The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) is the National Olympic Committee and umbrella sports body for Fiji, founded in 1949 and headquartered in Suva, responsible for selecting and fielding Fiji's Olympic team from a Pacific island nation of under a million people. It oversees Fiji's Olympic sport federations and organized the country's landmark 2016 Rio Olympics campaign, in which the Fiji national rugby sevens team won the country's first-ever Olympic medal, a gold, in the sport's Olympic debut.
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Body Type (category)National Olympic Committee 1 Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC)
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was founded on 25 March 1949
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The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC; IOC Code: FIJ) was founded on 25 March 1949 and achieved International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognition on 20 September 1955.
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It is responsible for entering Fiji's representatives in the Olympic Games
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