Eire head coach Andy Farrell has been nominated for World Rugby’s coach of the 12 months award after seeing his workforce rise to turn out to be world primary.
Farrell, who masterminded Eire’s gorgeous Check sequence triumph in opposition to New Zealand in July, is amongst 4 contenders for the honour.
He’s joined by France coach Fabien Galthie, England ladies’s head coach Simon Middleton and New Zealand ladies’s supremo Wayne Smith.
The winner shall be revealed on Sunday.
England ladies gained 30 successive Assessments beneath Middleton’s course, though that run led to a World Cup last defeat in opposition to New Zealand on Saturday.
Galthie, in the meantime, oversaw France’s first Six Nations Grand Slam since 2010 earlier this 12 months.
Eire additionally cleared the path for nominations for the lads’s participant of the 12 months. Josh van der Flier and Johnny Sexton have each been put ahead after taking part in a key position within the success of Farrell’s aspect.
France scrum-half Antoine Dupont, who gained the award in 2021, and South Africa’s Lukhanyo Am full the lads’s quartet.
World Cup winners New Zealand have probably the most representatives for the ladies’s participant of the 12 months with centre Ruahei Demant and wing Portia Woodman each nominated.
England’s Alex Matthews, who helped the Pink Roses end in second place on the World Cup, France’s Laure Sansus and Sophie de Goede of Canada are additionally in rivalry.
Arundell up for breakthrough award
Henry Arundell’s spectacular arrival on the worldwide stage with England has seen him nominated for World Rugby males’s breakthrough participant of the 12 months award.
The London Irish again scored a attempt simply six minutes into his Check debut when England confronted Australia throughout their summer time tour.
Eire wing Mack Hansen and hooker Dan Sheehan have additionally been nominated, along with thrilling Italy again Ange Capuozzo.
Within the ladies’s breakthrough class, England prop Maud Muir is among the many contenders.
Muir featured in all 13 of England’s video games this 12 months, together with a late substitute look through the World Cup last in Auckland.
In the meantime, Eire prop Linda Djougang is amongst these nominated for the ladies’s attempt of the 12 months, for an excellent workforce rating in opposition to Wales.
Eire’s Amee Leigh Murphy Crowe is among the many contenders of the ladies’s sevens participant of the 12 months award, with compatriot Terry Kennedy on the shortlist for the lads’s award.
The World Rugby awards ceremony takes place in Monaco.
