Ionel Melinte rugby player
Ionel Melinte rugby player

Ionel Melinte

31st Jan 1996 1.78m/84kg Fullback

Round 2 Review - Men's Rugby Europe Championship 24

8 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Georgia, Spain and Romania made it two wins from two in the Rugby Europe Championship for 2024 at the weekend while Portugal got their first win of the year. The second round of group phase fixtures began...

“I have been working for this all my life”: Florin Vlaicu reaches 1,000 point milestone

1 year ago by Ultimate Rugby

Man of the moment Florin Vlaicu admits that it was “an incredible feeling” to become only the seventh man in history to reach 1,000 Test points last weekend.   When centre Vlaicu, the...

Explained: World Rugby Rankings

2 years ago by Ultimate Rugby

The men’s and women’s World Rugby Rankings are calculated using a points exchange system, in which sides take points off each other based on the match result.     Whatever...