The Kenya national rugby sevens team competes in the

World Rugby Sevens Series The World Rugby Men's Sevens Series is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as the IRB World Sevens Series, the com ...

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and the

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. They are currently one of the 15 "core teams" of the World Series, with a guaranteed place in all 10 events each season. Kenya recorded its first tournament win in the

after beating Fiji at the

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. Kenya has also been successful in the

, reaching the semifinals in

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and again in

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. The Kenya Sevens team is sometimes referred to by the Kenyan and international press as ''Shujaa'', a Swahili word meaning courage, confidence, bravery, or heroism. The Kenya national rugby sevens team is one of the more successful sporting teams representing Kenya. They have won the men's Team of the Year category six times at the Kenyan Sports Personality of the Year Awards: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, and 2016.

Honors

* Main Cup winners at the

* Main cup finalists at the ** 2009 Adelaide Sevens **

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** 2018 Canada Sevens **

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World Rugby Sevens Series

Kenya has competed in the World Series every year since the competition's inception in 1999–2000. Kenya's best season came in 2012–13 when they finished fifth in the Series.

Collins Injera Collins Injera (born 18 October 1986) is a Kenyan rugby player. He holds the second place for number of tries scored on the World Rugby Sevens Series with 271. He is known for his achievements with Kenyan national rugby sevens team. Career In ...

and

Humphrey Kayange Humphrey Kayange (born 20 July 1982) is a Kenyan former rugby union player and organic chemist. Kayange is known within the rugby sevens community, as he has produced some of the best performances for the Kenya national sevens side. He is a f ...

were both nominated for World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year in 2009, but lost to England's Ollie Phillips.

Tournament history

Summer Olympic Games

Rugby World Cup Sevens

Commonwealth Games

Africa Cup Sevens

Safari Sevens

Kenya has won the Safari Sevens ten times: * 1997 versus

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Schoolboys 24–27, * 2000 Kenya 'A' (''Shujaa'') won, defeating

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RFC, 26–24 * 2003 versus

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29–7, * 2004 versus

10–7, * 2008 versus

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35–12, * 2009 versus

40–19, * 2010 versus

17–12, * 2014 versus Australia Renegades 40–7, * 2016 versus Samurai International 38–21 * 2019 versus Springbok Sevens 19–12.

Team

Current squad

Former squads

Squad for the 2017–18 Sevens Series

Player records

The following refers to statistics generated in the World Rugby Sevens Series. Players in bold are still active. Collins Injera was briefly ranked the #1 player in the world in tries scored, until his try-scoring record was surpassed by England's

Dan Norton Daniel John Norton (born 22 March 1988) is a former rugby union player. He is the leading all-time try scorer in the World Rugby Sevens Series with over 350 tries, beating the previous record of 244 held by Kenya's Collins Injera at the 2017 H ...

References

External links

Official websiteWorldRugby profile
{{National sports teams of Kenya National rugby sevens teams Sevens