{"id":41163,"date":"2025-09-27T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/new-zealand-crushes-france-third-place-in-womens-rugby-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:00:40","slug":"new-zealand-crushes-france-third-place-in-womens-rugby-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/rugby\/new-zealand-crushes-france-third-place-in-womens-rugby-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Crushes France: Third Place in Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>New Zealand Beats France to Secure Third Place in Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup<\/h2>\n\nIn an exciting match played at the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham, London, New Zealand demonstrated their power by defeating France with a score of 42-26, thus securing third place in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup.\n\nThe Black Ferns, after being eliminated in the semifinals by Canada, sought to close their participation in the tournament with a resounding victory.\n\nFrance, for its part, had proven to be a formidable rival, managing to put England in a difficult position in its own semi-final.\n\nThe match began with France taking the lead thanks to a try by Pauline Bourdon at 10 minutes.\n\nNew Zealand responded quickly, with co-captain Ruahei Demant scoring a try under the posts, leveling the score.\n\nAfter a period of equality, Sylvia Brunt achieved a try that put the Black Ferns ahead.\n\nPlayer Brunt was key in the following play, facilitating a movement that culminated in a try by Renee Holmes.\n\nNext, Jorja Miller and Laura Bayfield extended the lead for New Zealand.\n\nBraxton Sorensen-McGee, at just 18 years old, also contributed a try.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0927%2Fr1551828_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Nueva Zelanda celebrando su victoria.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>New Zealand will celebrate their third place in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup.<\/em>\n\nThe legendary Portia Woodman-Wickliffe, possibly in her last match with New Zealand, was substituted near the hour mark.\n\nWoodman-Wickliffe, who came out of retirement to participate in the World Cup, showed visible emotion when focused on the giant screen.\n\nMinutes later, Sorensen-McGee scored his second try, consolidating New Zealand&#8217;s lead.\n\nFrance reacted with tries from L\u00e9a Champon and Gaby Vernier, followed by another from Emilie Boulard, which generated a close finish.\n\nHowever, the French effort came late, and New Zealand held on for victory to secure third place in the tournament.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Beats France to Secure Third Place in Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup In an exciting match played at the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham, London, New Zealand demonstrated their power by defeating France with a score of 42-26, thus securing third place in the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup. The Black Ferns, after being eliminated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[684,683,203,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-41163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}