African Games 1978

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III. Africa Games
in Algiers / Algeria
Venue: Algiers , Algeria
Opening ceremony: July 13, 1978
Closing ceremony: July 28, 1978
Competitions: 124 decisions in 12 sports

1 basketball
2 boxing
3 soccer
4 handball
5 judo
6 athletics
7 cycling
8 wrestling
9 swimming
10 tennis
11 table tennis
12 volleyball

Countries: 45
Athletes: 3,000

The III. African Games , by 2012 Africa Games called (French .: III e Jeux africains , Eng .: 3rd All-Africa Games ) took place from 13 July to 28 July 1978 in Algiers , capital of Algeria , instead. Houari Boumedienne officially opened the games on July 13, 1978 in the Stade 5 Juillet 1962 in Algiers. About 3,000 athletes from 45 out of 49 independent African countries participated in the sports competitions. As in previous years, there were athletes from South Africa because of the ongoing apartheidexcluded from games in the country. There were competitions in 12 sports with 124 decisions. The teams from Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria and Kenya won the most gold medals.

basketball

Medals

competition gold silver bronze
Men SenegalSenegal Senegal Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast TunisiaTunisia Tunisia
Women SenegalSenegal Senegal CameroonCameroon Cameroon NigeriaNigeria Nigeria

Placements

competition 4th Place 5th place 6th place 7th place
Men AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria NigeriaNigeria Nigeria MauritiusMauritius Mauritius Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt
Women AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt - -

Finals (men)

game encounter Result
Semi-final 1 SenegalSenegal Senegal versus TunisiaTunisiaTunisia  75: 58
Semi-final 2 Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast versus AlgeriaAlgeriaAlgeria  83: 74
3rd place match TunisiaTunisia Tunisia versus AlgeriaAlgeriaAlgeria  76: 75
final SenegalSenegal Senegal versus Ivory CoastIvory CoastIvory Coast  87: 83

Boxing

Medals

Weight class gold country silver country Victory after bronze country 4th Place country
up to 48 kg Francis Musankabala Zambia 1964Zambia Zambia Stephen Muchoki KenyaKenya Kenya 3: 2 Jean-Paul Makaya GabonGabon Gabon Ahmed Said AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria
up to 51 kg Lucky Mutale Zambia 1964Zambia Zambia Emmanuel Mlundwa TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania Points Hassan Sheriff Ethiopia 1975Ethiopia Ethiopia Mbarek Zarrogui MoroccoMorocco Morocco
up to 54 kg Najib Zeddam TunisiaTunisia Tunisia Ounes AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria Points Douglas Maina KenyaKenya Kenya William Azanor NigeriaNigeria Nigeria
up to 57 kg Azumah Nelson GhanaGhana Ghana Modest Napunyi KenyaKenya Kenya Points Christopher Ossai NigeriaNigeria Nigeria John Sichula Zambia 1964Zambia Zambia
up to 60 kg Abdulkarim Haruna NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Komu Mwangi KenyaKenya Kenya Points Noureddine Segmani MoroccoMorocco Morocco Adjili LiberiaLiberia Liberia
up to 63.5 kg Peter Wanyoke KenyaKenya Kenya Abderahim Soulhi MoroccoMorocco Morocco Points Lucas Msomba TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania John Mugabi UgandaUganda Uganda
up to 67 kg Vincent Byarugaba UgandaUganda Uganda Moro Tashiro GhanaGhana Ghana KO 2nd round Enock Chama Zambia 1964Zambia Zambia Philip Mathenge KenyaKenya Kenya
up to 71 kg Mourad Fergane AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria Abdelzaaher Ayyoud Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt WHERE. Bouchlba TunisiaTunisia Tunisia el-Ouidaoui LiberiaLiberia Liberia
up to 75 kg Stephen Moi KenyaKenya Kenya Quattara Upper VoltaUpper Volta Upper Volta RSC 3rd RD Abdelganad Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt John Martins NigeriaNigeria Nigeria
up to 81 kg Ishiaku Adamu NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Khalil Ali Khalti Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt WHERE. Taoufik Belbouli TunisiaTunisia Tunisia Napoleon GhanaGhana Ghana
over 81 kg Joseph Adamah Mensah GhanaGhana Ghana Joseph Kabegi KenyaKenya Kenya RSC 1st round el-Tchanaoui Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt Lodovico Owiny UgandaUganda Uganda

Soccer

Participation in the final tournament of the African Games is basically possible for all nations on the continent. First, the teams have to prevail in qualifying tournaments. The soccer tournament has been a U-23 competition since 1991. In 2003, in addition to the men's tournament, a women's tournament was also held for the first time.

