Waisale Tikoisolomoni Serevi is a former Fijian rugby union football player, coach, and is a member of the World Rugby Hall of Fame. Serevi is renowned for his achievements in rugby sevens, while also enjoying a long career in fifteen-a-side rugby at both club and national team levels. Nicknamed "The Wizard" by commentators, he is widely considered to be the greatest rugby sevens player in the history of the game. A biography of Serevi titled "Waisale Serevi: King of Sevens" by Nick Darvenzi was published in 2018.
The Samoa national rugby union team is governed by the Samoa Rugby Union. The name Manu Samoa is in honour of a famous Samoan warrior. They perform a traditional Samoan challenge called the siva tau before each game. Samoa Rugby Union were formerly members of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance (PIRA) along with Fiji and Tonga. They are ranked 16th in the world.
The Fiji national rugby union team competes every four years at the Rugby World Cup, and their best performances were the 1987 and 2007 tournaments when they defeated Argentina and Wales respectively to reach the quarterfinals. Fiji also regularly plays test matches during the June and November test windows. Fiji also plays in the Pacific Tri-Nations, and has won the most Pacific Tri-Nations Championships of the three participating teams.
Fiji Rugby Union (FRU) is the governing body for the sport of rugby union in Fiji. It is divided into over 30 provincial unions. The Fiji Rugby Union is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance (PIRA), along with Samoa and Tonga. There are approximately 80,000 registered players from a total population of around 950,000.
The Fiji national rugby league team, nicknamed the Bati, has been participating in international rugby league football since 1992. The team is controlled by the governing body for rugby league in Fiji, Fiji National Rugby League (FNRL), which is currently a member of the Asia-Pacific Rugby League Confederation (APRLC). Fiji have thrice reached the semi-finals of the Rugby League World Cup, in 2008, 2013 and 2017, and are currently ranked 5th in the Rugby League International Federation's World Rankings.
The Fiji national rugby sevens team is one of the most successful rugby sevens teams in the world. Fiji has won the Hong Kong Sevens a record eighteen times since the tournament's inception in 1976. Fiji has also won the Rugby World Cup Sevens twice — in 1997 and 2005. Fiji also won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, the country's first Olympic medal in any event.
Nicky Tyrone Little in Tokoroa, New Zealand, is a rugby union footballer. He plays at fly-half. He is a nephew of All Blacks centre Walter Little, but represents Fiji at international level.
Queen Victoria School (QVS) is a school in Fiji. It was established in 1906 in Nasinu to provide education to the sons of Fijian Chiefs. It later moved to Nanukuloa in Ra when World War II broke out; then the school was moved to Lodoni where the two schools QVS and RKS operated side by side before eventually moving to its current site at Matavatucou, Tailevu. It then accepted students from Fijian villages based on their results in a secondary entrance examination.
The Fiji women's national rugby union team are a national sporting side of Fiji, representing them at rugby union. The side first played in 2006.
Sisaro Dautu Koyamaibole is a Fijian rugby union player. His usual position is at number eight. Koyamaibole also plays for Fiji, including playing in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, the 2007 Rugby World Cup and the 2011 Rugby World Cup, and has played for the Fiji Sevens in rugby sevens tournaments. At club level, he has represented Taranaki, Petrarca Padova, Toulon, Sale Sharks, Lyon OU, Bordeaux Bègles and currently plays for Brive.
Gabiriele Voduadua Lovobalavu is a Fijian rugby union player. He plays as a centre.
Lieutenant Leone Nakarawa is a Fijian rugby union footballer and Olympic gold medalist. He previously played as a Second-Row forward for the Glasgow Warriors and represents the Fijian national team in international rugby. In 2016, he signed for Racing 92. In 2018 he was awarded the European Professional Rugby Player of the Year accolade.
Henry Speight is a Fiji-born Australian rugby union fifteens and sevens player who has played for Hamilton Boys' High School team, the Fijian national junior team (2008), the Waikato provincial team, the Brumbies in Super Rugby (2011-2018), and currently plays for Ulster in the Guinness Pro14 (2018-ongoing) and for the Wallabies (2014-ongoing). His playing position is wing or centre.
Savenaca Taga is a Fijian former professional rugby league footballer who represented Fiji national rugby league team in the 1995 World Cup.
Ben Volavola is an Australian-born Fijian international rugby union footballer who plays for French Top 14 team Racing 92. He has previously played for Super Rugby clubs such as the Waratahs, Crusaders, and most recently the Rebels. Volavola can play as either a fly-half or full back.
Ilaitia Savai was a Fijian rugby union player. He played as a lock.
Elia Rokowailoa, known also as Willie Rokowailoa is a former Fijian dual-code rugby player. He played as fly-half. He was also a soldier.
Kaiava Salusalu, written also as Kaiyava Salusalu is a former Fijian rugby union and later, rugby league player. He played as centre. He is father of Semisi Tora, who plays for Nyanga Tigers and Fiji Bati.
Pita Naruma is a Fijian former rugby union player. He played as flanker.
