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2009 RBS Rugby Union Six Nations Championship

Welcome to the RBS Six Nations Championships, which is Europe’s top Rugby competition. It will take place from Saturday 7th February 2009 and conclude on Saturday 21st March 2009. For rugby fans the Championship warms up the winter months often with some of the most pulsating competitive matches imaginable.
The competing Nations are England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France and Italy. For the last five years the championship has been divided between Wales and France, with Wales being the current Champions who won the Grand Slam in 2008 under new coach Warren Gatland.

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Rugby Six Nations Championship - Records

Major team records Six nations champions:

Most points in a season: 229, England 2001

Most tries in a season: 29, England 2001

Biggest win: 80-23, England v Italy 2001

Most tries in a match: 12, Scotland v Wales 1887

Individual records:

Most tries in a match:

05 - George Lindsay SCO v WAL, 1887

Most conversions in a match:

09 - Jonny Wilkinson ENG v ITA, 2001

Most penalties in a match:

07 - Simon Hodgkinson ENG v WAL, 199107 - Rob Andrew ENG v SCO, 1995

07 - Jonny Wilkinson ENG v FRA, 1999

07 - Neil Jenkins WAL v ITA, 200007 - Gerald Merceron FRA v ITA, 2002

07 - Chris Paterson SCO v WAL, 2007

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Six Nations Rugby Championship - Results

Overall England has the most Home Nations, Five Nations, and Six Nations tournament victories with 25 (excluding 10 shared victories). Next is Wales with 24 (excluding 11 shared). The only country not to have won the competition is Italy, with no wins from its nine tournaments.

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Six Nations Championship - Current venues

The 2008 Rugby 6 Nations matches were held in the following stadiums:


England: Twickenham, London
France: Stade de France, Saint-Denis (near Paris) Ireland: Croke Park, Dublin
Italy: Stadio Flaminio, Rome
Scotland: Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Wales: Millennium Stadium, Cardiff


Croke Park is not the normal home of Irish rugby; it is the flagship stadium of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), which until 2005 prohibited its venues from being used for soccer or rugby. Ireland's traditional home, Lansdowne Road, will be unavailable during 2007 or 2008 due to the construction of a completely new stadium on the site of what had become an increasingly run-down structure. The all-Ireland governing body for rugby union, the Irish Rugby Football Union, reached an agreement with the GAA to allow Ireland to play their 6 Nations fixtures at Croke Park in 2007. The agreement will most likely continue until the new Lansdowne Road opens, projected to be in time for the 2010 Six Nations.

Triple Crown Trophy

Despite the history of the Triple Crown there had never been a permanent trophy produced until 2006.
The Trophy is a silver dish measuring 42cm wide and 5cm deep and weighing a hefty three kilos. The Trophy was produced by Hamilton and Inches of Edinburgh and took over four months to make.

Triple Crown history:

• The new Triple Crown Trophy was presented for the first time in 2006
• The Triple Crown has been won 59 times
• The four Home Unions have been competing against each other for 125 years, since the first international between England and Wales in 1882
• The Triple Crown was first won in 1893 when Wales became the first holders of the then mythical trophy

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Six Nations Rugby Championship Trophy

Each year, the RBS Six Nations Championship Trophy is presented to the winning team. Below are some interesting facts regarding the trophy:

The idea of a Trophy for the Six Nations Championship was first thought of by the Earl of Westmorland, and was first presented in 1993 to France (the winners that season). It is held in trust by the Six Nations Championship Trophy Trust.

The Trophy is made of 200 ounces of sterling silver and is insured for £55,000. It was designed by James Brent-Ward, a silversmith designer, and made by eight craftsmen at the London silversmith firm William Comyns. The inside of the Trophy was originally silver, but it became so tarnished from repeated fillings with champagne that it has been lined with 22 carat gold to protect it.

There are fifteen sides to the Trophy, representing each player, and three handles representing each official ie the referee and two touch judges. Around the wooden base of the Trophy is the emblem of each of the six national unions.

The handle, or finial, on the lid is interchangeable and represents the current champions. The current champions are Wales so at the moment the finial is the one decorated with Prince of Wales' feathers. The finials of the five challenging teams are kept in a hidden drawer in the plinth throughout the Championship.

The capacity of the Trophy is exactly five bottles of champagne, one for each of the original Five Nations, and the trophy has a lip at the rim, designed so that it is easy to drink from.

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