The game between Egypt and Libya was canceled. The Libyan team was disqualified from the tournament for attacking Egyptian players. The Egyptian team stopped because of the attack by the Libyan players and because of the lack of protection from the Algerian host. This brought the team from Malawi to the semi-finals. Ali Bencheikh (Algeria) was named the best player of the tournament .

Medals

competition gold silver bronze
Men AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria NigeriaNigeria Nigeria GhanaGhana Ghana

Placements

competition 4th Place 5th place 6th place 7th place 8th place
Men MalawiMalawi Malawi Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt CameroonCameroon Cameroon MaliMali Mali Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya

Finals

game encounter Result
Semi-final 1 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria versus GhanaGhanaGhana  2-0
Semi-final 2 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria versus MalawiMalawiMalawi  1-0
3rd place match GhanaGhana Ghana versus MalawiMalawiMalawi  1-0
final AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria versus NigeriaNigeriaNigeria  1-0

There was no women's soccer tournament in 1978. The first women’s tournament at the African Games did not take place until 2003 in Abuja / Nigeria .

Handball

Medals

competition gold silver bronze
Men AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria TunisiaTunisia Tunisia CameroonCameroon Cameroon
Women AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria CameroonCameroon Cameroon TunisiaTunisia Tunisia

Placements

competition 4th Place 5th place 6th place 7th place 8th place
Men MadagascarMadagascar Madagascar SenegalSenegal Senegal Benin People's RepublicPeople's Republic of Benin Benin Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast
Women Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt - -

Finals (men)

game encounter Result
Semi-final 1 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria versus MadagascarMadagascarMadagascar  28:14
Semi-final 2 TunisiaTunisia Tunisia versus CameroonCameroonCameroon  21:18
3rd place match CameroonCameroon Cameroon versus MadagascarMadagascarMadagascar  36:20
final AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria versus TunisiaTunisiaTunisia  20: 13

Finals (women)

game encounter Result
Semi-final 1 CameroonCameroon Cameroon versus Ivory CoastIvory CoastIvory Coast  14:12
Semi-final 2 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria versus TunisiaTunisiaTunisia  9: 8
3rd place match TunisiaTunisia Tunisia versus Ivory CoastIvory CoastIvory Coast  19: 6
final AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria versus CameroonCameroonCameroon  17:12

Judo

Medals

competition gold silver bronze bronze
Super lightweight Moussa AlgeriaAlgeriaAlgeria  Aider SenegalSenegalSenegal  Bole Ivory CoastIvory CoastIvory Coast  Driddi TunisiaTunisiaTunisia 
Medium lightweight Lahcene AlgeriaAlgeriaAlgeria  Bengamra TunisiaTunisiaTunisia  Said Sabi EgyptEgypt 1972Egypt  Sasly MoroccoMoroccoMorocco 
Lightweight (up to 71 kg) Benbrahim AlgeriaAlgeriaAlgeria  Belmahfoud MoroccoMoroccoMorocco  Wade SenegalSenegalSenegal  Nouoayi TunisiaTunisiaTunisia 
Medium weight (up to 78 kg) Ouattara Ivory CoastIvory CoastIvory Coast  Iddedir MoroccoMoroccoMorocco  Mahdjoub TunisiaTunisiaTunisia  Imansouren AlgeriaAlgeriaAlgeria 
Middle weight (up to 86 kg) Abbad AlgeriaAlgeriaAlgeria  Zouagh MoroccoMoroccoMorocco  Praise CameroonCameroonCameroon  Dione SenegalSenegalSenegal 
Light heavyweight (up to 95 kg) Mahmoud EgyptEgypt 1972Egypt  Goumrassa AlgeriaAlgeriaAlgeria  Ewane CameroonCameroonCameroon  Djira SenegalSenegalSenegal 
Heavy weight (over 95 kg) Kote SenegalSenegalSenegal  Silas CameroonCameroonCameroon  Besbes TunisiaTunisiaTunisia  Bellatar MoroccoMoroccoMorocco 
Universal weight Kote SenegalSenegalSenegal  Bellatar MoroccoMoroccoMorocco  Silas CameroonCameroonCameroon  Mahrous EgyptEgypt 1972Egypt 

