Original Tri Nations Trophy

Argentina served up one of the biggest upsets in test rugby history when they stunned new zealand in the tri nations on saturday in parramatta australia beating the three times world champions.

Original tri nations trophy. And the good news for wallabies fans is that regardless of results the trophy will remain safely tucked away at rugby australias moore park headquarters. The 2020 tri nations series is the seventeenth edition of the annual southern hemisphere competition involving argentina australia and new zealandon 16 october 2020 2019 rugby championship champions and 2019 rugby world cup winners south africa confirmed their withdrawal from the originally planned 2020 rugby championship due to south african government travel restrictions player welfare. And the original comically oversized 1996 tri nations trophy will continue to take up significant real estate at new zealand rugby headquarters in wellington. Prior to the 2012 tournament when argentina joined it was known as the tri nations.

But the bad news is that one of world sports strangest prizes wont be dusted off for the winning captain to loft after australia new zealand and argentina lock horns over the course of six weekends. The rugby championship is an international rugby union competition contested annually by argentina australia new zealand and south africa.