{"id":4982,"date":"2024-09-24T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-rugby-rankings-ireland-replace-springboks-as-number-one-side-in-world\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:00:42","slug":"world-rugby-rankings-ireland-replace-springboks-as-number-one-side-in-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-rugby-rankings-ireland-replace-springboks-as-number-one-side-in-world\/","title":{"rendered":"World Rugby Rankings: Ireland replace Springboks as number one side in world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ireland have returned to the top of the World Rugby rankings after South Africa&#8217;s defeat by Argentina at the weekend.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cly798784kvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Springboks were beaten 29-28<\/a> by the Pumas in the penultimate round of the Rugby Championship on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The loss in Santiago cost the back-to-back world champions 1.81 ranking points and they now trail Andy Farrell&#8217;s men by 0.35 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Springboks had been top since overtaking Ireland 11 months ago when the Six Nations champions lost at the quarter-final stage of last year&#8217;s World Cup in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sides split a two-Test series in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere in the rankings, Fiji have taken ninth place from Australia after their win over Japan in the Pacific Nations Cup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/clyz4e268g4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland have returned to the top of the World Rugby rankings after South Africa&#8217;s defeat by Argentina at the weekend. The Springboks were beaten 29-28 by the Pumas in the penultimate round of the Rugby Championship on Saturday. The loss in Santiago cost the back-to-back world champions 1.81 ranking points and they now trail Andy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}