At a particular World Rugby awards ceremony on Sunday in Monaco, Pieter-Steph du Toit was deservedly named the 15s Men’s Player of the Year, nevertheless it couldn’t be ignored that Rassie Erasmus by some means missed out on the Coach of the Year.

Rassie had led the Springboks to 11 out of 13 wins in 2024 (85% win file), guaranteeing they completed the 12 months prime of the world rankings, whereas the staff additionally received the Rugby Championship for the primary time in a ‘full-round’ competitors.

However, in the long run, unheralded France Sevens coach Jérôme Daret was named World Rugby’s Coach of the Year for 2024 after main the staff’s gold medal-winning effort on the Paris Olympics.

According to World Rugby, the award “recognised his efforts in ending a 19-year wait for an SVNS title Cup and steering France to Olympic gold in July”.

Daret is the primary sevens coach to obtain this award.

Such a weird determination unsurprisingly led to a response of shock and disbelief from most social media customers, lots of whom additionally identified how Erasmus had change into an ‘enemy’ of World Rugby for his outspoken nature and former controversies that noticed him twice obtain a ban from the governing physique.

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Meanwhile, South Africa’s Pieter-Steph du Toit and England’s Ellie Kildunne had been named World Rugby Men’s and Women’s 15s Player of the Year, respectively.

The Springbok flanker wins the celebrated accolade for the second time, having additionally been named World Rugby Men’s 15s Player of the Year in 2019, and joins a really choose group of gamers which have received this Award greater than as soon as in All Blacks Dan Carter, Richie McCaw and Beauden Barrett.

Fullback Ellie Kildunne claims the coveted prize for the primary time after enjoying a key function within the Red Roses’ excellent 2024 marketing campaign that noticed them win all 10 matches performed and safe the Women’s Six Nations and WXV 1 titles.

In a 12 months that noticed rugby sevens’ coming of age on the Olympic Games Paris 2024 and first SVNS Grand Final in Madrid, Australia’s Maddison Levi and France’s Antoine Dupont acquired the World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year awards in partnership with HSBC for his or her performances and achievements on the pitch.

It is a case of third time fortunate for Levi after her nominations in 2022 and 2023, and recognising her unimaginable 12 months which noticed the Australian set a brand new file for many tries in a single Olympic Games (14) after scoring 69 tries on the HSBC SVNS 2024, the second-highest determine in males’s or girls’s sequence historical past.

The prolific finisher turns into the third Australian recipient after Emilee Cherry and Charlotte Caslick.

French star Dupont, who helped France win their first HSBC SVNS titles since 2007 in Los Angeles, Madrid in addition to Olympic gold on house soil in Paris turns into the primary male participant in historical past to be named World Rugby Player of the Year in each sevens and 15s (2021 and 2024).