The Vanuatu national rugby sevens team is

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...

's representative in rugby sevens.

History

At the 1999

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held in

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, Vanuatu won its second rugby medal, defeating

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for the bronze in the rugby 7s. The first bronze medal had been won for the rugby 15's in 1966, as New Hebrides. In the 2000 Telecom Oceania Sevens held in Rarotonga, Vanuatu went on to beat

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31–0 to win the Bowl. The tournament was a qualifier for the

2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens The 2001 Rugby World Cup Sevens was the third edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens and was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina. New Zealand defeated Australia to win the tournament for the first time. This was the first major rugby event ever held ...

and the last World Cup place was taken by the

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, who won the Oceania Sevens Cup. At the 2011 Pacific Games, Vanuatu finished in 9th place, defeating

7–17. In 2023, at the Oceania Sevens Championship, they played the Oceania Barbarians in the ninth place playoff and finished in tenth place.

Players

Current Squad

Vanuatu's squad to the

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in Honiara,

Previous Squads

Tournament History

Pacific Games

Oceania Sevens

Notes

References

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