{"id":302496,"date":"2025-11-23T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302496\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T00:52:12","slug":"marx-crowned-mens-player-of-year-suaalii-misses-out-on-breakthrough-player-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302496\/","title":{"rendered":"Marx crowned men’s player of year, Suaalii misses out on breakthrough player award"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa hooker Malcolm Marx has been crowned the men’s World Rugby Player of the Year, moments after helping the Springboks to beat Ireland 24-13 in Dublin.<\/p>\n

Marx won the award for the first time, and seven years after his only other nomination.<\/p>\n

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Also shortlisted were Boks teammates Pieter-Steph du Toit, the award winner in 2019 and 2024, and Ox Nche, the first prop to be nominated in the award’s 24-year history.<\/p>\n

Also nominated was France winger Louis Bielle-Biarrey, whose eight tries in the Six Nations were the most in a single tournament in 100 years.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Marx was the joint leading try-scorer with four in the Rugby Championship that South Africa won. His five Test tries this year improved his record to 26 in 86 Tests; the only forward in South Africa’s all-time top 10.<\/p>\n

He’s also the fourth Springbok to win the men’s award after Du Toit, Schalk Burger (2004) and Bryan Habana (2007).<\/p>\n

New Zealand lock Fabian Holland was named the breakthrough player of the year, with Wallaby Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii missing out.<\/p>\n

Ex-All Blacks mentor John Mitchell was Coach of the Year after guiding England to Women’s Rugby World Cup success, though that award was announced in September.<\/p>\n

Canada’s Sophie de Goede took the World Rugby Women’s 15s Player of the Year, and the breakthrough player went to Braxton Sorensen-McGee of New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa hooker Malcolm Marx has been crowned the men’s World Rugby Player of the Year, moments after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,2995],"class_list":["post-302496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-springboks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302496","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=302496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}