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Sporting Witness: Women's Rugby Pioneers

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Women's Rugby Pioneers

26/11/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, Women's Rugby Pioneers

How the English women's rugby team fought for official recognition in the 1990s.

In 1996, England won the inaugural Home Nations championship in women's rugby. It was a major victory in the English players' fight for official recognition for their sport. Robert Nicholson talks to Gill Burns and Nicky Ponsford about how the women's game overcame entrenched sexism and official indifference. The programme is a Whistledown Production.

PHOTO: The England women's team in action in the 1990s (Getty Images)

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