2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

The 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie (French for 8th Francophone Games), informally known as Abidjan 2017, took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from July 21–30. This was the first edition of the games to be hosted in Ivory Coast.^[1]

VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie

Host city	Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Nations	49
Athletes	4,000
Opening	July 21, 2017
Closing	July 30, 2017
Opened by	Alassane Ouattara
Main venue	Stade Félix Houphouet-Boigny
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Since 2011, it was the third international competition held in Abidjan, after the 2013 World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships and the 2013 AfroBasket.

Venues

Ten cultural and sports venues will be situated in three geographic zones in Abidjan :

• Zone A : Marcory and Treichville suburbs
• Zone B : Plateau suburb
• Zone C : Cocody suburb

Zone A (Marcory and Treichville)

• Stade Robert Champroux - Sporting competitions, Renovated in 2007
• Parc du Canal aux bois - Cultural events
• Palais des Sports de Treichville - Sporting competitions, Renovated in 2013
• Palace of Culture of Abidjan - Cultural events, Renovated in 2012
• Café-Théâtre, Centre national des arts et de la culture - Cultural events

Zone B (Le Plateau)

• Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny - Sporting competitions, To be renovated
• Ivory Coast Museum of Civilisations - Cultural events
• National Library of Ivory Coast - Cultural events
• French Cultural Centre - Cultural events

Zone C (Cocody)

• Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (campus) - Games village; Sporting competitions, Renovated in 2012

Participants

Of the 48 delegations participating, Kosovo and Ukraine were participating for the first time, while Laos returned to the Games for the first time since 2009. Countries that participated in 2013 that did not return in 2017 were Andorra, Austria, Cyprus, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Guinea-Bissau, Montenegro, Poland, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, and Slovakia.

• Armenia
• Benin
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canada
  • New Brunswick
  • Quebec
• Cape Verde
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Congo
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• France
• French Community of Belgium
• Gabon
• Guinea
• Haiti
• Ivory Coast
• Kosovo
• Laos
• Lebanon
• Luxembourg
• Macedonia
• Madagascar
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Monaco
• Morocco
• Mozambique
• Niger
• Qatar
• Romania
• Senegal
• Seychelles
•  Switzerland
• Togo
• Tunisia
• Ukraine
• Uruguay
• Vanuatu
• Vietnam

Events

Sports African wrestling (details) (12) Athletics (details) (42) Athletics (handicapped) (details) (5) Basketball (details) (1) Cycling (details) (2) Football (soccer) (details) (1) Judo (details) (14) Table tennis (details) (4) Wrestling (details) (16)

Cultural Digital creation Ecological creation Hip-hop dance Juggling Poetry Painting Photography Puppetry Sculpture Song Storytelling Traditional inspiration dance

Medal table

Final medal tally below.

  *   Host nation (Ivory Coast)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	22	16	11	49
2	Morocco	13	14	15	42
3	Canada	13	8	15	36
4	Senegal	10	9	8	27
5	Romania	8	9	14	31
6	Ivory Coast*	6	8	5	19
7	Cameroon	5	7	9	21
8	Quebec	5	7	6	18
9	Congo	5	0	0	5
10	Burkina Faso	3	4	2	9
11	Switzerland	3	2	9	14
12	Seychelles	2	0	1	3
13	Kosovo	2	0	0	2
14	Armenia	1	4	3	8
15	Mali	1	2	5	8
16	Niger	1	2	3	6
17	New Brunswick	1	2	2	5
18	Benin	1	1	3	5
	Mauritius	1	1	3	5
20	Cape Verde	1	1	0	2
21	Tunisia	1	0	6	7
22	DR Congo	1	0	2	3
	Lebanon	1	0	2	3
24	Egypt	1	0	0	1
25	French Community of Belgium	0	2	2	4
26	Chad	0	2	1	3
27	Gabon	0	2	0	2
	Guinea	0	2	0	2
29	Luxembourg	0	1	3	4
30	Madagascar	0	1	2	3
31	Central African Republic	0	0	2	2
32	Cambodia	0	0	1	1
	Djibouti	0	0	1	1
	Togo	0	0	1	1
	Vietnam	0	0	1	1
Totals (35 entries)		108	107	138	353

