{"id":156436,"date":"2025-06-04T03:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156436\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T03:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:18:28","slug":"baby-faced-85kg-back-wins-urc-ironman-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156436\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby-faced 85kg back wins URC ‘Ironman’ award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Photo By Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile via Getty Images https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/baby-faced-85kg-back-wins-urc-ironman-award\/ <\/p>\n

Slightly-built Wales<\/a> and Cardiff full-back, Cameron Winnett, has been rewarded for his durability by winning the United Rugby Championship\u2019s \u2018Ironman\u2019 award.<\/p>\n

The URC Ironman award recognises the player who has played the most minutes during the campaign, with Winnett. who weighs 85kgs and stands 1.80m tall, clocking up 1,427 minutes.<\/p>\n

Winnett started all 18 rounds of the regular season for Cardiff, missing just 13 minutes all season. He finished ahead of Munster\u2019s Tom Farrell (1,371 minutes) and Dragons RFC<\/a> forward, Shane Lewis-Hughes<\/a> (1,353 minutes).<\/p>\n

\"WalesEngland\u2019s prop Will Stuart<\/a> (L) tackles Wales\u2019 full-back Cameron Winnett during the Six Nations<\/a> international rugby union match between England<\/a> and Wales at Twickenham Stadium in south-west London, on February 10, 2024. (Photo by Glyn KIRK \/ AFP) (Photo by GLYN KIRK\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

It was one of several awards handed out before the URC semi-finals, including the Golden Boot and Top Try Scorer, which were won by fellow Welshmen, Ioan Lloyd<\/a> and Harri Millard.<\/p>\n

Scarlets\u2019 Ioan Lloyd was the league\u2019s points scorer with 124, while Cardiff\u2019s Millard crossed for nine tries. That put him level with\u00a0Stormers winger Leolin Zas<\/a> and Munster<\/a> centre Tom Farrell, but Millard had the better tries-per-minute-played ratio.<\/p>\n

Ruben van Heerden of The Stormers<\/a> was named Tackle Machine for his competition-best\u00a0 171 tackles and a 98 per cent completion success rate, while Farrell claimed the new Playmaker award, which was based on the metrics of try assists, offloads and defenders beaten.<\/p>\n

URC Awards Winners 2024-25<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gilbert Golden Boot: Ioan Lloyd (Scarlets)
OFX Top Try Scorer: Harri Millard<\/a> (Cardiff Rugby)
Tackle Machine: Ruben van Heerden<\/a> (DHL Stormers)
Ironman: Cam Winnett<\/a> (Cardiff Rugby)
Playmaker: Tom Farrell (Munster Rugby)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"mens united-rugby-championship Photo By Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile via Getty Images https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/news\/baby-faced-85kg-back-wins-urc-ironman-award\/ Slightly-built Wales and Cardiff full-back, Cameron Winnett, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-156436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114622936069991785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}