Fiji national rugby sevens team

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Fiji women's national rugby sevens team.
Fiji
UnionFiji Rugby Union
Coach(es)Osea Kolinisau
Captain(s)Vatemo Ravouvou
Top scorerWaisale Serevi (1310)
Most triesWaisea Nacuqu (135)
Team kit
Change kit
World Cup Sevens
Appearances8 (First in 1993)
Best resultChampions (1997, 2005, 2022)
World Rugby series (2005–2006, 2014–2015, 2015–2016, 2018–2019)
Fiji national rugby sevens team
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Team
Rugby Sevens World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1997 British Hong Kong Team
Gold medal – first place 2005 Hong Kong Team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Cape Town Team
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Edinburgh Team
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Mar del Plata Team
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Moscow Team
World Games
Gold medal – first place 2001 Akita Team
Gold medal – first place 2005 Duisburg Team
Gold medal – first place 2009 Kaohsiung Team
Oceania Sevens Championship
Gold medal – first place 2014 Noosa Team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Suva Team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Suva Team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Suva Team
Gold medal – first place 2021 Townsville Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Apia Team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Suva Team
Silver medal – second place 2019 Suva Team
Pacific Games
Gold medal – first place 1999 Santa Rita Team
Gold medal – first place 2003 Suva Team
Gold medal – first place 2007 Apia Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Port Moresby Team
Gold medal – first place 2019 Apia Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Noumea Team

The Fiji national rugby sevens team has competed in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Olympics. Fiji won the gold medal in the inaugural rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics in 2016 in Brazil, the country's first Olympic medal in any event, and repeated as Olympic champions in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, defeating New Zealand.[1] Fiji would fall short from winning gold for a third straight time in 2024 after a defeat in the final to hosts France. Overall, Fiji are the only national rugby sevens team in the world to have won the Sevens Treble (the Olympics, Sevens Series, and World Cup), the three major achievements in Sevens. They have won multiple World Rugby Sevens Series and Rugby World Cup Sevens.

Fiji Sevens is watched and enjoyed by fans around the world for its style of play — the "Flying Fijians" play with Fijian flair.[2] Their passing and offloads can be unorthodox for traditional rugby coaching, and more similar to basketball style.[3]

  1. ^ "Fiji beats New Zealand to clinch back-to-back Olympic titles". AP. 27 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Rugby Sevens final: Team GB thrashed 43-7 as Fiji win their first-ever Olympic medal", Telegraph, Daniel Schofield, 12 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Q&A: Ben Ryan on life after becoming an Olympic legend – and Fijian chief – as coach of the island’s gold-medal rugby team", South China Morning Post, James Porteous, 15 October 2016.