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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]
The Fiji women's national rugby sevens team represents Fiji at regional and international sevens tournaments. They have won four Pacific Games gold medals, two Oceania Championships, a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games and a bronze medal at the Summer Olympics. They also compete in the World Rugby Sevens Series and Rugby World Cup Sevens.
The Fiji Sevens, also known as the Suva Sevens is an international rugby union sevens tournament held at the National Stadium in Suva, Fiji.It was a part of the Sevens World Series in 2000, but in the wake of the Fijian coup d'état later that year, the tournament was dropped from the World circuit for the following season.
France hammered Fiji to win gold in Rugby Sevens. ... France, Saturday, July 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim ... The home team took gold in Rugby Sevens, handing Fiji its first-ever Olympic loss in a ...
The Fiji women’s team also confirmed its place at the Paris Olympics with a 54-0 win over Papua New Guinea in the final qualifying match. Fijiana were bronze medalists at the Tokyo Olympics four ...
However, the Fiji sevens team won the Rugby World Cup Sevens three years later. Fiji found itself increasingly excluded from the Tri-Nation group - Australia, New Zealand and South Africa - which denied them entry to the Super 12, and hindered development of the game internationally. [1] Professionalisation was a mixed blessing for the Fijian game.
She was a non-playing reserve for the Fiji sevens team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She was called-up to the Fiji seven team for the SVNS World Series in Hamilton, New Zealand in January 2023. [4] She scored a try as Fiji won the Oceania Rugby Championship Olympic Qualifier women’s final against Papau New Guinea in November 2023. [7]
Paula Dranisinukula [1] MOF (born 23 Sep 1989) is a forward in the Fiji national rugby sevens team and a soldier in the Republic of Fiji Military Forces. Dranisinukula made his debut for the Fiji national rugby sevens team in the 2017 Paris Sevens competition. Dranisinukula's favourite quotation is the Bible verse, Philipians 4:13 "I can do all ...