Rugby Junior World Championship

This article deals with the World Junior Championship in rugby union ; for the World Cup without age restriction see Rugby Union World Cup .

The Rugby Junior World Cup has been held since 2008 as a tournament with 16 U20 national teams . The host is the International Rugby Board (IRB). From 2002 to 2007 two age groups were distinguished: U19 and U21 . The U19 World Cup has a longer tradition and has been held in an A and B division since 1995, with promotion and relegation between these groups.

history

U19 (1969 to 2007)

The original competition (for juniors U19) was launched in 1969 as a junior championship by the international rugby federation FIRA (ie Fédération Internationale de Rugby Amateur). Another common name was FIRA-Cup . According to the membership structure, only teams from Europe, Morocco and Tunisia initially took part. The venues were also limited to this geographical area until 1996. After the accession or association of countries from overseas, Argentina in particular proved to be very successful.

From 1992 the competition was jointly organized by the FIRA and the IRB and renamed the Rugby Junior World Championship .

An increasing number of members of the two world associations also led to a growing field of participants in the Junior World Championships, so that in 1995 a B and C group were introduced, with promotion and relegation between the divisions. The C group was split up for one year in 1996, a D group was formed in 1998, which in turn was subdivided in 1999. In 2000, C and D groups were abolished and the division into divisions A and B, which was valid until 2007, was established.

After the FIRA was constituted in 1999 as the European continental federation of the IRB and renamed FIRA-AER , it also withdrew from the organization of worldwide competitions: The Junior World Championship U19 was carried out from 2004 to 2007 by the IRB alone and from 2008 by the U20 WM replaced.

U21 (1995 to 2006)

The first U21 tournament took place in 1995, organized by SANZAR and UAR , a joint association of South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina. Participants were the four teams of the participating associations until 1997. England was invited for the first time in 1998, France, Scotland and Wales in 1999, so the tournament was held in two preliminary round groups of four teams. In 2000, Samoa and Tonga replaced the teams from France and Wales. In 2001 France returned and Ireland participated for the first time. In 2002 the International Rugby Board took over the organization and initially increased the number of participants to 16. In 2007 the competition was canceled and in 2008 it was replaced by the U20 World Junior Championship.

U20 (since 2008)

In June 2008 a world championship for juniors under 20 was held for the first time. It took place in Wales and will replace the previous U19 and U21 tournaments. 16 teams took part. The preliminary round was played in four groups of four teams each.

As "2. Division "is now the IRB Junior World Trophy , which was first held in April 2008 with eight teams in Chile.

FIRA Junior Championship

year	host	1st place	place 2	place 3
1969	Spain	France	Morocco	Romania
1970	France	France	Spain	Italy
1971	Morocco	France	Italy	Romania
1972	Italy	Romania	Spain	France
1973	Romania	Romania	France	Spain
1974	BR Germany	France	Romania	Spain
1975	Spain	France	Romania	Spain
1976	France	France	Romania	Spain
1977	Netherlands	France	Italy	Portugal
1978	Italy	France	Italy	Soviet Union
1979	Portugal	France	Soviet Union	Italy
1980	Tunisia	France	Italy	Spain
1981	Spain	France	Spain	Italy
1982	Switzerland	France	Italy	Spain
1983	Morocco	France	Italy	Spain
1984	Poland	Italy	France	Spain
1985	Belgium	France	Italy	Romania
1986	Romania	France	Italy	Romania
1987	BR Germany	Argentina	France	Soviet Union
1988	Yugoslavia	France	Soviet Union	Italy
1989	Portugal	Argentina	Soviet Union	France
1990	Italy	Argentina	France	Italy
1991	France	Argentina	France	Italy

Medal table 1969 to 1991

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	France	16	5	2
2	Argentina	4th	0	0
3	Romania	2	3	4th
4th	Italy	1	8th	6th
5	Spain	0	3	8th
6th	Soviet Union	0	3	2
7th	Morocco	0	1	0
8th	Portugal	0	0	1

Junior World Championships by FIRA and IRB

year	host	1st place	place 2	place 3
1992	Spain	France	Argentina	Italy
1993	France	Argentina	France	Italy
1994	France	South Africa	Italy	France
1995	Romania	France	Argentina	South Africa
1996	Italy	Argentina	Wales	Romania
1997	Argentina	Argentina	France	Wales
1998	France	Ireland	France	Argentina
1999	Wales	New Zealand	Wales	South Africa
2000	France	France	Australia	New Zealand
2001	Chile	New Zealand	France	Australia
2002	Italy	New Zealand	France	South Africa
2003	France	South Africa	New Zealand	France

Medal table 1992 to 2003

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	France	3	5	2
2	Argentina	3	2	1
3	New Zealand	3	1	1
4th	South Africa	2	0	3
5	Ireland	1	0	0
6th	Wales	0	2	1
7th	Italy	0	1	2
8th	Australia	0	1	1
9	Romania	0	0	1

Junior World Championship (U19) of the IRB

year	host	1st place	place 2	place 3
2004	South Africa	New Zealand	France	South Africa
2005	South Africa	South Africa	New Zealand	Australia
2006	Ver. Arab. Emirates	Australia	New Zealand	England
2007	Ireland	New Zealand	South Africa	Australia

Medal table 2004 to 2007

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	New Zealand	2	2	0
2	South Africa	1	1	1
2	Australia	1	0	2
4th	France	0	1	0
5	England	0	0	1

Unofficial Junior World Championship (U20)

year	host	1st place	place 2	place 3
1995	Argentina	New Zealand	0	0
1996	New Zealand	Australia	0	0
1997	Australia	Australia	0	0
1998	South Africa	Australia	0	0
1999	Argentina	South Africa	0	0
2000	New Zealand	New Zealand	0	0
2001	Australia	New Zealand	0	0

Junior World Championship (U21) of the IRB

year	host	1st place	place 2	place 3
2002	South Africa	South Africa	Australia	New Zealand
2003	England	New Zealand	Australia	Argentina
2004	Scotland	New Zealand	Ireland	South Africa
2005	Argentina	South Africa	Australia	New Zealand
2006	France	France	South Africa	New Zealand
2007	not carried out

Medal table 2002 to 2006

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	South Africa	2	1	1
2	New Zealand	2	0	3
3	France	1	0	0
4th	Australia	0	2	0
5	Ireland	0	1	0
6th	Argentina	0	0	1

Junior World Championship (U20) of the IRB

year	host	1st place	place 2	place 3
2008	Wales	New Zealand	England	South Africa
2009	Japan	New Zealand	England	South Africa
2010	Argentina	New Zealand	Australia	South Africa
2011	Italy	New Zealand	England	Australia
2012	South Africa	South Africa	New Zealand	Wales
2013	France	England	Wales	South Africa
2014	New Zealand	England	South Africa	New Zealand
2015	Italy	New Zealand	England	South Africa

Medal table from 2008

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	New Zealand	5	1	1
2	England	2	4th	0
3	South Africa	1	1	5
4th	Australia	0	1	1
4th	Wales	0	1	1

German successes

The best placements of the German youth team were in 1983 in Casablanca and in 1984 in Warsaw, both in fourth place.

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• FIRA-AER archive (as of December 4, 2004; but was not updated after 2002) ( Memento from December 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) The link does not lead directly to the goal: Archives \ Winners Room \ Junior Championship be selected!
• U21 World Cup on Wikipedia
• U21 World Cup on French Wikipedia

See also

• List of major rugby union competitions

Web links

• IRBU19.com
• IRBU21.com
• IRB / JWC