Steve Hansen

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Steve Hansen
Rugby union career

Date of birth	(1959-05-07) 7 May 1959
Place of birth	Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand
Coaching career
Years	Club / team
1996–2001 2002–04 2011–	Canterbury Wales New Zealand
Rugby union career

Stephen William "Steve" Hansen CNZM (born 7 May 1959) is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former rugby union player. He is currently the head coach of the All Blacks.

Early life

Hansen was born in Mosgiel, and was educated at The Taieri High School. A rugby union player, he represented Canterbury at first-class level on 21 occasions, He has four children; Whitney, Ollie, Jonty, and Jessie.

Coaching career

Canterbury

Hansen coached the Canterbury provincial rugby union team from 1996 to 2001. During his tenure the side won the National Provincial Championship in 1997 and 2001. Crusaders - In 2000 and 2001, he was assistant coach to Robbie Deans for the Canterbury Crusaders.

Wales

He was the head coach of the Welsh national team. He became the ninth Welsh coach in 13 years, after Graham Henry parted company with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) in 2002. During his first game in charge, Wales performed well but lost by 37–33 to France. This became a familiar theme during his tenure as coach. Events reached a head during 2003 when for the first time in their history Wales lost every match in the Six Nations Championship and went on to record a streak of 11 consecutive Test match defeats, broken by a defeat of rugby minnows Romania on 27 August 2003.^[1] Hansen coached Wales during the 2003 Rugby World Cup, in which a strong display against the All Blacks and a spirited quarter final loss against England stopped the criticism of his coaching. He stepped down as Wales head coach in the summer of 2004 after not seeking to renew his contract and was succeeded by Mike Ruddock.

New Zealand

In 2004, he was appointed to the All Blacks as an assistant coach under former mentor Graham Henry. Hansen was considered as a likely candidate to become the next Crusaders coach starting in the 2009 Super 14 season, after Robbie Deans left to coach Australia, but in fact the Crusaders coaching job went to former All Black Todd Blackadder.

2011

Hansen assisted Graham Henry in coaching the All Blacks to a 2011 Rugby World Cup final win against France, ending a 24 year Rugby World Cup winning drought for the All Blacks. It was tipped that Steve Hansen would take over as head coach of the New Zealand All Blacks when Graham Henry's contract expired at the end of 2011. He was formally appointed on 15 December 2011.^[2]

2012

In his first games and series as head coach, Hansen guided the All Blacks to a 3–0 games victory over the Irish in the 2012 Ireland rugby union tour of New Zealand, with the final game being a record 60–0 defeat for the Irish. On 25 August the All Blacks under Hansen retained the Bledisloe Cup for a 10th consecutive year after their second match against Australia during 2012 Rugby Championship. He was named IRB Coach of the year for 2012. His only defeat as coach in 2012 came against England, a 38–21 loss on 1 December 2012 in the 2012 end-of-year rugby union tests.

In the 2012 Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours Hansen was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to rugby.^[3]

2013

The All Blacks went undefeated in 2013, and Hansen was named IRB coach of the year for the second year running.^[4] The All Blacks retained the Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup, and won 14 of 14 matches, becoming the first team to ever do this in the professional era. The team finished the year by winning 24–22 against Ireland in the 2013 end-of-year rugby union tests.^[5]

All Blacks coaching record

By Country

Opponent	Played	Won	Lost	Drew	Win ratio (%)
Argentina	4	4	0	0	100
Australia	6	5	0	1	91.6
England	2	1	1	0	50
France	4	4	0	0	100
Ireland	4	4	0	0	100
Italy	1	1	0	0	100
Japan	1	1	0	0	100
Scotland	1	1	0	0	100
South Africa	4	4	0	0	100
Wales	1	1	0	0	100
TOTAL	28	26	1	1	94.6

References

↑ "Wales win at last". BBC Sport. 27 August 2003. Retrieved 27 August 2003.
↑ McKendry, Patrick (1 November 2011). "All Blacks: Devil in detail of hiring process". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
↑ Queen's Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours List 2012. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
↑ Napier, Liam (8 December 2013). "Q&A with the All Blacks coach Steve Hansen". Rugby Heaven. Fairfax. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
↑ "Ireland 22 New Zealand 24". Daily Telegraph. UK. 24 November 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2013.

External links

v t e Wales squad – 2003 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Bennett Charvis (c) Cockbain Davies Jenkins Jones, A. Jones, Dafydd Jones, Duncan Llewellyn McBryde Popham Sidoli Thomas, I. Thomas, J. Williams, M. Wyatt

Backs	Cooper Evans Harris Jones, M. Jones, S. Morgan Parker Peel Shanklin Sweeney Taylor Thomas Williams, R. Williams, S.

Coach	Hansen

Sporting positions
Preceded by Graham Henry	All Blacks coach 2012–	Incumbent

Persondata
Name	Hansen, Steve
Alternative names
Short description	New Zealand rugby union player
Date of birth	7 May 1959
Place of birth	Mosgiel, New Zealand
Date of death
Place of death

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