Former England international Gill Burns with the recovered trophy. Photo / England Rugby
The Women's Rugby World Cup trophy, gone missing for more than 15 years, has been found in an attic in England.
England Rugby posted a video on its social media accounts revealing the discovery and story behind how it was found.
Former England player Gill Burns, part of the side
that won the tournament in 1994 and the last to hold this version of the trophy aloft, recounted how she had been trying to solve the mystery behind its disappearance for some time.
"It was in the museum [World Rugby Museum] briefly before it went back out on tour again and then a few years later we started asking 'does anyone know where the World Cup is?', and nobody knew where it was," she said.
A new trophy was made for the 1998 tournament and has been used ever since, leaving its predecessor as a distant memory; but one that finally surfaced by chance this month.
