OLYMPIC GOLD
Rugby and sport
What we know
- Rugby sevens is one of Fiji’s great passions.
- Fiji’s men’s sevens team won Olympic gold at Rio 2016 — Fiji’s first Olympic medal — and won gold again at Tokyo 2020.
Pictures in this chapter
Fiji Sevens Rugby Team at the 2009 Hong Kong Sevens
Fiji vs. Ireland, 2024 Summer Olympic rugby sevens, men's quarter-final, 2024-07-25
Fiji vs. Ireland, 2024 Summer Olympic rugby sevens, men's quarter-final, 2024-07-25
Fiji vs. Ireland, 2024 Summer Olympic rugby sevens, men's quarter-final, 2024-07-25
Fiji v Portugal in the rugby sevens gold-medal match, World Games 2009
Fiji leave the field after defeating South Africa in the final of the Rugby Sevens tournamnet at the 2005 World Games in Duisburg, Germany.
Fiji's gold medal win in Rugby Sevens is a win for all of Oceania! (2021)
Three of Fiji's Olympic gold medallists in rugby sevens (2021)
Fiji national rugby union team, 2013 IRB Pacific Nations Cup Champions
Fiji 1st Battalion rugby team v Malayan XV (1956)
Fiji 7's players before their departure for teh USA 7's 2016
Fijiana 7's players before their departure for the USA 7's 2016
Sources
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