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The Sanix World Rugby Youth Invitational Tournament is a prestigious international rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

tournament for 15-a-side youth teams which is held every year during the Golden Week holidays (April 29 - May 5th/6th) in Fukuoka prefecture

Fukuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka.- History :Fukuoka Prefecture includes the former provinces of Chikugo, Chikuzen, and Buzen....

, Japan. Participation is by invitation only, and the overseas schools selected by their respective unions to represent their country are generally expected to be of a high standard and among the top five in each country. The event is hosted by the Japan Rugby Football Union

Japan Rugby Football Union

The Japan Rugby Football Union is the governing body for rugby union in Japan. It was formed November 30, 1926 and is currently one of only two federations from a "Tier 2" country with a seat on the International Rugby Board executive council, the sport's international governing body...

and supported by various local bodies including the Kyushu RFU, the Sanix Sports Foundation and Munakata City.

The Global Arena

Global Arena

Global Arena is a sports facility in Munakata city, Fukuoka, Kyūshū, Japan. It was set up by the President of the Sanix company Mr. Munemasa and includes various sports grounds for rugby union, soccer, tennis etc. Also there are indoor facilities for sports such as kendo, judo and tennis...

in Munakata, Fukuoka

Munakata, Fukuoka

is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, in the north Chikuzen region of the prefecture.As of April 1, 2008, the city has an estimated population of 94,660 and the density of 791 persons per km 2...

on the island of Kyūshū

Kyushu

is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands. Its alternate ancient names include , , and . The historical regional name is referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands....

is the venue for this tournament. In 2000 the first tournament was contested by 11 Japanese and five foreign high school teams from various countries. (The tournament expanded from 16 to 20 schools in 2009, thus increasing in both size and importance.) It is a unique competition in world rugby for high schools, and is almost a "mini World Cup". The idea was devised and initially funded by the Sanix company president Mr. Munemasa. Sanix still provides about half the substantial costs for overseas teams to participate.

Three or four of the Japanese teams are from the local area Kyūshū

Kyushu

, where high school rugby is particularly strong. The rest are from elsewhere in Japan. A Scottish pipe band is a regular fixture, though there was no band in 2007. However Dollar Academy

Dollar Academy

Dollar Academy was founded in 1818, which makes it the oldest co-educational day and boarding school in the world. The open campus occupies a site in the centre of the thriving town of Dollar in Central Scotland, less than 40 minutes drive from the two main Scottish cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh...

has participated twice as Scotland's sole representative so far in the tournament in 2000 and 2004, and George Watson's College pipe band provided background music in 2008 and 2009. One Italian team (Istituto Casteller) took part in 2002, and Camarthenshire College from Wales has also participated. No Argentinian teams have yet participated, but this will surely happen in due course.

Foreign Teams

(9 Overseas teams)
Carson Graham Secondary School

Carson Graham Secondary School

Carson Graham Secondary is a public high school in North Vancouver, British Columbia part of School District 44 North Vancouver.In 2009 Balmoral Junior Secondary School closed and the building on Mahon became the second campus to Carson Graham, to hold the grade 8, 9 and 10 classes while Carson...

(Canada, 3rd time),
Ivybridge Community College

Ivybridge Community College

Ivybridge Community College is a state funded secondary school in Ivybridge, Devon, England. It is apparently the second-largest secondary school in Devon. Since 2010, Rob Haring has been the principal. It was awarded a sports specialism in 1997, a specialism in Science in 2004 and a third...

(England, 3rd time),
Dax, Landes

Dax, Landes

Dax is a commune in Aquitaine in south-western France, sub-prefecture of the Landes department.It is particularly famous as a spa, specialising in mud treatment for rheumatism and similar ailments....

High School (France),
Baekshin High School (Korea),
Prairiewood High School (Australia),
De La Salle College

De La Salle College, Mangere East

De La Salle College is an integrated Catholic secondary boys' school Auckland, New Zealand. Established in 1953 by the De La Salle Brothers, it continues to educate young men in the Catholic faith and Christian values. Students are encouraged to develop every aspect of their person and a strong...

(New Zealand),
Hamilton Boys' High School

Hamilton Boys' High School

Hamilton Boys' High School is a boys' secondary school in Hamilton, New Zealand. The school was established as Hamilton High School in 1903 but was later split into separate boys' and girls' schools. The school crest features a lion, sash and star, and bears the motto "Sapiens Fortunam Fingit Sibi"...

(New Zealand),
Tonga High School

Tonga High School

Tonga High School is a selective state-owned co-ed secondary school located in Nukualofa, Tonga. The school educates students aged 11 to 18 .-History:...