athletics

Medals

  • Men - running competitions
discipline gold country time silver country time bronze country time
100 m Amadou Meïté Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast 10.35 Peter Okodogbe NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 10.45 Ohene Karikari GhanaGhana Ghana 10.46
200 m El Kashief Hassan SudanSudan Sudan 20.77 Patrice Ouré Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast 20.90 Roland Joe Siai-Siai NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 20.98
400 m El Kashief Hassan SudanSudan Sudan 45.32 Dele Udo NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 45.65 Cyril Etoori UgandaUganda Uganda 45.65
800 m James Maina KenyaKenya Kenya 1: 47.14 Amar Brahmia AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 1: 47.54 Peter Lemashon KenyaKenya Kenya 1: 47.83
1500 m Filbert Bayi TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania 3: 36.21 Wilson Waigwa KenyaKenya Kenya 3: 36.48 Amar Brahmia AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 3: 37.33
5000 m Yohannes Mohamed Ethiopia 1975Ethiopia Ethiopia 13: 44.39 Mike Musyoki KenyaKenya Kenya 13: 44.79 Suleiman Nyambui TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania 13: 49.60
10,000 m Henry Rono KenyaKenya Kenya 27: 58.9 Mike Musyoki KenyaKenya Kenya 28: 05.2 Mohamed Kedir Ethiopia 1975Ethiopia Ethiopia 28: 42.0
marathon Richard Mabuza SwazilandSwaziland Swaziland 2:21:53 Dereje Nedi Ethiopia 1975Ethiopia Ethiopia 2:23:08 Girma Guebre Ethiopia 1975Ethiopia Ethiopia 2:27:35
110 m hurdles Fatwell Kimaiyo KenyaKenya Kenya 13.89 Philip Sang KenyaKenya Kenya 02/14 Thomas Nnakwe NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 14.35
400 m hurdles Daniel Kimaiyo KenyaKenya Kenya 49.48 John Akii-Bua UgandaUganda Uganda 49.52 Peter Rwamuhanda UgandaUganda Uganda 50.18
3000 m obstacle Henry Rono KenyaKenya Kenya 8: 15.82 James Munyala KenyaKenya Kenya 8: 25.68 Kip Rono KenyaKenya Kenya 8: 26.38
20 km walking Benamar Kachkouche AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 1:39:21 Dog ture Ethiopia 1975Ethiopia Ethiopia 1:39:51 Elisha Kasuka KenyaKenya Kenya 1:43:21
4 × 100 m GhanaGhana Ghana 39.24 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 39.39 Congo People's Republic People's Republic of the Congo People's Republic of the Congo 39.79
4 × 400 m NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 3: 03.24 UgandaUganda Uganda 3: 04.20 KenyaKenya Kenya 3: 05.92
  • Men - jump, push, throwing disciplines, all-around
discipline gold country power silver country power bronze country power
high jump Paul Ngadjadoum ChadChad Chad 2.16 Hamid Sahil AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 2.14 Amadou Dia Bâ SenegalSenegal Senegal 2.08
Pole vault Lakhdar Rahal AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 5.00 Ahmed Rezki AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 4.80 Mohamed Bensaad AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 4.80
Long jump Charlton Ehizuelen NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 7.92 Fidelis Ndyabagye UgandaUganda Uganda 7.75 Emmanuel Mifetu GhanaGhana Ghana 7.57
Triple jump Charlton Ehizuelen NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 16.51 Abdoulaye Diallo SenegalSenegal Senegal 16.29 Said Saad AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 15.93
Shot put Youssef Nagui Asaad Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 18.88 Namakoro Niaré MaliMali Mali 17.16 Emad Fayez Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 16.93
Discus throw Namakoro Niaré MaliMali Mali 58.02 Abderrazak Ben Hassine TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 55.74 Tiékité Somet Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast 51.86
Hammer throw Youssef Ben Abid TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 54.90 Abdellah Boubekeur AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 54.74 Noureddine Bendifallah AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 52.20
Javelin throw Justin Arop UgandaUganda Uganda 76.94 Ali Memmi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 71.28 John Mayaka KenyaKenya Kenya 70.76
Decathlon Mohamed Bensaad AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 7338 points Brown Ebewele NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 6876 points Alain Smaïl AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 6822 points
  • Women - running competitions
discipline gold country time silver country time bronze country time
100 m Hannah Afriyie GhanaGhana Ghana 11.50 Utifon Ufon Oko NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.55 Kemi Sandgodeyi NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 11.92
200 m Hannah Afriyie GhanaGhana Ghana 23.01 Kehinde Vaughan NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 23.70 Ruth Waithera KenyaKenya Kenya 23.91
400 m Kehinde Vaughan NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 53.86 Ruth Kyalisima UgandaUganda Uganda 54.49 Georgina Aidou GhanaGhana Ghana 54.84
800 m Tekla Chemabwai KenyaKenya Kenya 2: 04.84 Sakina Boutamine AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 2: 05.64 Celestine N'Drin Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast 2: 06.08
1500 m Sakina Boutamine AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 4: 16.43 Anna Kiprop KenyaKenya Kenya 4: 19.59 Rose Thomson KenyaKenya Kenya 4: 07/20
100 m hurdles Judy Bell-Gam NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 13.67 Ruth Kyalisima UgandaUganda Uganda 13.92 Bella Bell-Gam NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 13.99
4 × 100 m NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 44.63 GhanaGhana Ghana 45.19 UgandaUganda Uganda 46.77
4 × 400 m GhanaGhana Ghana 3: 35.55 KenyaKenya Kenya 3: 39.27 UgandaUganda Uganda 3: 39.94

