2015 African Games

XI African Games

Host city	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Nations participating	54 (projected)
Athletes participating	15,000 (projected athletes, coaches, officials)[1]
Events	172 from 22 sports
Opening ceremony	4 September 2015
Closing ceremony	19 September 2015
Officially opened by	Denis Sassou Nguesso President of the Republic of the Congo
Torch lighter	Christoffer Mafoumbi
Main venue	Kintele Stadium
Website	Cojabrazzaville2015.com
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The 11th African Games took place from September 4–19, 2015 in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.^[2] This edition marked the 50th anniversary of the Games, as well as their return to Brazzaville, which hosted the first edition in 1965.

Host awarding

Ghana,^[3] Kenya^[4] and Congo all showed interest in bidding for the 11th edition of the Games. On September 14, 2011, the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa awarded the rights to Brazzaville to host.^[5]

Name change

In January 2012 during the Executive Council meeting of the African Union held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was taken a decision for the name change from All-Africa Games to African Games. The 11th edition of Brazzaville 2015 started under this new name.^[6]

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held on 4 September 2015 at the newly-built Kintele Stadium. Congolese national anthem started the ceremony, performed by Abel Mona.^[7] Parade of nations then started with Mozambique entering first as the previous host in 2011 and Republic of Congo came out last as the current host. In the artistic sequence, performers dressed with the colors of Congolese flag formed the word bienvenue (welcome) and followed by various dances and the lighting of the torch.

Participating nations

Brazzaville

Location of Brazzaville in Republic of the Congo.

All countries participating in the 2015 All-Africa Games in green. Host country ( Republic of the Congo) in red.

Western Sahara (Sahrawi Republic) were to take part in the games for the first time, however, because the country is not yet affiliated with the international federations of the sports that it intended to attend, the Congolese organising committee determined its athletes could not participate.^[8][9]

Sports

22 separate sports have been announced for the 2015 African Games, and two additional disability sports (Athletics and Weightlifting):^[16]

Calendar

The schedule of the games was as follows. The calendar is to be completed with event finals information.^[17]

September		2nd Wed	3rd Thu	4th Fri	5th Sat	6th Sun	7th Mon	8th Tue	9th Wed	10th Thu	11th Fri	12th Sat	13th Sun	14th Mon	15th Tue	16th Wed	17th Thu	18th Fri	19th Sat	Events
Ceremonies				OC															CC
Athletics													4	12	9	8	13			46
Badminton		●	●	●	2	●	●	●	2											4
Basketball									●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2		2
Beach volleyball					●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2			2
Boxing						●	●	●	●	●	●	13								13
Cycling										2	2	1	1							6
Football						●	●		●	●		●	●		●		●	2		2
Fencing		2	2	2	3	3														12
Gymnastics		2	2	4	4	4														16
Handball |									●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2	2
Judo													5	5	4					14
Karate					5	●	4													9
Pétanque					●	●	●	●	●
Swimming						7	8	8	6	6	7									42
Table tennis										●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Taekwondo |															●	8	8		16
Tennis											●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Volleyball		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	2						2
Weightlifting							●	●	●		●	●
Wrestling															●	●	●	●		14
Total events		4	4	6	14	14	12	8	8	8	9	14	10	19	13	8	23	8	2
Cumulative total		4	8	14	28	42	54	62	70	78	87	101	111	130	143	151	174	182	184
September		2nd Wed	3rd Thu	4th Fri	5th Sat	6th Sun	7th Mon	8th Tue	9th Wed	10th Thu	11th Fri	12th Sat	13th Sun	14th Mon	15th Tue	16th Wed	17th Thu	18th Fri	19th Sat	Events

Venues

Brazzaville		Brazzaville
Kintélé Sports Complex
Brazzavile	Brazzaville
Kintele Aquatic Complex Capacity: 2,000	Palais des Sports Capacity: 10,134

Venues used in these Games mostly located in the new Kintele Sport Complex in the northern part of Brazzaville^[18] and the existing Alphonse Massemba-Débat Sport Complex. The list below shows venues used in these Games.^{[19][20][21][22]}

Medal table

Key

  *   Host nation (Congo)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt (EGY)	85	64	68	217
2	Nigeria (NGR)	47	55	42	144
3	South Africa (RSA)	41	41	40	122
4	Algeria (ALG)	40	43	42	125
5	Tunisia (TUN)	30	26	38	94
6	Senegal (SEN)	7	10	20	37
7	Kenya (KEN)	6	9	17	32
8	Mauritius (MRI)	5	3	4	12
9	Congo (CGO)*	5	2	12	19
10	Cameroon (CMR)	4	2	10	16
11	Angola (ANG)	4	1	3	8
12	Seychelles (SEY)	3	4	5	12
13	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	3	0	1	4
14	Libya (LBA)	2	4	8	14
15	Botswana (BOT)	2	3	9	14
16	Ghana (GHA)	2	2	4	8
17	Ivory Coast (CIV)	2	2	3	7
18	Eritrea (ERI)	2	1	0	3
19	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	0	6	8
20	Burkina Faso (BUR)	1	0	2	3
21	Rwanda (RWA)	1	0	1	2
22	Gabon (GAB)	0	2	3	5
	Namibia (NAM)	0	2	3	5
24	Democratic Republic of the Congo (COD)	0	2	1	3
25	Togo (TOG)	0	2	0	2
26	Benin (BEN)	0	1	1	2
27	Djibouti (DJI)	0	1	0	1
	The Gambia (GAM)	0	1	0	1
29	Madagascar (MAD)	0	0	6	6
30	Mali (MLI)	0	0	3	3
31	Mozambique (MOZ)	0	0	2	2
	Uganda (UGA)	0	0	2	2
33	Guinea (GUI)	0	0	1	1
	Guinea-Bissau (GBS)	0	0	1	1
	Lesotho (LES)	0	0	1	1
	Niger (NIG)	0	0	1	1
	Zambia (ZAM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (37 nations)		294	283	361	938

Source: ^[23][24]

Broadcasters

Territory	Broadcaster
Botswana	Botswana TV
Republic of the Congo	TeleCongo
Democratic Republic of the Congo	RTNC
Egypt	ERTU
Sub-Saharan Africa	Canal+ Afrique
	SuperSport
	Africa 24
Middle East and North Africa	beIN Sports
Senegal	RTS
South Africa	SuperSport
	SABC
Other countries	BrazzaTV (Website)

Source: ^[25]

References

External links

• Official website