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Dupont breaks record and 105 metre try wins top prize in Top 14 awards

BY Jack Tunney  ·  Tuesday Sep 24, 2024

On Monday evening, Antoine Dupont was awarded the ‘Best Top 14 Player’ and ‘Best French International Player’ titles at the prestigious ‘Nuit du Rugby’ awards. 

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This was a record third time Dupont collected the top awards, after scooping them the previous year and in 2021. Despite being only 27 years of age, Antoine Dupont has already built a metaphorical trophy cabinet to hold more than 20 awards, so far.

Speaking about the pride of the awards, Dupont said: “You have to measure how lucky you are to win trophies, be that as a team or individually,” Dupont said at Monday’s ceremony in central Paris.

“It’s always nice to have nights like this … We were lucky to feel incredible emotions, be that with Toulouse or the Olympic medal. 

“We’ve realised that we’ve done something great this year.”

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Elsewhere there was a well-deserved ‘Try of the season’ award given out to Peniasi Dakuwaqa for his wonder try against Racing 92.

In this episode of Walk the Talk, Jim Hamilton chats with double World Cup winner Damian de Allende about all things Springbok rugby, including RWC2023 and the upcoming Ireland series. Watch now for free on RugbyPass TV

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