(Tonga),
Glenwood High School

Glenwood High School (South Africa)

Glenwood High School is a semi-private high school for boys located in Glenwood, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.-Establishment:Formed in 1910 and originally known as the Day Continuation School, the name was changed to the Durban Technical High School in 1916 by which time the school had 150...

(South Africa, 2008 champions)

Truro college

Truro College

Truro College is a tertiary institution located in Truro, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. Following an exchange of governing bodies, Truro College merged with Penwith College in April 2008—the combined institution is known as Truro and Penwith College, though the sites retain their original names...

(England)
Ireland sent no representative team this year for financial reasons. Two NZ teams participated because they drew the relevant national final.

Japanese Teams

(11 Japanese teams)
Ryutsu Keizai Univ. Kashiwa High School,
Kokugakuin Univ. Kugayama High School,
Kyoto Seisho High School,
Fushimi Technical High School,
Josho Keiko Gakuen High School,
Josho Gakuen High School,
Gose Industrial High School,
Tenri High School,
Saga Technical High School

Saga Technical High School

Saga Prefectural Saga Technical High School , also known as Saga Kogyo, is a Technical High School located in Saga City, Saga Prefecture, Japan.- Curriculum :Saga Kogyo offers its students technical courses...

,
Oita Maizuru High School,
Higashi Fukuoka High School

The Tournament

The tournament in 2009 consisted of two stages. There were five pools of four teams each in the first stage, and then a final knock-out tournament for the best eight teams, with play-offs to decide the final ranking from 1st to 20th. Games in the pool stage had 25-minute halves, but 30-minute halves were played in the final stage. They were played on three fields: on grass in the main stadium and within the athletics track, and on an artificial field newly built.

Pool A: Glenwood, Higashi Fukuoka, Tonga, Tenri

Pool B: Ivybridge, Josho, Baekshin, Saga

Pool C: De La Salle, Gose, Fushimi, Kokugakuin Kugayama

Pool D: Dax Landes, Josho Keiko, Hamilton, Ryutsu Keizai

Pool E: Prairiewood, Kyoto Seisho, Carson Graham, Oita Maizuru

Best Eight (Final tournament): Ivybridge, Hamilton, Glenwood, De La Salle, Prairiewood, Josho, Dax Landes, Higashi Fukuoka

Semi-finals: Higashi Fukuoka 26 De La Salle 25; Glenwood 10 Dax Landes 17

Third place play-off: De La Salle 10 Glenwood 37

Final

Higashi Fukuoka 30 Dax Landes 38

This is the first time a French team has won the tournament. Higashi Fukuoka was in the final for the third time, and would have been the first Japanese team to win the tournament if they had won.

Final Order/Ranking

1. Dax Landes, 2. Higashi Fukuoka, 3. Glenwood, 4. De La Salle, 5. Hamilton, 6. Ivybridge, 7. Josho Gakuen, 8. Prairiewood, 9. Gose, 10. Kokugakuin Kugayama, 11. Kyoto Seisho, 12. Oita Maizuru, 13. Tonga, 14. Josho Keiko, 15. Tenri, 16. Saga Technical, 17. Ryutsu Keizai, 18. Fushimi Technical, 19. Carson Graham, 20. Baekshin

Foreign Teams

St Edmund's College, Canberra

St Edmund's College, is a private, Catholic, day school for boys, located in Griffith, a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.The college was established in 1954 by the Christian Brothers as St Edmund's War Memorial College...

(Australia), Gisborne Boys' High School

Gisborne Boys' High School

Gisborne Boys' High School is a boys' secondary school situated in Gisborne, New Zealand that was originally founded as a Co-Ed school in 1909 and was known as Gisborne High School. In 1956 the school became Gisborne Boys High School when the original school was split into two single-sex...

(New Zealand), Sinclair Secondary School

Sinclair Secondary School

Sinclair Secondary School is located in Whitby, Ontario, Canada within the Durham District School Board. It serves students in grades nine through twelve in the North Whitby area. It is also the Whitby site for students in gifted education, French immersion, and special education programs...

(Canada), Tarbes

Tarbes

Tarbes is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.It is part of the historical region of Gascony. It is the second largest metropolitan area of Midi-Pyrénées, with 110,000 inhabitants....

High School (France), Gyeong High School (Korea), Ratu Kadavulevu School

Ratu Kadavulevu School

Ratu Kadavulevu School is a school in Lodoni, Fiji. It has some 625 students and claims to be the largest boarding school in the country. Its students are multiracial, but predominantly Fijian....

(Fiji), Glenwood High School

Glenwood High School (South Africa)

(South Africa), St Benedict's School

St Benedict's School

St Benedict's School is a co-educational independent Roman Catholic school situated in Ealing, West London. The school is part of Ealing Abbey and is governed by the Abbot and monks of Ealing. As the only day school of the English Houses of the English Benedictine Congregation, the school does not...

