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==Coaching career== In the autumn of 2004 Jenkins returned to the [[Welsh Rugby Union]] in the capacity of Kicking Skills Coach, working with the then newly formed WRU Academies to improve the future generations of outside halves. In the summer of 2006, he returned to the National Squad set up as Skills Coach where he first worked for [[Gareth Jenkins]] during the [[2007 Rugby World Cup]] campaign and subsequently [[Warren Gatland]]'s new-look management team. During the 2007β2008 season, Jenkins helped the Welsh national team to a second [[Six Nations Championship|Six Nations]] [[Grand Slam (rugby union)|Grand Slam]] in four years. ===British and Irish Lions=== On 8 June 2009, Jenkins was appointed as the [[British and Irish Lions]]' specialist kicking coach for their tour of South Africa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lionsrugby.com/news/7992.php |title=News | British & Irish Lions |Official Website: Woodward to note Welsh achievement |publisher=Lionsrugby.com |date=22 March 2005 |access-date=2013-06-17}}</ref> He was then reappointed as a coach for the Lions for their 2013 Tour to Australia alongside [[Graham Rowntree]] and head coach Warren Gatland. He was subsequently named in the coaching team for the 2017 and 2021 tours, again alongside Gatland on both, and Rowntree in 2017.
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