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ROWLANDS LANDS WRU PRESIDENCY

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Keith Rowlands has won the race to succeed Sir Tasker Watkins as Welsh Rugby Union president.

Rowlands, 68, is a former Wales and Lions lock who played club rugby with Cardiff, Llanelli and London Welsh.

He was coach and administrator at Cardiff and sat on the WRU committee, and was the International Rugby Board's first chief executive (1988-96) as well as a director of Rugby World Cup, overseeing the 1999 tournament in Wales.