^ "The Fijian way: The people's team delivers 1st Olympic gold".
Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. "Fiji storms to first-ever men's rugby sevens gold at Rio 2016".
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^ "The London dream" Archived at the Wayback Machine, Fiji Times, 22 August 2011 Fiji TV secures rights to broadcast Tokyo Olympics By Dhanjay Deo Thursday image: File Fiji Television Limited has secured the rights to broadcast the Tokyo Olympics on its. 
"Fiji's rugby sevens team on the verge of making history at Rio Olympics".
Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics. List of flag bearers for Fiji at the Olympics. Īt the 2020 Olympics the team successfully defended its title, while the women's team took a bronze medal. Īs a result, the winning team broke out in a victory song that drew considerable online attention and Fiji declared a national holiday for the win. Medalling įiji earned its first ever Olympic medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, a gold in Men's Rugby Sevens. Swimmer Carl Probert matched the feat in Beijing 2008, having first appeared at the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona. Windsurfer Tony Philp competed in five consecutive Games from Los Angeles in 1984 (when he was just 15 years of age) to Sydney 2000, finishing 10th on two occasions. Invitations įiji's Winter Olympians were Rusiate Rogoyawa in cross-country skiing (1988, 1994) and Laurence Thoms in alpine skiing (2002), both participating by invite.įiji has had two competitors appear at five separate Summer Olympic Games. They are Makelesi Bulikiobo, who qualified for the women's 400 metre sprint at the 2008 Games in Beijing, and Leslie Copeland, who with a throw of 80.45 metres qualified for the men's javelin event at the 2012 Games in London. Prior to the introduction of rugby sevens, Fiji's national sport, at the 2016 Summer Olympics, only two athletes had taken part in Olympic Games through reaching the required standards to qualify, rather than by receiving a wild card invitation. As of 2020, no other nation won a gold medal in the Olympic men's rugby sevens. 
Īt the 2016 Summer Olympics, the Fiji rugby team won a gold medal, the country's inaugural Olympic Medal, which they retained at the 2020 Olympics. Its athletes have taken part in archery, athletics, boxing, football, judo, sailing, shooting, swimming, weightlifting and rugby sevens. Fiji, having made its Olympic debut at the 1956 Summer Games, has competed at fourteen Summer Games and three Winter Games.
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