(England)

Japanese Teams

Ryutsu Keizai Univ. Kashiwa High School (Chiba), Toin Gakuen High School (Kanagawa), Fushimi Technical High School (Kyoto), Jyosho Keiko Gakuen High School (Osaka), Onomichi High School (Hiroshima), Nagasaki Hokuyodai High School (Nagasaki), Saga Technical High School (Saga), Higashi Fukuoka High School (Fukuoka)

The Tournament

The tournament consists of four pools, each with four Schools/Countries. Each game was played with 25-minute halves;

Pool A: Gyeong Sang, St. Edmunds College, Onomichi High School, Higashi Fukuoka High School

Pool B: Ratu Kadavulevu School, Gisborne Boys' High School, Jyosho Keiko
Gakuen High School, Nagasaki Hokuyodai
High School

Pool C: Sinclair Secondary School, Tarbes High School, Toin Gakuen
High School, Saga Technical
High School

Pool D: St. Benedict's
School, Glenwood
High School, Ryutsu Keizai Univ.
Kashiwa High
School, Fushimi Technical
High School

Final

The final was contested between Glenwood High School and Tarbes High School, with Glenwood winning easily, 39-0.

Final Order/Ranking

1. Glenwood, 2. Tarbes, 3. Gisborne, 4. St. Edmund's Coll. Canberra, 5. St. Benedict's, 6. Higashi Fukuoka, 7. Saga Technical, 8. Ratu Kadavulevu, 9. Josho Keiko, 10. Fushimi Technical, 11. Onomichi, 12. Toin Gakuen, 13. Ryutsu Keizai, 14. Nagasaki Hokuyoudai, 15. Gyeong San, 16. Sinclair

Participating teams

Eight foreign, eight Japanese teams

Carson Graham Secondary School

Carson Graham Secondary School

(Canada), Tarbes

Tarbes

HS (France), Saint Michael's College

St. Michael's College, Dublin

St Michael's College is a Catholic boys' school, located on Ailesbury Road in Dublin 4, Ireland. It was founded in 1944 by the Holy Ghost Fathers....

(Ireland), Gyeong San HS (South Korea), Westfields Sports High School

Westfields Sports High School

Westfields Sports High School is Australia's first Sports High school. It is a coeducational school in Fairfield West, Sydney, Australia...

(Australia), Christchurch Boys High School (New Zealand), Dr. E.G. Jansen High School (South Africa), Avele College (Samoa), Toin Gakuen HS (Kanagawa), Fushimi Technical HS (Kyoto), Osaka Technical HS (Osaka), Tokai University Gyosei HS (Osaka), Oita Maizuru HS (Oita), Nagasaki Kita HS (Nagasaki), Saga Technical HS

Saga Technical High School

(Saga), Higashi Fukuoka HS (Fukuoka)

The tournament starts with four pools of four teams which all play each other. The pools for 2007 were:

Group A: Carson Graham, Christchurch Boys, Toin, Oita Maizuru

Group B: Tarbes, Westfields, Osaka Technical, Saga

Group C: St Michaels, Avele, Tokai, Fushimi Technical

Group D: Gyeong San, E.G. Jansen, Higashi Fukuoka, Nagasaki Kita

After this each team plays two matches in the final tournament. The top teams of each pool play to decide the final order 1-4, the second-placed teams play to decide the final order 5-8, the third-placed teams play to decide the final order 9-12 and the fourth-placed teams play to decide the final order 13-16.

Final Order/Ranking

1. Westfields, 2. Higashi Fukuoka, 3. Christchurch Boys, 4. Avele, 5. Tarbes, 6. E.G. Jansen, 7. Tokai, 8. Oita Maizuru, 9. Saga, 10. Toin, 11. St Michael's, 12. Nagasaki Kita, 13. Fushimi, 14. Osaka, 15. Carson Graham, 16. Gyeong San

Seventh Annual Tournament (2006)

The 2006 competition was held from April 29th to May 5, 2006. (May 1st was the day off as usual.) Bob Dwyer

Bob Dwyer

Bob Dwyer is an Australian rugby union coach.Educated at Sydney Boys High School, he coached Sydney club Randwick to four Sydney championship wins before becoming Australia's national team coach. He coached Australia from 1982-83, and again from 1988...

was one of the invited guests, along with Tony Philp the Waikato

Waikato Rugby Union

The Waikato Rugby Union is the official governing body of rugby union in the Waikato area in the North Island of New Zealand. Its senior representative team competes in the ITM Cup , and won the inaugural Air New Zealand Cup in 2006.Waikato Rugby Union was founded in 1921...

prop newly arrived in Japan as the IRB High Performance adviser responsible for improving the skills of the top players.

