2007 All-Africa Games

IX All-Africa Games
Host city Algiers, Algeria
Nations participating 52
Events 24 sports
Opening ceremony 11 July 2007
Closing ceremony 23 July 2007
Officially opened by Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Main venue Stade 5 Juillet 1962
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A map of Algeria with Algiers marked in the north of the country.
Algiers
Location of Algiers in Algeria.

The 9th All-Africa Games took place between 11 and 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there. Besides Algeria, only Nigeria has hosted the event twice, but with different host cities. 4793 athletes took part to these games.[1]

Competitions

The following 24 sports were competed:

Paralympic sports: Athletics, Basketball and Goalball

Three disciplines, Baseball, Softball and Field Hockey were dropped by the hosts, since these sports are hardly played in Algeria and consequently lack suitable facilities.[2] The hockey competition would have doubled as qualifier for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, thus African Hockey Federation organised a separate olympic qualifying tournament in Nairobi, Kenya, held simultaneously with the All-Africa Games.[3]

Water Polo was not competed due to lack of teams.[4] It was supposed to be an Olympic qualifier.

Medals

      Host nation

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Egypt 746263199
2 Algeria 705876204
3 South Africa 616653180
4 Nigeria 505554159
5 Tunisia 484157146
6 Kenya 13151038
7 Senegal 8122646
8 Zimbabwe 78823
9 Botswana 62513
10 Cameroon 461727
11 Ethiopia 451019
12 Angola 41712
13 Libya 451019
14 Ghana 3101225
15 Eritrea 3126
16 Sudan 3014
17 Seychelles 36111
18 DR Congo 2215
19 Zambia 1269
20 Gambia 2136
21 Lesotho 1124
22 Mali 1034
23 Uganda 1012
24 Mozambique 1001
25 Ivory Coast 031215
26 Burkina Faso 0213
27 Congo 0134
 Madagascar 0134
29 Guinea 0123
 Malawi 0123
31 Namibia 0112
32 São Tomé and Príncipe 0101
33 Tanzania 0101
34 Benin 0044
35 Guinea-Bissau 0033
36 Central African Republic 0011
 Togo 0011
Total

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