Ganbatte Trophy

The Ganbatte Trophy was a silver cup presented to the winner of any rugby union match between the Melbourne Rebels team from Australia and the Sunwolves team from Japan. The word Ganbatte (Japanese: 頑張って, "Do your best") is often used as an exhortation at Japanese sporting events meaning to "Go for it!" or to strive.[1]

History

The Melbourne Rebels recruited Japanese international players Shota Horie in 2013, followed by Keita Inagaki, Male Sau, and Kotaro Matsushima.[2] The club was the first in Australia to launch a website in the Japanese language.[3] In 2016, following the introduction of the Sunwolves team to the Super Rugby competition, the Ganbatte Trophy was inaugurated to mark the relationship between the Rebels and Japanese rugby.[3][4] The Rebels won the trophy on 5 of the 6 occasions the trophy was contested, with the Sunwolves solitary win coming in February 2020. The 7th and final contesting of the trophy scheduled for March 2020 was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the Sunwolves being disbanded in June 2020 following the cancellation of the 2020 Super Rugby season.

Winners
  • 2016 Rebels
  • 2018 Rebels
  • 2018 Rebels
  • 2019 Rebels
  • 2019 Rebels
  • 2020 Sunwolves

Fixtures
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gollark: I mean anthropomorphization as in assuming that physical phenomena are driven by some kind of humanish mind, not taking animals and making them vaguely human-shaped.
gollark: Religions also involve our tendency to anthropomorphize all things ever and overzealously pattern-match.
gollark: Religions rely on weird brain quirks which I think Ponzi schemes depend less heavily on.
gollark: But it's widely understood that a good way to understand something is to learn about the factors which led to it being the way it is.

See also

References
  1. Patterson, Tim (17 March 2011). "Japan's Resolve is found in its language". Matador Network. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  2. Ward, Roy (5 February 2016). "Melbourne Rebels sign Japanese back Kotaro Matsushima for Super Rugby season". The Age. Melbourne: Fairfax. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  3. 17 March 2011 Rebels And Sunwolves Unveil Ganbatte Trophy Archived 21 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine（Official Website of Melbourne Rebels, 18 March 2016 Retrieved 20 March 2016）
  4. Ganbatte Trophy 創設 Archived 1 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine（Official Website of Sunwolves, 18 March 2016 Retrieved 20 March 2016）
  5. "SA Rugby Match Centre – Sunwolves 9-35 Rebels". South African Rugby Union. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  6. "Rebels Overpower Sunwolves in Tokyo". Green and Gold Rugby. 20 March 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  7. サンウルブズ、レベルズに完敗. J Sports (in Japanese). 3 March 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
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