{"id":310010,"date":"2025-11-26T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/310010\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:32:08","slug":"world-rugby-expands-trials-of-new-ball-for-womens-rugby-to-hsbc-svns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/310010\/","title":{"rendered":"World Rugby expands trials of new ball for women\u2019s rugby to HSBC SVNS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

World Rugby is expanding trials of a new ball for women\u2019s rugby to this years\u2019 HSBC SVNS Series<\/a>. The new bespoke size 4.5 ball has been developed in partnership with Gilbert to be the same weight as a size 5 whilst maintaining the advanced aerodynamic and technological features.<\/p>\n

The expansion follows positive player feedback from trials that include U18 and U20 international competitions, domestic competitions in Spain<\/a> and Colombia<\/a> and elite domestic club training sessions.<\/p>\n

Feedback from players says that they felt the new ball gave them greater control and accuracy, providing a platform to showcase their world-class skills while not impacting other elements of the game such as kicking.<\/p>\n

World Rugby has said it is committed to developing a women\u2019s game designed in its own right, rather than as an imitation of the men\u2019s game, and has trialed a smaller ball at a variety of different levels within the sport.<\/p>\n

Player feedback on the new balls will be collected across the HSBC SVNS Series<\/a> as well as other competitions and any future decision will be informed by this feedback alongside analysis of the impact on game metrics and injury rates.<\/p>\n

Chair of World Rugby\u2019s Women\u2019s High Performance Committee, Melodie Robinson said: \u201cWorld Rugby is committed to supporting women\u2019s rugby in forging its own path to suit our players, not just following the history of the men\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn trialing this new ball we\u2019re focused on player feedback and giving them the best possible stage to showcase their world-class skills. I\u2019d like to thank Gilbert for their support in developing this updated ball and I look forward to seeing the amazing things our superstar players can do with it in HSBC SVNS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Rugby is expanding trials of a new ball for women\u2019s rugby to this years\u2019 HSBC SVNS Series.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-310010","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\/310010","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=310010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}