DUBLIN — Former Rugby Canada chair Sally Dennis has been elected to World Rugby's executive board.
The Vancouver lawyer received 28 votes from the World Rugby Council, ahead of Uruguay's Sebastian Pineyrua and Samoa's Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi for the non-high-performance union position on the panel that essentially acts as the world governing body's board of directors.The board will be led by Australia's Brett Robinson, who beat out France's Abdelatif Benazzi and Italy's Andrea Rinaldo in the race to succeed Sir Bill Beaumont as World Rugby chair.
They join Robinson, World Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin, the Independent EventsCo Chair , three independent members and player representatives (Rob Kearney and Melodie Robinson on the executive board. Dennis currently represents Canada on the larger World Rugby Council, which features officials from 18 countries. Argentina, Australia, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa and Wales each have three representatives on the council while Canada, Fiji, Georgia, Romania, Samoa, Uruguay and the U.S. have one apiece.
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