Wayne Barnes

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Wayne Barnes (2017)

Wayne Barnes (* 20th April 1979 in Gloucestershire , England ) is a British rugby union - referee . He is used regularly in the Premiership and in the European Rugby Champions Cup . He also directed numerous games at World Cups , the Six Nations , the Rugby Championship and the Pacific Nations Cup .

biography

Barnes went to school in Lydney and Monmouth , then studied law at the University of East Anglia . After graduation, he joined Lincoln's Inn in 2002 and worked as a barrister in the white-collar crime department . Barnes started playing rugby at the age of eight and began refereing at the age of 15. In 2001 he directed his first game in the Premiership , the highest English league. He was then the youngest referee to have ever been used by the Rugby Football Union in a top national game. He has been a professional referee since April 2005.

Barnes initially headed international matches at junior level, for example at the 2003 U-19 World Cup in Saint-Denis and the 2005 U-21 World Cup in Mendoza . In three games of the first edition of the Pacific Nations Cup , he was used for the first time in test matches in 2006 , and he made his Six Nations debut in 2007 in the game between Italy and France . During the 2007 World Cup , Barnes was one of three English referees. After making two controversial decisions in the quarter-final match between New Zealand and France, he received death threats on social media, condemned by both the International Rugby Board and New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark .

So far, Barnes has been the main referee in the English Championship finals five times, in the 2008/09 , 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2012/13 and 2014/15 seasons . In March 2015 he directed his 150th championship game of the English Premiership. At European level, he led the finals of the Heineken Cup 2009/10 and the European Challenge Cup 2011/12 . Occasionally it is also used in games of the French championship Top 14 and the rugby championship of the southern hemisphere. At the 2011 World Cup, he whistled, among other things, the game for third place.

Web links

Commons : Wayne Barnes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wayne Barnes. Fulcrum Chambers, accessed September 22, 2015 .
  2. ^ A b Wayne Barnes hits 150th Rugby Football Union , March 6, 2015, accessed September 22, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Death threats outrage refs chief. BBC Sport , October 8, 2007, accessed September 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Don't blame the ref - Clark. The New Zealand Herald , October 9, 2007, accessed September 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Barnes, Wayne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rugby union referee
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Gloucestershire