Women - jump, push, throwing disciplines, all-around

discipline gold country power silver country power bronze country power
high jump Modupe Oshikoya NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 1.77 Kawther Akrémi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 1.73 Emilia Blavo GhanaGhana Ghana 1.68
Long jump Modupe Oshikoya NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 6.32 Jeanette Yawson GhanaGhana Ghana 6.29 Bella Bell-Gam NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 6.12
Shot put Joyce Aciro UgandaUganda Uganda 14.47 Veronica Baawah GhanaGhana Ghana 12.88 Herina Malit KenyaKenya Kenya 12.70
Discus throw Fathia Jerbi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 46.56 Helen Alyek UgandaUganda Uganda 45.90 Martha Jugah NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 45.02
Javelin throw Eunice Nekesa KenyaKenya Kenya 51.58 Agnès Tchuinté CameroonCameroon Cameroon 49.16 Constance Rwabiryagye UgandaUganda Uganda 45.52
Pentathlon Bella Bell-Gam NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 3809 points Margaret Bisereko UgandaUganda Uganda 3788 points Madeleine Bonzi Upper VoltaUpper Volta Upper Volta 3427 points

Cycling race

Medals

discipline gold silver bronze
Single road race Adalaoui Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Nedjari Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
El-Aichi Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
100 km team road race Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria MoroccoMorocco Morocco
Team chase AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya MoroccoMorocco Morocco
1000 m time trial Hamza Farouk Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
Ghariani Libya
Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 
El Bouhi Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 

Women's cycling races have only been held at the Africa Games since 2003 .

