Please find attached the 2021 WADA Prohibited List of substances and methods prohibited in sport and applicable to Rugby effective from January 1, 2021.The 2021 Prohibited List and the supporting documents are available for download and reference on the WADA website https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/science-medicine/2021-prohibited-list-documents,…
When you walk into the Kenya Harlequin club house every afternoon during training days, you are guaranteed to find Patrice Agunda in the gym doing his extras. If he isn’t there, rest assured he is on his way as has been his…
Each union that has qualified a team for the Tokyo 2020 Games has received US$100,000 per team in World Rugby funding to be directed towards rugby sevens squad training camps, competition support, technical and sports science and medical programmes.
Philadelphia Olando is the current Kenya Women’s skipper and will be looking to lead the Lionesses to an impressive outing at the Tokyo Olympics set for July 2021.
KRU’s Wambui Mumbi recently had a sit down with the Lionesses skipper and this is how it went.
High Performance Consultant Peter Harding has joined the Kenya Rugby Union on a three month, renewable secondment from World Rugby.
During his secondment, Harding will be tasked with assisting the KRU prepare its teams, specifically the KRU Women’s 7s for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Kenyan rugby greats John Ohaga, Tito Oduk and Humphrey Kayange share their thoughts on rugby in Kenya during the Kenya International Sports Film Festival on 31 October 2020
Xavier Kipng’etich, Ken Moseti, Charles Kuka and Samuel Motari were among the players on the move during the recent KRU transfer window.
Kenya Lionesses squad members graduated on Wednesday 2 December 2020 from the first phase of a two-year life skills training program supported by Isuzu East Africa’s CSR Program. Twenty nine members of the team went through a non-resident training program on development…
World Rugby has confirmed that the women’s edition of the Rugby World Cup will expand to 16 teams from 2025 onwards. Facebook Comments
The Kenya Rugby Union has entered into a partnership with Mediamax Network Limited that sees the media organization become the KRU’s Official Broadcast Partner for the next five years.
They will have exclusive rights to cover KRU’s flagship competitions – The Kenya Cup, Eric Shirley Shield, Rugby Super Series, National Sevens Circuit and the Safari Sevens.
The Kenya Rugby Union would like to announce an opportunity for a rugby player to join the Crusader Academy at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia. Interested applicants must fulfill the criteria below… 1. Male players only in this instance 2….
Kenya Lioness Coach Felix Oloo believes that coaching is a calling. “Being a coach especially at the top level demands a lot and you have to be sure you want to be a coach to succeed,” he says.
Oloo played his last game for Nakuru RFC in 2017, putting an end to an illustrious 15-year playing career. He won two Kenya Cup titles and an Enterprise cup.
A St. Mary’s Yala alumni, a law student at the Catholic University of East Africa and Kenyan International -21 year old Geoffrey Okwach got his inspiration to join rugby back in high school where he had started off as a basketball player…
The Kenya Rugby Union has this month invited National Team players for medical and physical assessments as we prepare for the upcoming season. Due to the covid19 pandemic and following guidelines put in place by the government as well as World Rugby,…
There is no doubt that Kenya has one of the most recognized rugby 7s playing teams in the world. Its flamboyant national team in the shorter version of the game famously known as Shujaa (hero) is one of the most visible and…
World Rugby recently announced a scholarship programme that will provide its member federations with greater opportunities to learn new skills that can help them improve their lives and the communities around them. The scholarships are being offered in partnership with the World…
The curtains have fallen on Andy C.R. Cobb who passed away aged 80 on Monday 19 October 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. Cobb was a three time East African Tusker, making the squads that toured England (1966), Ireland (1972) and Zambia…
The Kenya Rugby Union joins the rugby fraternity in celebrating the life of former player, match official and administrator John Gichinga who passed away in the early hours of Wednesday 7 October 2020. A prop forward during his playing days, Gichinga was…
