Who won the 2003 Rugby World Cup?
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The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth rugby union world cup. It was won by England. Originally planned to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, all games were shifted to Australia following a contractual dispute over ground signage rights between the New Zealand Rugby Football Union and Rugby World Cup Limited. The pre-event favourites were England and New Zealand, with France, defending champions Australia and South Africa all expected to make strong showings.\n\nAustralia won the right to host the World Cup in 2003 without the involvement of New Zealand after a contractual dispute over ground signage rights between the New Zealand Rugby Football Union and Rugby World Cup Limited. The overall stadium capacity was reduced from the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales.\n\nThe final between Australia and England was played at Sydney's Telstra Stadium in front of a crowd of 82,957. Security at the final was the tighest ever for a Rugby World Cup final. Australia opened the scoring after they decided to run a penalty instead of kicking for touch. Lote Tuquiri beat England's right wing, Robinson, to a high cross-field kick and went over for the first try, but Elton Flatley was not able to add the conversion.\n\nEngland dominated the rest of the half, opening up a 9-5 lead after Australian indiscipline gave away several penalties, but were unable to capitalise on their dominance. They nearly crossed the line on one occasion, when the Australian defence was stretched after a mistake and Ben Kay was given a potential try-scoring pass. He fumbled the ball over the line. Television replays showed Kay's reaction in four-letter words. Towards the end of the first half, England stretched their lead further. Lawrence Dallaglio made a break and popped the ball inside to Jonny Wilkinson, who drew the defence before putting Robinson away in the corner for a try. The conversion was missed, but England went in at halftime leading by 14-5, a resounding riposte to the Australian media, which had questioned England's try-scoring abilities.\n\nIn the second half Australia tightened their discipline, and solid play forced mistakes from England. The game swung from end to end, with both sides having try-scoring opportunities, but neither able to take them. Australia managed to get points on the board and Elton Flatley scored two penalties to make the score 14-11 to England. In the 79th minute, Australia were putting pressure on England in their half. England had a scrum and just needed to keep hold of the ball until time elapsed. Several scrums were reset after the front rows failed to engage properly and finally, the referee, André Watson, gave a controversial penalty to Australia, despite England's scrum dominating the rest of the game. Flatley converted it with the last kick of normal time to tie the score 14-14 and take it to 20 minutes' extra time.\n\nEngland opened the scoring in extra time with another Wilkinson penalty, but with two and a half minutes of extra time remaining Australia were awarded another penalty, which Flatley kicked successfully. With 21 seconds left before sudden death, England's Wilkinson scored a drop goal to win the match and with it the world championship.
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It only confirms that the ABs are the one truly consistent side in the world. They appear so far ahead of the rest because the others alternate between the sublime and the ridiculous (with the possible exception of Ireland). Teams like the Pumas and Italy have made huge strides, but unfortunately they cannot be considered true contenders for WC honours. However, any of the top 5 teams on the day are capable of beating even the awesome ABs. My vote would still be with the ABs to take it. However, don't underestimate partisan support in France, Ireland have the team and skills, the Aussies are never to be under-estimated (although they are building) and my heart is with the Bokke (when they click as a team, beware...). I'm afraid England have too much ground to make up, but at least they appear to have bottomed out (I think). Anyway, I'm looking forward to some awesome rugby matches!
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dont know about the best but the fastest was by bobby fulton in 15 seconds after start of game. and          shane horgan(Ireland) made a great try against england in the last match of the 6 nations last week to give ireland the triple crown, oh ya that felt good
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Was won by France who played Brazil. The final score 3-0.
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http://www.eurosport.fr/football/ jusqu en 2003
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final match:india vs australia(2003)\naustralia won
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New Zealand vs France\nNew Zealand Winner\nScore 29-9
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The champion of 2002 FIFa world cup was Brazil
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Is that so hard to get!!!!!!!!anyways it was 1996 defeating Australia.Point to note here is they were undefeated in the whole world cup although because of security concern Australia and New Zealand did not play with them and matches got called out and India's match in semis was awarded to them because of crowd's behaviour
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Japan. They beat Cuba 10-6.
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If we are talking NRL, it has to be the Knights win in 1997 with the last minute victory over Manly. What a finish.
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In 1987. This is when the official body of rugby, the IRB, organized the event. The RWC was help on New Zealand with the All Blacks defeating France 29-9 in the final.
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Last weekend they beat Ireland 37-15, and before that had two wins against England 34-3 and 43-18.\n\nOn Saturday 8 July they play the opening Tri-nations match against New Zealand in Christchurch.
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1-0  to australia that in confidrations cup in 2001
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That would be France in 1998 at home. They beat Brazil 3-0 in the final.
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Uruguay won the first world cup in1930 which was held in Uruguay
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Australia won the Champions Trophy !!!!!!!!!!!!!