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Rugby World Cup Firsts

• The first World Cup was held in 1987 in Australia and New Zealand

• The first winner of the World Cup was New Zealand in 1987

• The first World Cup to be held in a single country was the 1995 World Cup hosted by South Africa

• The first non-southern hemisphere country to win the world cup was England in 2003

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