Which year has the 1st world cup been held for rugby union?

Question

Which year has the 1st world cup been held for rugby union?

Answer 1

The 1st world cup was in 1987 New Zealand beat France by 29-9 3 tries to 1.The next world cup was in 1991 where Austrailia beat England 12-6 1 try to 0.The 3rd world cup had an extremly close finalSouth Africa won it 15-12 over New Zealand but it was 9-9 after normal time so they had to go to extra time where stransky hit a drop goal to win it.The next world cup was in 1999 the Australians won it for the 2nd time 35-12 over France.The most recent world cup was in 2004 where England won over Australia.The Next world cup will be this year held in France and the 1 after that in 2011 in New Zealand.

Answer 2

The 1st rugby union world cup was held in 1987, when it was won by New Zealand. It's taken place every 4 years since then, with the next one starting in Sept of this year.

Answer 3

1987...

Answer 4

The first Rugby World Cup was hosted by both New Zealand and Australia in 1987, and was won by New Zealand. Seven of the 16 places were automatically filled by the International Rugby Football Board members – New Zealand, Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France – with South Africa unable to compete because of the international sports boycott due to apartheid. There was no qualification process to fill the remaining nine spots. Instead invitations were sent out to Argentina, Fiji, Italy, Canada, Romania, Tonga, Japan, Zimbabwe and the United States.

On the whole the tournament witnessed fairly one-sided matches, the seven IRFB members proving too strong for the other teams. Half of the 24 matches across the four pools saw one team score 40 or more points. It is therefore no surprise that five of the seven highest-scoring Rugby World Cup matches were witnessed during this tournament, a statistic that is echoed in the ‘most points by an individual’ and ‘most tries by a team’ statistics. New Zealand won the final against France at Eden Park in Auckland by 29 points to 9. The New Zealand team was captained by David Kirk, substituting for an injured Andy Dalton, and included such rugby greats as; Sean Fitzpatrick, John Kirwan, Grant Fox and Michael Jones.