This article is about the 15-a-side version of the game, which was discontinued at the Summer Olympics after 1924, as well as the History of the subsequent efforts to re-include rugby fifteens. For the 7-a-side version of the game introduced as a result of those efforts for the 2016 Summer Olympics and beyond, see Rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics and Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Rugby union at the Summer Olympics
IOC Discipline Code
RUG
Governing body
WR
Events
2 (men: 1; women: 1)
Games
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Medalists
Rugby union has been a men's medal sport at the modern Summer Olympic Games, being played at four of the first seven competitions. The sport debuted at the 1900 Paris games where the gold medal was won by the host nation. It was subsequently featured at the London games in 1908, the Antwerp games in 1920 and the Paris games in 1924.
Shortly after the 1924 games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) dropped rugby union as an Olympic sport. Since then there have been numerous attempts to bring the sport back to the Olympic programme. In October 2009 the IOC voted at its session in Copenhagen to include the sevens version of the sport in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[1] The event made its debut in an Olympic programme at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.
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