High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup. It was hosted and won by South Africa, and had the distinction of being the first Rugby World Cup in which every match was held in one country.The World Cup was the first major sporting event to take place in South Africa following the end of apartheid. It was also the first in which the South African national team was allowed to compete; the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB, now the International Rugby Board) had only allowed the readmittance of South Africa to international rugby in 1992, following negotiations to end apartheid. The World Cup would also be the last major event of rugby union's amateur era; two months after the tournament, the IRFB opened the sport to professionalism.The World Cup would be marred by an accident that took place during the pool stage of the tournament. Three minutes into a match between Cote d'Ivoire and Tonga, the Ivorian winger Max Brito was running out of defence when he was tackled by the Tongan flanker Inoke Afeaki, and was crushed beneath several other players. Despite intensive care, Brito was left paralyzed below the neck.

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