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Rugby goal posts stand 5.6 metres apart
The crossbar is 3 metres above the ground and the posts have no fixed top A conversion or penalty must pass over the crossbar and between the uprights to score. The posts are 5.6 metres apart and the crossbar sits 3 metres up, with padded bases for safety. The posts themselves may be any height above the minimum. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Rugby goal posts stand 5.6 metres apart: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The crossbar is 3 metres above the ground and the posts have no fixed top. The figure is taken from World Rugby, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.