The winners are awarded the Paul Barrière Trophy, named after Paul Barrière, the French Rugby League President of the 1940s and 1950s. Three nations have won the tournament; Australia twelve times, Great Britain three times, and New Zealand once.

The Paul Barrière Trophy serves as the Rugby League World Cup, being awarded to the victorious team of each tournament's final. It is named after Paul Barrière, president of the Fédération Française de Rugby à XIII from 1947 to 1955.

Standing 2′ 6″ high and weighing an incredible 25 kilograms the magnificent trophy was donated by the French Rugby League under its President Paul Barriere for the first Rugby League World Cup competition run in 1954.

From 2017, the World Cup Trophy will be named in honour of Paul Barriere. The world cup features competitions for men, women and wheelchair players and is played every fourth year in the odd year. The next competition will be in England in 2021.

The Paul Barrière Trophy of the Rugby League World Cup. The Rugby League World Cup is an international rugby league tournament currently played every four years. The first tournament was held in 1954, hosted by France who had pushed for such a tournament to be approved.

2018年11月13日 · The World Cup trophy has been restored to its former glory – but for 20 years, it was missing altogether. Now called The Paul Barriere Trophy, after the trailblazing Frenchmen who was the brainchild of the World Cup, it was commissioned for the …

The original Rugby League World Cup trophy was stolen six days just before the finals in 1970, until it was found 20 years later in rubbish in Bradford. Since there was no trophy to present in 1970, several other trophies were used from 1972 until 1995.

2013年10月21日 · Professor Tony Collins, a social historian at De Montfort University, tells the story of the Rugby League World Cup trophy that went missing from the Midland Hotel in Bradford after Australia...

2018年11月9日 · Today, at the Rugby League International Federation Annual Congress, the final missing piece from the Paul Barrière cup has been unveiled – a cockerel that originally adorned the top of it. The location of the cockerel has been a mystery since it was last seen before the 1968 Rugby League World Cup, which took place in Australia and New Zealand.

2022年11月19日 · Video by Rugby League World Cup. While competing in the 1970 tournament, reigning champions Australia put the trophy on display at the Midland Hotel, Bradford. The trophy was stolen from the hotel on the night of Sunday, November the 1st, 1970, six days before the final, and remained unseen for the next twenty years. SHARE