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North Africa domination
In the absence of the South African swimmers, the redistribution of medals has allowed 13 countries out of the 31 participating to be on the podiums. The countries from North Africa dominated by winning 30 titles out of the 33. Egypt won 28 medals includ-ing 13 gold, ahead of Tunisia who won 24 medals of which 7 gold.
Algeria finished 3rd ahead of Moroc-co having won more bronze medals. 24 champion-ships records (16 Men and 8 Women) have been broken by swimmers from 8 different countries (EGY 7,TUN 5, ALG 4, MAR 3, KEN 2 ,GHA 1,BOT 1 NAM1).
Aziz Ghaffari (TUN) and Moncef Balamane (ALG) with 3 gold medals and 1 bronze in the individual events won the biggest number of medals.
Botswana won its first continental title on the 800m freestyle with James Freeman. Two countries were on the po-diums for the first time in an African Youth Games: Ghana and Liberia thanks to Abeku Jackson and Sal-ly Altruz respectively.
Medal table Africa Youth Games.
|
Ran k |
Countries |
Gol d |
Silver |
Bron ze |
Total |
CR |
|
1 |
Egypt |
13 |
6 |
9 |
28 |
7 |
|
2 |
Tunisia |
7 |
12 |
5 |
24 |
5 |
|
3 |
Algeria |
5 |
4 |
5 |
14 |
4 |
|
4 |
Morocco |
5 |
4 |
2 |
11 |
3 |
|
5 |
Kenya |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
|
6 |
Botswana |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
|
7 |
Ghana |
0 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
|
8 |
Namibia |
0 |
1 |
5 |
6 |
1 |
|
9 |
Liberia |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
/ |
|
9 |
Mauritius |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
/ |
|
9 |
Zambia |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
/ |
|
12 |
Angola |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
/ |
|
13 |
Uganda |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
/ |
|
|
Total |
33 |
34 |
33 |
100 |
24 |
Africa Youth Games The most medalist swimmers.
|
Swimmer |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
CR |
|
Aziz Ghaffari ,TUN |
3 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
|
Moncef Balamane, ALG |
3 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
|
Sandy Said, EGY |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
|
Hiba Fahsi, MOR |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
|
Logaine Abdellatif EGY |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
|
Maria Chantal Brunlehner, KEN |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
|
Abdelarahmane Samah, EGY |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
|
Abdallah Ardjoune,ALG |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
|
Habiba Belguith ,TUN |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
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