All the attention for Junior rugby has been focussed, quite rightly, on the Junior World Championship being held in Cape Town, which culminates in the final tonight. However, let’s not forget the smaller rugby playing nations.

The IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy is currently taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

The IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy (JWRT) kicked off in Salt Lake City on the 18th of June and runs until the 30th of June, when the final will be played.

This competition provides a stage on which the junior teams from some of the smaller rugby nations can compete. There are eight teams taking part, being split into two pools of four countries each AS follows:

Pool A:

Chile, Russia, Tonga, USA

Pool B:

Canada, Georgia, Japan, Zimbabwe

 

The first round of games in each pool have already been played, on the 18th of June, while the second round of games take place today, 22nd June (or tonight SA time).

Chile, USA, Japan and Georgia won their first games with Chile currently leading Pool A on 5 points and Japan leading Pool B on 5 points.

Full list of fixtures and results thus far (from the IRB website):

Pool A

18 Jun, 14:00 Chile

53-19

Russia Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah
18 Jun, 18:00 USA

22-11

Tonga Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah
22 Jun, 16:00 Tonga

Russia Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah
22 Jun, 18:00 USA

Chile Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah
26 Jun, 16:00 Tonga

Chile Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah
26 Jun, 18:00 USA

Russia Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Pool B

18 Jun, 12:00 Japan

39-36

Zimbabwe Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah
18 Jun, 16:00 Georgia

31-17

Canada Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah
22 Jun, 12:00 Georgia

Zimbabwe Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah
22 Jun, 14:00 Japan

Canada Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah
26 Jun, 12:00 Canada

Zimbabwe Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah
26 Jun, 14:00 Japan

Georgia Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

7th Place Play-Off

30 Jun, 12:00 4th Pool A

4th Pool B Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

5th Place Play-Off

30 Jun, 14:00 3rd Pool A

3rd Pool B Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

3rd Place Play-Off

30 Jun, 16:00 2nd Pool A

2nd Pool B Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Final

30 Jun, 18:00 1st Pool A

1st Pool B Murray Rugby Park Stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah

It is very encouraging to see that such a tournament exists and hopefully this helps to grow the wonderful game of rugby through the world. We will try to keep things updated as far as possible as the tournament progresses.

3 Responses to IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy

  • 1

    2nd round of JWRT pool games results: Tonga 62/7 Russia, USA 54/25 Chile, Georgia 43/7 Zimbabwe, Japan 38/35 Canada

  • 2

    USA and Japan top their pools

  • 3

    USA, Japan and Georgia remain unbeaten in tournament so far, Russia, Canada, Zimbabwe have not won a game yet.

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