1 Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Food, Nutrition and Health, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC,Canada.
2 Department of Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC,Canada.
3 PERFORM Centre, Concordia University, Montreal, QC,Canada.
4 Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Réadaptation (CRIR), Constance-Lethbridge Rehabilitation Centre, Montreal, QC,Canada.

CONCLUSION: Our results revealed the presence of side-to-side asymmetries in body composition in university rugby players between sex and position. The amount of asymmetry, however, was not associated with LBP and LLI.