African championship handball 1979

The 3rd African Women's Handball Championship 1979 (officially Challenge Marien Ngouabi ) was held from July 20 to 31, 1979 in Brazzaville and served as qualification for the 1980 Summer Olympics . The tournament, which took place at the same time as the men's competition , was hosted by the Confédération Africaine de Handball (CAHB). The host of the People's Republic of the Congo won the competition with a total of nine participating nations for the "Coupe Marien Ngouabi " ahead of the teams from Cameroon and Algeria .

Tournament course

Group stage

Only the results of the Algerian team are known:

	Result
Algeria Algeria	15: 9	Nigeria Nigeria
Algeria Algeria	25: 7	Benin People's Republic Benin

Final round

The team of the People's Republic of the Congo qualified for the 1980 Olympic handball tournament. The picture shows part of the team (left) before the opening game there against the Soviet Union on July 21, 1980.

The final of the African Championship on July 31, 1979 decided the People's Republic of the Congo against Cameroon with 21:17 (13:10) or 22:20 for themselves.

Semifinals		final


Congo People's Republic People's Republic of the Congo
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast


		Congo People's Republic People's Republic of the Congo	21/22
		Cameroon Cameroon	17/20

		3rd place match

Cameroon Cameroon	26th	Ivory Coast Ivory Coast	12
Algeria Algeria	18th	Algeria Algeria	19th

Final score

Pl.	team
1.	Congo People's Republic People's Republic of the Congo
2.	Cameroon Cameroon
3.	Algeria Algeria
4th	Ivory Coast Ivory Coast
5.	Uganda Uganda
6th	Nigeria Nigeria
7th	Togo Togo
8th.	Benin People's Republic Benin
9.	Gabon Gabon

Squad

gold	People's Republic of the Congo
	Players : Anthermine Azanga , Okemba Micheline , Yvonne Makouala , Gisèle Gassy , Pascaline Bobeka , Nicole Oba , Alphonsine Bilampassi , Thérèse Kossa , as long Koulinka , Germaine Djimbi , Isabelle Azanga , Elisabeth Pemba Lopez , Angélique Abemane , Madeleine Mitsotso , Henriette Mfoulou , Clarisse Nsiété
silver	Cameroon
	Squad unknown
bronze	Algeria
	Players : Boualem, Daoudi, Maghmoul, Zehour Guidouche , Guerfa, Sahed, Amalou, Habili, Zidani, Bougara, Oulhadj, Zerhouni, Moualdi, Guerdache, Kessouar Trainer : Daoud, Drikci, Gancho

Web links

Todor Krastev: Women Handball III Africa Championship 1979 Brazzaville, Congo - 20-31.07 Congo. In: todor66.com , accessed June 7, 2020.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Brazzaville, capitale de l'olympisme africain. In: adiac-congo.com (July 17, 2015).
^ ^A ^b Hamid Grine: L'almanach du sport algérien: Les finales de la coupe d'Algérie de handball hommes de 1967 jusqu'à 1976. Editions ANEP, Algier 1990, p. 358.

[Adiac-1] Brazzaville, capitale de l'olympisme africain. In: adiac-congo.com (July 17, 2015).

[Grine-2] A ^b Hamid Grine: L'almanach du sport algérien: Les finales de la coupe d'Algérie de handball hommes de 1967 jusqu'à 1976. Editions ANEP, Algier 1990, p. 358.