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Harry Sayers offloads the ball for Hong Kong’s men in their pool game against Belgium at the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series in South Africa. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong rugby bosses to consult clubs ‘in coming weeks’ over tackle height

The move comes after the World Rugby Council unanimously backed a recommendation that unions take part in trials in community game

Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong rugby refs send kit to Rwanda, to take part in exchange programme

Tradition HKFC 10s

Samurai RFC Warriors add ex-Springbok Victor Matfield to squad for HKFC 1Os

Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong rugby’s stars of future ready for 55th New Year’s Day tournament

Under-19 and under-16 matches will pit Hong Kong-based talent against overseas-based counterparts in a return to the event’s traditional format.

Under-19 boys in action during the 2022 New Year’s Day Youth Rugby Tournament at Hong Kong Football Club. Photo: Ike Images
Under-19 boys in action during the 2022 New Year’s Day Youth Rugby Tournament at Hong Kong Football Club. Photo: Ike Images
Hong Kong China Rugby

Football Club win Fat Boys 10s, as charity event raises more than HK$300,000

Valley Dinosaurs take women’s title while Valley Knackered Nags triumph in men’s vets competition.

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Mental health

How Talking Mental is breaking city’s mental health barriers

Founder Aaron Stadlin-Robbie launches ‘Walk and Talk’ and ‘Talking Mental Hub’ to close gaps in resources and quality care – ‘anyone with a brain has mental health issues’.

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Scheme capitalising on Hong Kong women’s Olympics success to empower youth

‘I was always really scared to go to a court or park because there are a lot of guys there’ says one student as WISE HK rolls out coaching sessions, company visits and gender role discussions for city’s young women.

WISE HK (Women In Sport Empowered Hong Kong) coach and footballer for MLFA, Cecily Radford, teaching students from the Integrated Brilliant Education Limited (IBEL) school in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong. Photo: SCMP/ Dickson Lee
WISE HK (Women In Sport Empowered Hong Kong) coach and footballer for MLFA, Cecily Radford, teaching students from the Integrated Brilliant Education Limited (IBEL) school in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong. Photo: SCMP/ Dickson Lee
Hong Kong Sevens

Hong Kong Sevens cancelled again, to return in April 2022

‘We’re just not prepared to put the future of Hong Kong rugby in jeopardy,’ says Hong Kong Rugby Union chairman Patrick Donovan as the Covid-19 Delta variant and worldwide travel restrictions force their hand.

Hong Kong China Rugby

Obituary | ‘Renaissance Man’ Rowark a mentor to 1992 ‘band of brothers’

Stuart Krohn and Gary Cross, who played under Rowark in the early 90s, pay tribute to the Englishman for his leadership, inspiration and humour

Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong rugby mourns death of former coach Jim Rowark, 73

The Englishman who was arguably Hong Kong’s most successful sevens coach dies in the United Kingdom after a battle with cancer.

Jim Rowark shows his delight after Hong Kong win the Plate competition at the 1990 Hong Kong Sevens, beating Japan in the final. Photo: SCMP
Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong rugby player on 869km challenge for children’s charities

Hong Kong Football Club player John McCormick-Houston helps to double the club’s ‘HKFC Rugby to Hanoi’ virtual distance challenge, saying ‘it was a way to give back to the sport that has provided me with so much’.

Hong Kong Football Club senior rugby player John McCormick-Houston with his bike on Magazine Gap, Mid-levels to raise money for the HKFC Rugby to Hanoi charity programme in April. Photo: SCMP / Dickson Lee
Hong Kong Football Club senior rugby player John McCormick-Houston with his bike on Magazine Gap, Mid-levels to raise money for the HKFC Rugby to Hanoi charity programme in April. Photo: SCMP / Dickson Lee
Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong rugby an outlet for courageous kids

Two 11-year-old Nepali students are thankful to be outside with friends after a difficult few months as IBEL school head and Rugby Union chief community officer lay out plans to bridge social gaps.

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Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong rugby union leagues to resume in April – Union chief

Hong Kong Rugby Union CEO Robbie McRobbie is optimistic of an Easter weekend return for all domestic leagues and looks forward to return of rugby members in quarantine.

Hong Kong China Rugby

HKRU axes men’s 15s elite programme as Covid-19 crushes budgets

The Elite Rugby Programme, comprising 30 professional athletes and five staff, will not have their contracts renewed after June, but men’s and women’s sevens and the women’s 15s escape cutbacks.

Hong Kong men’s national 15s team before their Rugby World Cup 2019 Qualification Play-off against the Cook Islands at Hong Kong Football Club in 2018. Photo: Ike Images
Hong Kong China Rugby

‘Challenges unlike any in our 50 years’ – Hong Kong rugby chief

Patrick Donovan recalls city protests ‘literally days after’ his election in 2019, then being blindsided by the pandemic, but says domestic and international set-ups are trending in a ‘strong direction’.

The Hong Kong men’s Premiership 2020-21 season launch at Hong Kong Football Club in November. Rugby, like all sport, is still playing the waiting game. Photo: Ike Images
The Hong Kong men’s Premiership 2020-21 season launch at Hong Kong Football Club in November. Rugby, like all sport, is still playing the waiting game. Photo: Ike Images
World Rugby

Ada Milby elected Philippines Rugby’s first female president

The 37-year-old Asia Rugby and World Rugby senior member takes over from Rick Santos after a unanimous vote of approval from the board’s trustees.

Hong Kong Sevens

Hong Kong Sevens ‘makes no commercial sense’ unless stadium half full

Hong Kong Rugby Union CEO Robbie McRobbie ‘disappointed but relieved’ after World Rugby agrees to postpone marquee event, but says competing teams were ‘desperate’ to travel to the city had event gone ahead in April.

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Hong Kong Sevens

Hong Kong Sevens postponed again, this time to November 2021

Hong Kong Rugby Union and World Rugby mutually agree postponement from April to November, similar to this year’s Sevens, which was ultimately cancelled.

The South Stand in full flow at the Hong Kong Sevens in 2019 – the last time the event was staged. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
The South Stand in full flow at the Hong Kong Sevens in 2019 – the last time the event was staged. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
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Rugby community rallies round Nepali children who lost father in Yau Ma Tei fire

A mother and two children, still grieving after November blaze, offered a HK$12,000 helping hand from learning centre and rugby fund raisers – ‘It was really heart-warming’.

Wellness

Three Hong Kong cancer survivors on a mission to dispel men’s health stigma

Hong Kong rugby community’s Gareth Wilde, Terry Hart and James Swatton share their experiences of surviving cancer and the subsequent mental toil during Movember month.

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Hong Kong China Rugby

Survey finds 54 per cent of Hong Kong’s rugby players are Chinese

Survey of over 12,500 community members reveals average player is male, Chinese and lives in New Territories, while women only make up 28 per cent of overall participation.

Hong Kong women’s mainstay and USRC Tigers Ladies’ new starChong Ka-yan playing for USRC Tigers Ladies in a domestic league game against Valley Black Ladies last month. Photo: Ike Images
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