The Kenya national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Commonwealth Games. 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 World Rugby Sevens Series after beating Fiji at the

2016 Singapore Sevens The 2016 Singapore Sevens was the eighth tournament of the 2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series. The tournament was played on 16–17 April 2016 at National Stadium in Singapore. It was the fourth time the Singapore Sevens The Singapore Seve ...

. Kenya has also been successful in the Rugby World Cup Sevens, 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

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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

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Awards: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, and 2016.

Honors

* Main Cup winners at the

* Main cup finalists at the **

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2013 Wellington Sevens The 2013 Wellington Sevens was the 14th edition of the tournament as part of the 2012–13 IRB Sevens World Series. It was hosted in Wellington, New Zealand, at the Westpac Stadium. England defeated Kenya 24–19 in the final to win the title. ...

2018 Canada Sevens The 2018 Canada Sevens was the third edition of the Canada Sevens tournament, and the sixth tournament of the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series. The tournament was played on 10–11 March at BC Place in Vancouver. Format The teams were drawn in ...

2018 Hong Kong Sevens The 2018 Hong Kong Sevens was the 43rd edition of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament, and the seventh tournament of the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series. The performance from this tournament determined the first fourteen seedings of the 2018 Rug ...

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

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when they finished fifth in the Series. Collins Injera 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

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ten times: * 1997 versus Cumbria Schoolboys 24–27, * 2000 Kenya 'A' (''Shujaa'') won, defeating

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RFC, 26–24 * 2003 versus Emerging Springboks 29–7, * 2004 versus Emerging Springboks 10–7, * 2008 versus Zimbabwe 35–12, * 2009 versus Emerging Springboks 40–19, * 2010 versus Emerging Springboks 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