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1997 Five Nations Championship

Rugby union competition

Field	Value
name	1997 Five Nations Championship
date	18 January – 15 March 1997
countries

champions
count	11
grand slam	(5th title)
triple crown	(20th title)
matches	10
tries	50
top point scorer	ENG Paul Grayson (52 points)
top try scorer	FRA David Venditti
FRA Laurent Leflamand (4 tries)
previous year	1996
previous tournament	1996 Five Nations Championship
next year	1998
next tournament	1998 Five Nations Championship

FRA Laurent Leflamand (4 tries)

The 1997 Five Nations Championship was the sixty-eighth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 18 January to 15 March, the crucial match being in Weekend 4 where England inexplicably threw away a 20–6 lead at Twickenham with quarter of the match to go and were pipped by France. France went on to win their first Grand Slam in ten years; England defeated the other Home Nations by large margins to win the Triple Crown. It was the last time that France played at the Parc des Princes, in Paris. Since then, the French team has been playing in the Stade de France, also in Paris.

Participants

The teams involved were:

Venue	City	Head coach	Captain
Twickenham Stadium	London	Jack Rowell	Phil de Glanville
Parc des Princes	Paris	Jean-Claude Skrela	Abdelatif Benazzi
Lansdowne Road	Dublin	Brian Ashton	Keith Wood/Jim Staples
Murrayfield Stadium	Edinburgh	Jim Telfer	Rob Wainwright
National Stadium	Cardiff	Kevin Bowring	Jonathan Humphreys

Squads

Table

Results

Week 1

Venditti (3)

N. Jenkins S. Quinnell A. Thomas

Week 2

Carling De Glanville Gomarsall

S. Quinnell Hickie Miller

Week 3

Merle Venditti Dourthe (1) Howley G. Thomas

Hill Sleightholme (2) T. Underwood (2)

Week 4

Leflamand

Tait Townsend Walton Weir

Week 5

Leflamand Magne Tournaire

Hill Stimpson T. Underwood

References

(1997). "Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook 1997–98". Headline Book Publishing.

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