Wrestling

Medals

Freestyle gold silver bronze
up to 48 kg Noredine Moucheffaâ Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Salem Blel Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
Bensmain Bensmain Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
up to 52 kg Mohamed Hachaichi Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
Mohamed Karouane Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Faouzi Chelly Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
up to 57 kg Ali Lachkar Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Atane Gogonte Nigeria
NigeriaNigeria 
Amor Sghaier Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
up to 62 kg Nouredine Kellal Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
Ahmed Gharbi Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
Zayed Libya
Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 
up to 68 kg Lakhdar Allali Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
Ahmed Nouaïri Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
Fath-Allah Libya
Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 
up to 74 kg El-Naoui Libya
Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 
Brahim Toughza Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Rabah Kessou Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
up to 82 kg Ali Abdellaoui Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
Slimane Medyri Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
Kally Agogo Nigeria
NigeriaNigeria 
up to 90 kg Ameur Dridi Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
Jean-Claude Biloa Cameroon
CameroonCameroon 
Ali Senouci Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
up to 100 kg Khelifa Ben Naceur Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
Achour Maghrebi Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
Benelli Cameroon
CameroonCameroon 
over 100 kg Hmida Ahmed Ismail Libya
Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 
Ali Gharbi Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
Mehdi Yousfi Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
Greco-Roman style gold silver bronze
up to 48 kg Noredine Moucheffaâ Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Mahmoud Fathallah Baraket Egypt
Egypt 1972Egypt 
Salem Blel Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
up to 52 kg Ahmed Abbas Hussein Egypt
Egypt 1972Egypt 
Mohamed Karmous Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Faouzi Chelly Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
up to 57 kg Ali Lachkar Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Ahmed Mohamed Chahine Egypt
Egypt 1972Egypt 
Chedly Nefzaoui Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
up to 62 kg Mokhtar Fetouaki Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Makhlouf Hamdane Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
Chaaban Abdelwahab Chaaban Egypt
Egypt 1972Egypt 
up to 68 kg Mohamed Moualek Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
Mohamed Abdessatar Hammad Egypt
Egypt 1972Egypt 
Ali Mohamed Libya
Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 
up to 74 kg Brahim Toughza Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
Moustafa Abdelfattah El Feki Egypt
Egypt 1972Egypt 
Ezzedine Dridi Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
up to 82 kg Mohamed El Ashram Egypt
Egypt 1972Egypt 
Ali Abdellaoui Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
Achour Maghrebi Algeria
AlgeriaAlgeria 
up to 90 kg Ameur Dridi Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
Hate Ibrahim Mouawadh Egypt
Egypt 1972Egypt 
M'barek Erramy Morocco
MoroccoMorocco 
up to 100 kg Hmida Ahmed Ismail Libya
Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 
Ahmed Melligi Abdelkarim Egypt
Egypt 1972Egypt 
Khelifa Ben Naceur Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
over 100 kg Ali Gharbi Tunisia
TunisiaTunisia 
Moustafa Abdel-Sayed Yahya Egypt
Egypt 1972Egypt 
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swim

The Tunisian Myriam Mizouni won 8 gold medals for women, and Ali Gharbi 8 gold medals for men and 1 silver medal.

Medals (men)

discipline gold country time silver country time bronze country time
100 m freestyle Ali Gharbi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 53.94 Bernard Gueye Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast 55.86 John Ebito NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 55.92
200 m freestyle Ali Gharbi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 1: 56.20 Habib Soukni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 2: 02.77 Khaled Abougabel Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 2: 03.59
400 m freestyle Ali Gharbi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 4: 22.33 Khaled Abougabel Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 4: 23.11 Habib Soukni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 4: 24.79
1500 m freestyle Ali Gharbi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 16: 45.81 Samir Bouchelaghem TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 17: 15.27 Habib Soukni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 55.92
100 m butterfly John Ebito NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 58.51 Ali Gharbi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 60.44 Bernard Gueye Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast 60.71
200 m butterfly Samir Bouchelaghem TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 2: 14.12 Medji Lachine Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 2: 16.60 Ahmed Eib Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 2: 17.99
100 m chest Mohamed Farag Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 1: 11.68 Ashref Farah Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 1: 12.53 Chose Chadly MoroccoMorocco Morocco 1: 13.34
200 m chest Hadi Belhacene TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 2: 39.87 Djamel Yahiouche AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 2: 41.75 Mohamed Farag Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 2: 43.61
100 m back Ali Gharbi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 1: 03.37 Cherif Mor Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 1: 06.25 Youssef Sahnoun AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 1: 06.27
200 m back Ali Gharbi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 2: 20.20 Samir Bouchelaghem TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 2: 21.68 John Ebito Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 2: 23.16
400 m layers Samir Bouchelaghem TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 5: 01.48 Cherfi Amnie Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 5: 08.73 Youssef Sahnoun AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 5: 13.43
4 × 100 m freestyle TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 4: 13.17 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 4: 16.76 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 4: 17.32
4 × 200 m freestyle TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 8: 25.23 Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 8: 32.53 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 8: 36.78

Medals (women)

