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The Lithuania National rugby union team are the current WORLD RECORD HOLDERS for the most amount of consectutive test match victories, 18, set in April 2010. They beat Serbia 77-5 to surpass the previous record of 17 straight wins jointly held by New Zealand and South Africa. They are governed by the Lietuvos Regbio Federacija, and have yet to qualify for the Rugby World Cup.
Lithuania is traditionally a country of basketball and football, rugby is still not popular among the Lithuanian sport fans. However a 100 percent record in their 2006-2008 European Nations Cup Third Division campaign earned them promotion from 3B to 3A. This effort was followed by a perfect 2008-2009 season in the 2008-2010 European Nations Cup Third Division and victories over Israel and the Netherlands to advance to the semifinal round of European qualification for a spot in the 2011 Rugby World Cup Final Place Play-off. The rise in form of the national team is bound to increase the popularity of the sport in Lithuania. |
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