Waisea Nacuqu (born 24 May 1993) is a

Fiji national rugby sevens team The Fiji National Rugby Sevens Team has competed in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Olympics. Fiji won the gold medal in the inaugural rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics in 2016 in Br ...

player. Nacuqu is known as "game breaker" and has on many occasions scored match winning tries. He is well known for his speed and scoring tries. Nacuqu is from Votua village near the township of Ba near the bank of Ba River. He refused to go back to school after Class 7 at Votua Catholic School and played Soccer for Tavua and rugby for the Westfield Tokatoka Barbarians in Nadi. Nacuqu scored the winning try in the 2014 Tokyo sevens final against South Africa. He was part of the Fiji sevens team that won a silver medal at the

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. He later won a gold medal at the

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. Nacuqu is a cousin for Former Fiji 7's player

Pio Tuwai Pio Tuwai is a Fiji rugby union player. He is currently playing for the Fiji sevens team. Tuwai played for the Sri Lankan Army in 2014. He returned to the Fiji sevens team in 2015 and played at the Hong Kong Sevens The Hong Kong Sevens () ...

and current Flying Fijian,

Josua Tuisova Josua Tuisova Ratulevu (born 4 February 1994) is a Fijian rugby union player. A wing or centre, he currently plays for Racing 92 in France's Top 14. He won a gold medal in sevens as part of the Fiji team at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Known for his ...

Awards and honours

* Player of the final 2018 Singapore Sevens.

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* * 1993 births Living people Fijian rugby sevens players People from Yasawa Rugby union players from Ba Province Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Fiji Olympic medalists in rugby sevens Olympic rugby sevens players for Fiji Rugby sevens players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Fiji Commonwealth Games medallists in rugby sevens Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{Fiji-stub