Kenya national rugby union team (sevens)
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| Full name | Kenya national sevens team | ||
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| Ground(s) | RFUEA Ground | ||
| Coach(es) | Benjamin Ayimba | ||
| Top scorer | Collins Injera (1039) | ||
| Most tries | Collins Injera (204) | ||
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| World Cup Sevens | |||
| Appearances | 4 (First in 2001) | ||
| Best result | 3rd place, 2009 | ||
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The Kenya national rugby union 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 ten events each season.
They are also hosts at the annual Safari Sevens which have been held in Nairobi, Kenya every year since 1996.
Kenya have sometimes mistakenly been referred to as Shujaa by the international press; in fact Shujaa are the Kenya sevens 'A' (or second) team. Shujaa is a Swahili word (also used as a boys' name) meaning courage, confidence, bravery, prowess or heroism.
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Honours
Semi finalists at the 2013 world cup sevens (Russia)
- Winners of the Plate competition at the 2007 South Africa Sevens.
- Won the Team of the Year category for men at the Kenyan Sports Personality of the Year awards:
- Safari Sevens winners
- 1997 versus Cumbria Schoolboys 24–27,
- 2000 Kenya 'A' (Shujaa) won, defeating Bristol University 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.
Tournament history
A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Kenya
Summer Olympics
| Olympics Games record | |||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | L | D | |||
 2016 |
Qualifed | ||||||||
| Total | 0 Titles | 1/1 | - | - | - | - | |||
Rugby World Cup Sevens
| World Cup record | |||||||||
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| Tournament | Round | Position | Played | Won | Lost | Drew | |||
 1993 |
Did not qualify | ||||||||
 1997 |
Did not participate | ||||||||
 2001 |
Bowl Semi-finalsts | =19th | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | |||
| 2005 |
Bowl Semi-finalsts | =19th | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | |||
 2009 |
Semi-finalists | =3rd | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | |||
 2013 |
Semi-finalists | 4th | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | |||
 2018 |
Qualified | ||||||||
| Total | 0 Titles | 4/6 | 25 | 11 | 14 | 0 | |||
Current squad
Squad to 2014 Commonwealth Games:[3]
- Andrew Amonde (c)
- Collins Injera (vc)
- Oscar Ouma
- Martin Owila
- Patrice Agunda
- Felix Ayange
- Billy Odhiambo
- Humphrey Kayange
- Tonny Owuor
- Michael Wanjala
- Michael Agevi
- Dennis Ombachi
Notable former players
- Lucas Onyango
- Joshua Kinge
- Oscar Osir
- Benjamin Ayimba
See also
- Rugby union in Kenya
- Kenya national rugby union team
- Sevens World Series
- Rugby World Cup Sevens
- Kenya Sevens
- Safari Sevens
References
- ↑ SOYA Awards – 2007 winners
- ↑ KBC, 24 January 2009: Jelimo and Wanjiru crowned best sports personalities
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