Medalists

African wrestling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Senegal Mouhamet Bousso Omar Diouane Moussa Faye Cheikh Tidiane Niang Moustapha Sène	Burkina Faso Débé Blaise Emmanuel Romaric Kawané Moussa Konané Eloi Zerbo Drissa Zon	Niger Mahamadou Alimiyaou Garba Mourtala Tassiou Sani Tassiou Ibrahim Yahaya Kaka
Men's 66 kg	Moussa Faye  Senegal	Roland Tambi Nforsong  Cameroon	Mahamadou Alimiyaou  Niger
Men's 76 kg	Madalin Minzala  Romania	Garba Mourtala  Niger	Omar Diouane  Senegal
Men's 86 kg	Cheikh Tidiane Niang  Senegal	Drissa Zon  Burkina Faso	Tassiou Ibrahim  Niger
Men's 100 kg	Moustapha Sène  Senegal	Yahaya Kaka  Niger	Eloi Zerbo  Burkina Faso
Men's +100 kg	Mouhamet Bousso  Senegal	Emmanuel Romaric Kawané  Burkina Faso	Anas El Mkabber  Morocco
Women's team	Senegal Binette Diatta Safietou Goudiaby Marie Therese Manga Anta Sambou Nahamie Sambou	Ivory Coast Assetou Coulibaly Makourakou Diomande Tiemongo Soro Caroline Yapi N'De Amy Youin	Cameroon Joseph Essombe Berthe Etane Ngolle Danielle Sino Guemde
Women's 45 kg	Nahamie Sambou  Senegal	Josiane Danimbe Lubahitar  Chad	Caroline Yapi N'De  Ivory Coast
Women's 50 kg	Madalina Linguraru  Romania	Binette Diatta  Senegal	Tiemongo Soro  Ivory Coast
Women's 60 kg	Joseph Essombe  Cameroon	Safietou Goudiaby  Senegal	Josiane Nabi  Burkina Faso
Women's 70 kg	Amy Youin  Ivory Coast	Fatoumata Yarie Camara  Guinea	Marie Therese Manga  Senegal
Women's 80 kg	Anta Sambou  Senegal	Samsia Gassida Godah  Chad	Cătălina Axente  Romania

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

Cultural

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hip-hop dance	Sn9per Crew  Cameroon	04 LKARWA  Morocco	Pockemon Crew  France
Giant puppetry	Ivoire Marionnettes  Ivory Coast	Pi  Canada	Nama  Mali
Ball juggling	Stylers Crew  Morocco	S3  France	Kassio Ignace  Ivory Coast
Painting	Yazan Halwani  Lebanon	Mbaye Babacar Diouf  Senegal	Ahmed Youssef Ahmed  Egypt
Sculpture	Rémi Ama Sossouvi  Benin	Émilie Grace Lavoie New Brunswick	Serge Ecker  Luxembourg
Photography	Laurence-Azita Rasti  Switzerland	Anush Babajanyan  Armenia	Annie France Noël New Brunswick
Digital creation	Sabrina Ratté  Canada	Aboubacar Bablé Draba  Mali	Clément Hugues Quebec
Ecological creation	Jeux WASA  Canada	PARO-CI  Ivory Coast	David Ngaba  Chad
Song	Fanie Fayar  Congo	Awa Mounaya Yanni  Senegal	Céléna-Sophia Wallonia
Storytelling	Julles Moussoki Mitchum  Congo	Compagnie Arc-en-ciel  Guinea	Najoua Darwiche  France
Traditional inspiration dance	Les Frères Joseph  Mauritius	Soul City  France	N'Soleh  Ivory Coast
Literature	Razak René  Niger	Gabriel Robichaud New Brunswick	Mohamed Mbougar Sarr  Senegal

Cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's road race	Pierre Idjouadiene  France	Soufiane Sahbaoui  Morocco	Bruno Armirail  France
Women's road race	Pauline Allin  France	Soline Lamboley  France	Alexxa Albrecht Quebec

Football

Main article: Football at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

Judo

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight 60 kg	Jolan Florimont  France	Flavio Dimarca Wallonia	Lionel Schwander  Switzerland
			Mohammed Jafy  Morocco
Half-lightweight 66 kg	Franck Vernez  France	Gueorgui Poklitar Quebec	Dieudonné Nama Etoga  Cameroon
			Imad Bassou  Morocco
Lightweight 73 kg	Akil Gjakova  Kosovo	Ahmed El Meziati  Morocco	Alexandru Raicu  Romania
			Patrick Cantin Quebec
Half-middleweight 81 kg	Alpha Oumar Djalo  France	Achraf Moutii  Morocco	Saliou Ndiaye  Senegal
			Franck Bell Ngindjel  Cameroon
Middleweight 90 kg	Louis Krieber-Gagnon Quebec	Tobias Meier  Switzerland	Grigor Sahakyan  Armenia
			Zachary Burt  Canada
Half-heavyweight 100 kg	Rebouka Ariano  France	Marc Deschenes  Canada	Luca Kunszabo  Romania
			Ousmane Diallo  Mali
Heavyweight +100 kg	Messie Katanga  France	Mbagnick Ndiaye  Senegal	Jean-François Ouellet Quebec
			Adil Hajji  Morocco

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra-lightweight 48 kg	Olfa Saoudi  Tunisia	Virginia Aymard  France	Aziza Chakir  Morocco
			Diana Kwan Hu  Madagascar
Half-lightweight 52 kg	Distria Krasniqi  Kosovo	Christianne Legentil  Mauritius	Tamara Silva  Switzerland
			Ikram Soukate  Morocco
Lightweight 57 kg	Sarah Harachi  France	Zouleiha Abzetta Dabonne  Ivory Coast	Soumiya Iraoui  Morocco
			Sarah Sylva  Mauritius
Half-middleweight 63 kg	Emily Burt Quebec	Cloe Yvin  France	Sofia Belattar  Morocco
			Mariem Bjaoui  Tunisia
Middleweight 70 kg	Melissa Heleine  France	Alix Renaud-Roy Quebec	Fatim Fofana  Ivory Coast
			Ayuk Otay Arrey Sophina  Cameroon
Half-heavyweight 78 kg	Stessie Bastareaud  France	Mina Coulombe  Canada	Audrey Dilane Njepang  Cameroon
			Sarra Mzougui  Tunisia
Heavyweight +78 kg	Anne Fatoumata M'Bairo  France	Andrea Eyui Mbengone  Gabon	Kimberly Carole Imongo  DR Congo
			Aicha Isilo  Madagascar

