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Rugby union in Papua New Guinea

Index Rugby union in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea is a tier three rugby union playing nation. [1]

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australia national rugby union team

The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is controlled by Rugby Australia.

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Brendan Moon

Brendan Moon (born 10 October 1958) is a former Australian Rugby Union winger who played for the Queensland Reds in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

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National sport

A national sport is considered to be an intrinsic part of the culture of a nation.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.

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Papua New Guinea national rugby sevens team

The Papua New Guinea national rugby sevens team competes in the Oceania Sevens, where they finished third in 2009, and fourth in 2010, 2015 and 2016.

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Papua New Guinea national rugby union team

The Papua New Guinea national rugby union team, nicknamed the Pukpuks, (Tok Pisin for 'crocodilis'), played its first international in 1966, defeating Vanuatu 47-3.

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Papua New Guinea national under-20 rugby union team

The Papua New Guinea national under-20 rugby union team is for Papua New Guinean rugby union players aged 20 or under on January 1 of the year during which they are selected.

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Papua New Guinea Rugby Football Union

The Papua New Guinea Rugby Football Union, or Rugby PNG is the governing body for rugby union in Papua New Guinea.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby sevens

Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens), and originally known as Seven-a-side rugby is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40 minute halves.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams.

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Sport in Papua New Guinea

Sport in Papua New Guinea is an important part of the national culture.

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Tok Pisin

Tok Pisin is a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union_in_Papua_New_Guinea

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