Participating teams

Christchurch Boys High School (NZ), Ivybridge Community College

Ivybridge Community College

(England), Marist College Canberra

Marist College Canberra

Marist College Canberra is an all-boys independent Catholic school school founded in 1968. The college is situated on 15 hectares and located in the Australian Capital Territory, Canberra. The college provides boys from years 4-12 with a well-rounded education. Founded by Marist Brothers, it...

(Australia), Lycee Bellevue (France), Monument High School (South Africa), Pai Chai High School (Korea), Tonga College (Tonga), Christian Brothers College

Christian Brothers College, Cork

Christian Brothers College, Cork is a fee-paying Catholic school under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust in Cork, Ireland....

(Ireland) and the following Japanese teams: Nagasaki Kita H.S., Toin Gakuen H.S., Saga Technical H.S.

Saga Technical High School

, Tokai University Gyosei H.S., Ōita Maizuru H.S., Osaka Technical H.S., Higashi Fukuoka H.S., Fushimi Technical H.S

Final

Result: Christchurch Boys 34 Monument 20

Final Order/Ranking

1. Christchurch Boys, 2. Monument, 3. Gyosei, 4. Higashi Fukuoka, 5. Ivybridge, 6. Marist, 7. Oita Maizuru, 8. Tonga, 9. Toin Gakuen, 10. Osaka Tech., 11. Christian Brothers, 12. Lycee Bellevue, 13. Nagasaki Kita, 14. Saga Tech., 15. Fushimi Tech., 16. Pai Chai

Past Champions and Runners-up

After ten tournaments the winning countries are: New Zealand (4 times), South Africa (3 times), Australia (2 times), France (1 time). The second-placed countries are: Japan (4), South Africa (2), Australia (1), France (1), New Zealand (1), Tonga (1)

2009 Dax Landes High School (France), Higashi Fukuoka High School (Japan)

2008 Glenwood High School

Glenwood High School (South Africa)

(South Africa), Tarbes High School (France)

2007 Westfields Sports High School

Westfields Sports High School

Westfields Sports High School is Australia's first Sports High school. It is a coeducational school in Fairfield West, Sydney, Australia...

(Australia), Higashi Fukuoka High School (Japan)

2006 Christchurch Boys High School (New Zealand), Monument High School (South Africa)

2005 Christchurch Boys High School (New Zealand), The Southport School

The Southport School

The Southport School , is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in Southport, a suburb on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia....

(Australia)

2004 Rotorua Boys' High School

Rotorua Boys' High School

Rotorua Boys' High School is a state school educating boys from Year 9 to Year 13. It is situated just outside of the Rotorua CBD at the intersection of Old Taupo Road and Pukuatua Street in Rotorua, New Zealand....

(New Zealand), Higashi Fukuoka High School (Japan)

2003 Rotorua Boys' High School

Rotorua Boys' High School

(New Zealand), Tonga College (Tonga)

2002 Boland Agricultural College (South Africa), Sendai Ikuei High School (Japan)

2001 Grey College, Bloemfontein

Grey College, Bloemfontein

Grey College is a public school for boys located in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa, one of the 23 elite, historically significant and prestigious Milner Schools...

(South Africa), St. Peter's College

St Peter's College, Auckland

St Peter's College is a Catholic college for year 7 to 13 boys . The school, located in Auckland, is one of the largest Catholic schools in New Zealand and is an integrated school under an integration agreement entered into by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland and the Government of New Zealand in...

(New Zealand)

2000 The King's School, Sydney

The King's School, Sydney

The King's School is an independent Anglican, day and boarding school for boys in North Parramatta in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831, it is Australia's oldest school and forms one of the nine "Great Public Schools" of New South Wales. Situated within a site, Gowan Brae,...

(Australia), Paul Roos Gymnasium

Paul Roos Gymnasium

Paul Roos Gymnasium is a government school for boys in the town of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa, founded in 1866 as Stellenbosch Gymnasium....

(South Africa)

External links

Tournament Official Website (English) with downloadable pdfs of results

2007 Sanix World Youth TournamentWebsite (from the JRFU, in Japanese)
Sanix World Youth Tournament - Map To The Global Arena (in Japanese)
Global Arena (in Japanese)

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Foreign Teams

Japanese Teams

The Tournament

Final

Final Order/Ranking

Foreign Teams

Japanese Teams

The Tournament

Final

Final Order/Ranking

Participating teams

Final Order/Ranking

Seventh Annual Tournament (2006)

Participating teams

Final

Final Order/Ranking

Past Champions and Runners-up

See also

External links