discipline gold country time silver country time bronze country time
100 m freestyle Myriam Mizouni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 1: 02.45 Zaza Affane AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 1: 03.49 Azza Sandjar Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 1: 03.73
200 m freestyle Myriam Mizouni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 2: 13.45 Azza Sandjar Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 2: 16.45 Amina Chenik TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 2: 41.23
400 m freestyle Myriam Mizouni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 4: 37.46 Azza Sandjar Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 4: 43.11 Zaza Affane AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 4: 49.58
800 m freestyle Myriam Mizouni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 9: 39.66 Azza Sandjar Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 9: 46.09 Meriem Farid Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 10: 02.52
100 m butterfly Zaza Affane AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 1: 09.17 Lamia Nabil Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 1: 10.09 Myriam Mizouni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 1: 10.62
200 m butterfly Faten Afifi Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 2: 34.36 Zaza Affane AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 2: 35.45 Myriam Mizouni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 2: 36.17
100 m chest Enuwuzo Ngozi NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 1: 22.39 Royal Ebi NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 1: 24.36 Donyazad Hakem AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 1: 24.57
200 m chest Enuwuzo Ngozi NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 3: 00.62 Fatha Bousoufiane AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 3: 02.95 Rym Zouaoui TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 3: 03.67
100 m back Myriam Mizouni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 1: 12.23 Cherif Mor TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 1: 12.93 Youssef Sahnoun TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 1: 14.50
200 m back Khalal Gharibi TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 2: 37.98 Lamia Nabil Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 2: 40.06 Amina Chenik TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 2: 41.23
400 m layers Myriam Mizouni TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 5: 25.45 Affane Zaza AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 5: 32.60 Meriem Farid Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 5: 38.37
4 × 100 m freestyle TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 4: 55.57 Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 5: 00.97 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 5: 04.04
4 × 100 m layers TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 4: 19.67 Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 4: 23.67 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 4: ??. 84

tennis

Medals

singles gold silver bronze
Ladies KenyaKenya Janes Davies KenyaKenya Suzanne Wakkhungu AlgeriaAlgeria Hassan Hoda
Egypt 1972Egypt 
Men's NigeriaNigeria Emonitie NigeriaNigeria N'Moh MoroccoMorocco Dislam Odizor
NigeriaNigeria 
Double gold silver bronze
Ladies KenyaKenya Kenya
Janes Davies
Suzanne Wakkhungu
AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria
Mahmoudi
Hassan
Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt
O. Addellah
H. Addellah Nigeria Nadozi Omelene
NigeriaNigeria 

Men's NigeriaNigeria Nigeria
Odizor
Omonetia
NigeriaNigeria Nigeria
N'Moh
Adjahi
AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria
Mahmoudi
Boudjemline Tunisia Soheir Marrouki
TunisiaTunisia 

Table tennis

Medals

competition gold silver bronze
Men singles NigeriaNigeria Kasali Lasisi NigeriaNigeria Atanda Musa TogoTogo Dodji Ananou
Men doubles NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Sunday Eboh / Adum Defanti TogoTogo Togo Kasali Lasisi / Atta Defanti ?
Men team NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt TogoTogo Togo
Women singles NigeriaNigeria Olawunmi Majekodunmi GhanaGhana Esther Lamptey TogoTogo Dede D'Almeida
Women doubles NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Ethel Jacks / Olawunmi Majekodunmi GhanaGhana Ghana Helen Amankwa / Esther Lamptey TogoTogo Togo
Women team NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt GhanaGhana Ghana
Mixed doubles TogoTogo Togo Dede d'Almeida / Dodji Ananou NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Ethel Jacks / Sunday Eboh GhanaGhana Ghana Esther Lampteyy / Joseph Quansah

volleyball

Medals

competition gold silver bronze
Men TunisiaTunisia Tunisia NigeriaNigeria Nigeria AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria
Women AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria NigeriaNigeria Nigeria GhanaGhana Ghana

Placements

competition 4th Place 5th place 6th place 7th place 8th place
Men Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast CameroonCameroon Cameroon MauritiusMauritius Mauritius Guinea-aGuinea Guinea Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt
Women TunisiaTunisia Tunisia Guinea-aGuinea Guinea CameroonCameroon Cameroon Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt -

Finals (men)

game encounter Result sentences Points
Semi-final 1 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria versus Ivory CoastIvory CoastIvory Coast  3:? ? ?
Semi-final 2 TunisiaTunisia Tunisia versus AlgeriaAlgeriaAlgeria  3:? ? ?
3rd place match AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria versus Ivory CoastIvory CoastIvory Coast  3: 2 6:15 - 15: 9 - 9:15 - 15:12 - 15: 7 60: 58
final TunisiaTunisia Tunisia versus NigeriaNigeriaNigeria  3: 2 15: 8 - 8:15 - 14:16 - 15:13 - 15: 9 63: 61

The team from Egypt had won all three games against Tunisia, Ivory Coast and Guinea in the group stage, but were then placed eighth in the tournament (for a reason not mentioned in the source).

