{"id":292226,"date":"2025-11-18T09:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/292226\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:01:15","slug":"bok-quartet-nominated-for-world-rugby-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/292226\/","title":{"rendered":"Bok quartet nominated for World Rugby Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Springbok quartet were announced as nominees in the World Rugby Men&#8217;s 15s Player of the Year and World Rugby Men&#8217;s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year categories on Tuesday. The winners will be revealed on Saturday, 22 November.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Du Toit, who last year became the first South African in history to win the World Men&#8217;s 15s Player of the Year Award twice, after also walking away with the title in 2019, was nominated for World Rugby\u2019s most decorated title once again, along with Marx, Nche and France\u2019s Louis Bielle-Biarrey.<\/p>\n<p>This represents the second time Marx has been nominated for the award, as he was also among the nominees in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Hooker, meanwhile, was nominated as one of four players in the World Rugby Men&#8217;s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year category, with New Zealand\u2019s Fabian Holland, England\u2019s Henry Pollock and Australian Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to congratulate Pieter-Steph, Malcolm, Ox and Ethan for being recognised among the best players in the world,\u201d said Mr Alexander.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have three of the four nominees for Men\u2019s 15s Player of the Year from South Africa, as well as Ethan in the Breakthrough category, is a testament to the quality of our players on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have all performed exceptionally well this season and deserve this recognition. On behalf of SA Rugby and the entire country, I want to express how proud we are of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish them well ahead of Saturday\u2019s announcement. Regardless of the outcome, being nominated is already a remarkable achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other South Africans who received nominations for the Men\u2019s 15s Player of the Year Award in the last 11 years are Willie le Roux and Duane Vermeulen (both in 2014), Faf de Klerk (2018), and Lukhanyo Am (in 2022).<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Du Toit, only two other South Africans have walked away with top honours, Schalk Burger in 2004, and Bryan Habana in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>World Rugby will also announce its Dream Team of the Year on Tuesday, 25 November.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/250823-ox-nche-springboks.jpg\" alt=\"Ox Nche.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Ox Nche.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251004-malcolm-marx-springboks.jpg\" alt=\"Malcolm Marx.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Malcolm Marx.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251118-pieter-steph-du-toit-springboks-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pieter-Steph du Toit.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Pieter-Steph du Toit.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251118-ethan-hooker-springboks.jpg\" alt=\"Ethan Hooker.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Ethan Hooker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Springbok quartet were announced as nominees in the World Rugby Men&#8217;s 15s Player of the Year and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-292226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}