Fiji made its debut at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Since then the nation has competed at 16 Summer Olympic Games and 3 Winter Olympic Games. Its athletes have taken part in archery, athletics, boxing, football, judo, sailing, shooting, swimming, weightlifting and rugby sevens.
Fiji has won four Olympic medals, three in men's rugby sevens, and one in women's rugby sevens. Olympics rugby was first contested in 2016 and the Fiji men's team is the most successful of any country, winning gold in 2016 and 2020, and silver in 2024. The women's team won bronze in 2020.
History
Qualifications Prior to the introduction of rugby sevens, Fiji's national sport, at the 2016 Summer Olympics, only two athletes had qualified for the Olympic Games through reaching the required standards instead of receiving a wild card invitation. 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."The London dream" , Fiji Times, 22 August 2011Fiji at the Olympics, The Telegraph
Invitations Fiji's Winter Olympians were Rusiate Rogoyawa in cross-country skiing (1988, 1994) and Laurence Thoms in alpine skiing (2002), both participating by invite.
Notable participants Fiji has had two competitors appear at five separate Summer Olympic Games. 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. Swimmer Carl Probert matched the feat in Beijing 2008, having first appeared at the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona.
Medalling Fiji earned its first ever Olympic medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, a gold in men's rugby sevens. The team broke out in a victory song that drew considerable online attention and Fiji declared a national holiday for the win.
At the 2020 Olympics the team successfully defended its title, while the women's team took a bronze medal. At the 2024 Olympics the men's team won the silver medal.
The world's first circulating seven-dollar banknotes have been issued in Fiji in 2017 to commemorate the victory of the Fiji men's rugby sevens team at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, and in 2022 to celebrate the Fiji’s Rugby 7s men's gold and women's bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games., Banknote News
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 5 0 0 0 0 – 2 0 0 0 0 – did not participate 1 0 0 0 0 – 2 0 0 0 0 – 2 0 0 0 0 – did not participate 15 0 0 0 0 – 24 0 0 0 0 – 19 0 0 0 0 – 17 0 0 0 0 – 7 0 0 0 0 – 10 0 0 0 0 – 6 0 0 0 0 – 9 0 0 0 0 – 52 1 0 0 1 54 30 1 0 1 2 59 30 0 1 0 1 74 future event Total 2 1 1 4 95
Medals by Winter Games GamesAthletesGoldSilverBronzeTotalRank 1 0 0 0 0 – did not participate 1 0 0 0 0 – did not participate 1 0 0 0 0 – 2006–2026 did not participate future event Total 0 0 0 0 –
Medals by summer sport
List of medalists
Summer sports Medal Name(s) Games Sport Event Rugby Sevens Men's tournament Josua Vakurunabili Iosefo Masi Jiuta Wainiqolo Meli Derenalagi Jerry Tuwai Napolioni Bolaca Sireli Maqala Kalione Nasoko Asaeli Tuivuaka Vilimoni Botitu Waisea Nacuqu Aminiasi Tuimaba Rugby Sevens Men's tournament Vasiti Solikoviti Sesenieli Donu Raijieli Daveua Rusila Nagasau Ana Maria Roqica Reapi Ulunisau Lavena Cavuru Laisana Likuceva Viniana Riwai Alowesi Nakoci Ana Naimasi Roela Radiniyavuni Lavenia Tinai Rugby Sevens Women's tournament
Ponepati Loganimasi Rugby Sevens Men's tournament
Multiple medalists
AthleteSex Sport Years GamesGoldSilverBronzeTotal M 2016–2024 Summer 2 1 0 3 M 2020–2024 Summer 1 1 0 2 M 2020–2024 Summer 1 1 0 2
See also
List of flag bearers for Fiji at the Olympics Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics Fiji at the Paralympics
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