13th All African Games: Accra2023 Updates And Medal Table

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Rank	NOC				Total
1	Egypt	61	22	20	103
2	Nigeria	22	13	19	54
3	Algeria	19	24	28	71
4	South Africa	19	20	32	71
5	Tunisia	6	18	19	43
6	Mauritius	3	5	3	11
7	Madagascar	3	2	7	12
8	Eritrea	3	2	4	9
9	Morocco	2	6	5	13
10	Libya	1	11	1	13
11	Namibia	1	3	3	7
	Uganda	1	3	3	7
13	Ghana	1	3	1	5
14	Zimbabwe	1	1	2	4
15	Zambia	1	0	3	4
16	African Judo Union	1	0	0	1
17	Cameroon	0	3	6	9
18	Côte d’Ivoire	0	3	0	3
19	Senegal	0	2	8	10
20	Angola	0	1	3	4
21	Mozambique	0	1	0	1
22	Botswana	0	0	4	4
	Republic of the Congo	0	0	4	4
	The Democratic Republic of the Congo	0	0	4	4
25	Burkina Faso	0	0	3	3
26	Kenya	0	0	2	2
27	Central African Republic	0	0	1	1
	Guinea-Bissau	0	0	1	1
	Rwanda	0	0	1	1

Ghana is hosting the 13th all African Games Regarded as African Olympics, in three different locations – the capital Accra, in Kumasi and Cape Coast – after securing the hosting right against Burkina Faso’s Ouagadougou and Nigeria’s Abuja.

Accra Ghana is hosting the 2023 All African Games from 8-23 March and so far after the one week of the tournament, Egypt is leading winning medals with a total of 84 medals including 47 gold, 19 silver and 18 bronze.

Four years ago in Rabat, when Morocco hosted the tournament, Egypt also led the with 260 medals and 94 gold medals, more than, twice distance to as many as the second place nation, Nigeria, with 46 gold medals. That year three other nations also broke the 10 gold medal barrier after the one week of tournament. Nigeria is in the second position with 16 golds and 51 medals, Algeria is third won 15 gold and 55 medals and South Africa has equally won 12 golds and 49 medals.

In addition Eight other nations have emerged as African champions at this 13th All African Games, 3 from Mauritius and Madagascar, 2 from Tunisia and Morocco, and while 1 each from Uganda, Namibia, Zimbabwe and host country Ghana.

The leading team Egypt has several athletes with triple champions, including swimmer Marwan Elkamash (200 freestyle, 400 freestyle and 800 freestyle) weightlifters Elaraby Elsayed Ali Elsayed Attia (men’s 61 kg clean and jerk, snatch and overall) and Basma Ramadan Abdelwahab (women’s 45 kg clean and jerk, snatch and total). Bassem Amin was the best in chess in both the men’s blitz and men’s rapid.

Nigeria on the other hand also has three triple gold medallists in weightlifting. Edidiong Umoafia (men’s -67kg in the clean and jerk, snatch and overall), as well as Adijat Olarinoye (women’s -55kg) and Rafiatu Lawal (men’s -59kg). Algeria’s Fardjallah Samir did the same in the men’s -73kg and Madagascar’s Eric Herman Andriantsitohaina won gold in three weightlifting events in the women’s -55kg.

Moreover others in the list from 11th position to 20th position are Namibia, Zimbabwe, Libya, Senegal, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Angola, Republic of the Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burkina Faso.

The African swimmers Caitlin Ann De Lange (100m freestyle and 50m backstroke) and Catherine Francis Van Rensburg (400m freestyle and 1,500 freestyle) also won two gold medals in this competition in Ghana. This tournament have more two weeks to go after the official opening on 4 March. The All African Games in Ghana will be concluded on Sunday 20 March of 2024.