Para-athletics

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 200 m	T44	Dimitri Pavadé  France	Michaël Mayali  France	Tristan Gaël Kangbazou  Central African Republic
Men's long jump	T44	Dimitri Pavadé  France	Michaël Mayali  France	Tristan Gaël Kangbazou  Central African Republic
Men's 200 m	T46–47	Akué N'Guessan Kouassi  Ivory Coast	Serge Arthur Nakou  Ivory Coast	Mahamane Sacko  Mali
Men's long jump	T46–47	Abdelkabir Jaddi  Morocco	Addoh Frédéric Kimou  Ivory Coast	Fayssal Atchiba  Benin
Men's javelin throw	F42–46	Aimé Atchoukeu Mbithe  Cameroon	Semedo Marilson  Cape Verde	Abdelhadi El Harti  Morocco

Table tennis

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Joé Seyfried  France	Alexandru Manole  Romania	Antoine Bernadet Quebec
			Gaël Vendé  Switzerland
Women's singles	Océane Guisnel  France	Alina Georgiana Zaharia  Romania	Abir Haj Salah  Tunisia
			Malak Khoury  Lebanon
Mixed doubles	Romania Alexandru Manole Alina Georgiana Zaharia	France Océane Guisnel Joé Seyfried	Switzerland Salomé Claire Simonet Gaël Vendé
			Vietnam Bùi Thế Nghĩa Phạm Thị Thu Hương
Mixed team	France Océane Guisnel Joé Seyfried	Romania Alexandru Manole Alina Georgiana Zaharia	Lebanon Mohamad Hamie Malak Khoury
			Switzerland Salomé Claire Simonet Gaël Vendé

Wrestling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's freestyle 57 kg	Steven Takahashi  Canada	Mkhitar Grigoryan  Armenia	Youssoup Deliev  France
			Marin Filip  Romania
Men's freestyle 61 kg	Adama Diatta  Senegal	Ioan-Raul Donu  Romania	Darthe Capellan  Canada
			Ashot Velitsyan  Armenia
Men's freestyle 65 kg	David Dobre  Romania	Vincent De Marinis Quebec	Vaghinak Matevosyan  Armenia
			Dillon Williams  Canada
Men's freestyle 70 kg	Khachatur Papikyan  Armenia	Roman Duscov  Romania	Jean Bernard Diatta  Senegal
			Caleb Rutner  Canada
Men's freestyle 74 kg	Ahmed Shamiya  Canada	Varuzhan Kajoyan  Armenia	Madalin Minzala  Romania
			Guseyn Ruslanzada Quebec
Men's freestyle 86 kg	Jordan Steen  Canada	Marzpet Galstyan  Armenia	Marcel Diboma  Cameroon
			Ion Pislaru  Romania
Men's freestyle 97 kg	Vlad Caras  Romania	Quentin Milliere  France	Cedric Nyamsi Tchouga  Cameroon
			Dalton Webb  Canada
Men's freestyle 125 kg	Sean Molle  Canada	Frédérick Choquette Quebec	Thiacka Faye  Senegal
			Nicolas Tavernese  France
Women's freestyle 48 kg	Jade Parsons  Canada	Tabatha Grunewald  France	Madalina Linguraru  Romania
Women's freestyle 53 kg	Kristina McLaren  Canada	Elisa Rasoanantenaina  Madagascar	Chan Raksmey Chey  Cambodia
			Samantha Stewart New Brunswick
Women's freestyle 55 kg	Laurence Beauregard Quebec	Madalina Simona Tudor  Romania	Faridatou Gbadamassi  Benin
			Elisa Savalle  France
Women's freestyle 58 kg	Joseph Essombe  Cameroon	Safietou Goudiaby  Senegal	Sonia Baudin  France
			Emily Schaefer  Canada
Women's freestyle 60 kg	Aurelie Basset  France	Denisa Iuliana Fodor  Romania	Gertrude Prombove  Cameroon
			Hannah Franson  Canada
Women's freestyle 63 kg	Jessica Brouillette  Canada	Linda Morais Quebec	Berthe Etane Ngolle  Cameroon
			Kriszta Incze  Romania
Women's freestyle 69 kg	Anta Sambou  Senegal	Kayla Brodner  Canada	Ania Mabunga Menga  DR Congo
			Pauline Lecarpentier  France
Women's freestyle 75 kg	Veronica Keefe Quebec	Danielle Sino Guemde  Cameroon	Cătălina Axente  Romania
			Gracelynn Doogan  Canada