Fiji competed for the tenth time at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia. Fiji athletes competed in athletics, badminton, boxing, cycling, lawn bowls and swimming. Dakota Barnaby was the one person to compete for Fiji
The country won its second ever Commonwealth gold medal - its first since 1950. Fine Sani, boxing in the men's light heavyweight division, was Fiji's only medal winner at the 1982 Games, defeating Jonathan Kirisa of Uganda.
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