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. Thus Fiji is the sole nation to have won mens Olympic gold in the sport.^[1] They are the only country 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.

Quick Facts Union, Coach(es) ...

Republic of Fiji

Union	Fiji Rugby Union
Coach(es)	Ben Gollings
Captain(s)	Josua Vakurunabili
Top scorer	Waisale Serevi (1310)
Most tries	Jerry Tuwai (133)
Team kit Change kit
World Cup Sevens
Appearances	8 (First in 1993)
Best result	Champions (1997, 2005, 2022) World Rugby series (2005–2006, 2014–2015, 2015–2016, 2018–2019)

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Quick Facts Medal record, Olympic Games ...

Fiji national rugby sevens team

Medal record
Olympic Games
	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Team
	2020 Tokyo	Team
Rugby Sevens World Cup
	1997 British Hong Kong	Team
	2005 Hong Kong	Team
	2022 Cape Town	Team
	1993 Edinburgh	Team
	2001 Mar del Plata	Team
	2013 Moscow	Team
World Games
	2001 Akita	Team
	2005 Duisburg	Team
	2009 Kaohsiung	Team
Oceania Sevens Championship
	2014 Noosa	Team
	2016 Suva	Team
	2017 Suva	Team
	2018 Suva	Team
	2021 Townsville	Team
	2011 Apia	Team
	2013 Suva	Team
	2019 Suva	Team
Pacific Games
	1999 Santa Rita	Team
	2003 Suva	Team
	2007 Apia	Team
	2015 Port Moresby	Team
	2019 Apia	Team
	2011 Noumea	Team

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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]

The International Rugby Board (IRB) expanded the sevens rugby competition to become a series of 11 tournaments around the world. The debt the FRU incurred from the 2000 sevens series was significant. At the end of December 2000, the FRU was burdened with accumulated losses of F$933,306. Fiji appealed to the IRB for funding, arguing that the sevens tournament was built around Fiji and they would not be able to participate without such funding. From that appeal flowed participation funds that enabled the islands teams to play in the World Sevens Series fully funded. By the end of November 2001, the FRU was sitting on a surplus of F$560,311 compared with the previous year's net loss of F$675,609.

The FRU again ran out of money in 2013 to support the national sevens team. The IRB had temporarily suspended funding due to concerns with FRU financial management and governance. The head coach went unpaid for months, another staff was terminated, and the team lacked funds for basic supplies such as rugby balls and bottled water.^[4]

Waisale Serevi is highly regarded as the best player ever in sevens rugby.^{[citation needed]} Nicknamed the "maestro", played in this side from 1989 to 2006 leading them to countless tournament victories, two Sevens World Cups in 1997 and 2005.

Fiji has won the World Rugby Sevens Series four times — first in 2005–06, and most recently in 2018–19. Fiji is one of only two teams — along with New Zealand — to finish in the top four of the World Series every season since its inception.^{[citation needed]}

• World Sevens Series Winners (2005–06, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2018–19)
• Summer Olympics Gold (2016, 2020)^[10]
• Rugby World Cup Sevens Champions (1997, 2005,2022)^[11]
• Commonwealth Games: Silver (1998, 2002, 2018,2022); Bronze (2006)
• Hong Kong Sevens Winners (1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
• World Games Gold (2001, 2005, 2009)
• Pacific Games Gold (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015, 2019)
• Darwin Hottest Sevens Winner (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
• Oceania Sevens Winners (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021)^[12]
• Gala Sevens Winner (1991)
• Australia Sevens Winners (2000, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2020)
• USA Sevens Winners (2007, 2015, 2016)
• Singapore Sevens Winners (2006, 2018)
• Scotland Sevens Winners (2009, 2015)
• Mar de Plata Winners (2000, 2002)
• New Zealand Sevens Winners (2000, 2006, 2010, 2018, 2019)
• South Africa Sevens Winners (1999, 2002, 2005, 2018)
• London Sevens Winners (2006, 2012, 2018, 2019)
• Dubai Sevens Winners (2013, 2015)
• Japan Sevens Winners (1995–97, 2000, 2014)

• Fiji Rugby Union
• Fiji national rugby union team

• McLaren, Bill A Visit to Hong Kong in Starmer-Smith, Nigel & Robertson, Ian (eds) The Whitbread Rugby World '90 (Lennard Books, 1989)