Finals (women)

game encounter Result sentences Points
Semi-final 1 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria versus TunisiaTunisiaTunisia  3: 1 ? ?
Semi-final 2 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria versus GhanaGhanaGhana  3: 2 ? ?
3rd place match GhanaGhana Ghana versus TunisiaTunisiaTunisia  3: 2 ? ?
final AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria versus NigeriaNigeriaNigeria  3-0 ? ?

The team from Egypt took second place (out of three teams) in the group stage, but was then placed in last place in the tournament (for a reason not mentioned in the source).

Medal table

Medal table
rank country gold silver bronze Total
1 TunisiaTunisia Tunisia 29 15th 22nd 66
2 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 22nd 15th 13 50
3 AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 20th 18th 21st 59
4th KenyaKenya Kenya 11 12 9 32
5 MoroccoMorocco Morocco 7th 9 9 25th
6th Egypt 1972Egypt Egypt 6th 21st 13 40
7th GhanaGhana Ghana 6th 6th 8th 20th
8th SenegalSenegal Senegal 4th 5 4th 13
9 Political system of the Libyan Arab JamahiriyaPolitical system of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libya 4th 3 5 12
10 UgandaUganda Uganda 3 7th 5 15th
11 Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast 2 4th 4th 10
12 Zambia 1964Zambia Zambia 2 0 2 4th
13 SudanSudan Sudan 2 0 0 2
14th TogoTogo Togo 1 1 7th 9
15th TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania 1 1 2 4th
16 MaliMali Mali 1 1 0 2
17th ChadChad Chad 1 0 0 1
SwazilandSwaziland Swaziland 1 0 0 1
19th CameroonCameroon Cameroon 0 5 5 10
20th Ethiopia 1975Ethiopia Ethiopia 0 2 3 5
21st Upper VoltaUpper Volta Upper Volta 0 1 1 2
22nd GabonGabon Gabon 0 0 1 1
Congo People's Republic People's Republic of the Congo People's Republic of the Congo 0 0 1 1
123 126 134 (140) 384 (389)
  • The host country is highlighted in lavender blue.
  • Web links

    Individual evidence

    1. 3-page press report on the 1978 African Games , from: data.over-blog-kiwi.com. (French)
    2. Results of the women's tournament 1978 , from: todor66.com. (English)
    3. Gold, silver, bronze medalists 1978 , from: amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
    4. Results of the 1978 boxing competitions , from: todor66.com.
    5. Games, goals, results of the tournament , from: rsssf.com. (English)
    6. ^ Results of the 1978 football tournament , from: todor66.com.
    7. Information on the men's handball tournament at the 1978 Africa Games , from: todor66.com. (English)
    8. Information on the women's handball tournament at the 1978 Africa Games , from: todor66.com. (English)
    9. ^ Medal winner in the judo competitions of the Africa Games 1978 , from: todor66.com.
    10. Results / medal winners of the African Games athletics competitions 1965 to 2003 with the times / distances achieved , from: gbrathletics.com. (English)
    11. Results running disciplines men , from: gbrathletics.com.
    12. Results of the athletics competitions 1978 , from: todor66.com.
    13. Results men: jump, push, throwing disciplines and decathlon , from: gbrathletics.com.
    14. Results of the athletics competitions 1978 , from: todor66.com.
    15. Results of women's running disciplines , from: gbrathletics.com.
    16. Results of the athletics competitions 1978 , from: todor66.com.
    17. Results women: jumping, pushing, throwing disciplines and heptathlon , from: gbrathletics.com.
    18. Results of the athletics competitions 1978 , from: todor66.com.
    19. The pentathlon was only carried out at the Africa Games in 1978.
    20. Results of the 1978 cycling competitions , from: todor66.com.
    21. Results of the wrestling competitions - Freestyle and Greco-Roman 1978 , from: todor66.com.
    22. The competition took place with only two competitors.
    23. Results of the swimming competitions 1978 , from: todor66.com.
    24. Results of the swimming competitions 1978 , from: todor66.com.
    25. Results of the tennis tournament 1978 , from: todor66.com.
    26. Table tennis results ( Memento from October 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
    27. Game results of the men's tournament 1978 , from: todor66.com. (English)
    28. Medals in Men's Volleyball - African Games 1965-2015 , from: todor66.com. (English)
    29. Game results of the women's tournament 1978 , from: todor66.com. (English)