The Egyptian team emerged champions of the 13 African Games in Ghana with 101 Gold, 46 Silver and 42 Bronze medals.
The Nigerian team finished second with 47 Gold, 33 Silver and 40 Bronze medals while the South African team came third with 32 Gold, 32 Silver and 42 Bronze medals. The fourth position went to the Algerian team which had a total of 114 medals with 29 Gold, 38 Silver and 47 Bronze, while Tunisia finished fifth with 87 medals – 21 Gold, 27 Silver and 39 Bronze.
The host country, Ghana finished 6th with 68 medals comprising 19 Gold, 29 Silver and 20 Bronze medals, which is an improvement from the 15th position it finished in the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco.
However Morocco, Ethiopia, Mauritius and Kenya occupied the 7th to the 10th positions on the table.
Declaring close the 13th African Games in Accra on Saturday, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo expressed delight at the glaring performance of the athletes, which according to him, was the largest medal haul achieved by Ghana in the history of the African Games.
President Akufo-Addo praised the Ghanaian team, the 52 participating countries, members of the organizing committee, officials at the tournament and the hundreds of volunteers for showing Africa and the world “the best of Ghana”.
He expressed the hope that the successes recorded at the 16-day Games should serve as catalyst to invest further in Sports development and empowering the Ghanaian youth to attain greater heights.
The highlights of the closing ceremony included the parade of all the participating countries’ flags, the match pass of the all the contingents, the Volunteers and the recognition and presentation of gifts to the retired and first female Secretary General of FIFA, Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura from Senegal.
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African Games: Egypt, Nigeria top medal table as championship ends
