- Springbok star Pieter-Steph du Toit has won the World Rugby Player of the Year award for 2024.
- Coach Rassie Erasmus missed out on the Coach of the Year award, while flyhalf Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu lost out on Breakthrough Player of the Year.
- Seven Springboks have been named in the Dream Team of the Year.
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Star Springbok flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit has been honoured with the World Rugby Player of the Year accolade.
Du Toit scooped the prestigious award at the World Rugby Awards in Monaco on Sunday night.
He was nominated alongside Bok team-mates, lock Eben Etzebeth and winger Cheslin Kolbe, as well as Ireland loose forward Caelan Doris.
This is the second time Du Toit has won the World Rugby Player of the Year award, having also done so in 2019.
A world champion with the Boks in 2019 and 2023, Du Toit was again in superb form in 2024, a key member of the side that won the Rugby Championship for the first time in five years. The Boks won 10 of their 12 Tests this year.
Du Toit joins New Zealand flyhalf Beauden Barrett as a double winner of the award with All Black greats Dan Carter and Richie McCaw winning three times each.
Meanwhile, Bok coach Rassie Erasmus was snubbed for the Coach of the Year accolade, with the honour going to France 7s coach Jérôme Daret. Daret led his charges to gold at the Olympic Games in Paris.
Young Bok flyhalf Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu also lost out in the Men’s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year category. The young gun award went to New Zealand loose forward Wallace Sititi.
Elsewhere, seven Springboks cracked the nod in the Dream Team of the Year, namely prop Ox Nche, hooker Malcolm Marx, lock Etzebeth, flanker Du Toit, centres Damian de Allende and Jesse Kriel, and winger Kolbe.
The Women’s Player of the Year award went to England’s Ellie Kildunne.
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