2019 African Beach Games

The 2019 African Beach Games were the inaugural edition of the international beach sports competition between the nations of Africa, organised by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA). The first Games were held on the island of Sal, Cape Verde in June 2019.

I African Beach Games

Host city	Sal, Cape Verde
Nations	45
Events	28 events in 11 sports
Opening	14 June 2019
Closing	23 June 2019
Website	sal2019.com[usurped]
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In the ten-day competition, a total of 45 nations competed in 28 events across 11 sports. Teqball was also included as a demonstration sport on 18 June.

The Games were awarded to the Cabo Verdean Olympic Committee (COC) at the ANOCA General Assembly in Djibouti in May 2017.^[1] The host contract was signed in March 2018 between the City Hall of Sal, the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) and the Cabo Verdean Olympic Committee (COC), to carry out of the first African Beach Games 2019.^[2]

Branding

The logo is the silhouette of the African continent, while the mascot is a tortoise named Krexteu.^[3][4]

Venues

• Santa Maria Beach Park - 3×3 Basketball, Beach handball, Coastal rowing, Beach soccer, Football freestyle, Karate, Kiteboarding, Open water swimming, Teqball (demonstration)^[5]
• Athletics Circuit - Athletics
• Arena 2 - Beach tennis, Beach volleyball

Participating nations

45 out of 54 nations participated. Chad, Comoros, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Somalia and South Africa did not participate.^[6]

•  Algeria (71)
•  Angola (7)
•  Benin (2)
•  Botswana (10)
•  Burkina Faso (3)
•  Burundi (5)
•  Cameroon (3)
•  Cape Verde (78)
•  Central African Republic (3)
•  Republic of the Congo (4)
•  Ivory Coast (8)
•  Djibouti (22)
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo (4)
•  Egypt (2)
•  Equatorial Guinea (10)
•  The Gambia (6)
•  Ghana (10)
•  Guinea (6)
•  Guinea-Bissau (3)
•  Kenya (40)
•  Lesotho (2)
•  Liberia (1)
•  Libya (6)
•  Madagascar (2)
•  Malawi (2)
•  Mali (9)
•  Mauritania (5)
•  Mauritius (11)
•  Morocco (39)
•  Mozambique (5)
•  Namibia (10)
•  Niger (4)
•  Nigeria (34)
•  Rwanda (1)
•  Senegal (14)
•  Seychelles (7)
•  Sierra Leone (25)
•  South Sudan (6)
•  Sudan (2)
•  Tanzania (2)
•  Togo (26)
•  Tunisia (35)
•  Uganda (2)
•  Zambia (1)
•  Zimbabwe (2)

Calendar

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event competitions

1

Gold medal events

CC

Closing ceremony

June		14th Fri	15th Sat	16th Sun	17th Mon	18th Tue	19th Wed	20th Thu	21st Fri	22nd Sat	23rd Sun	Events
Ceremonies		OC									CC
3x3 basketball								●	●	2	2	4
Athletics				2								2
Beach handball		●	●	2								2
Beach soccer							●	●	1	●	1	2
Beach tennis		●	1	2								3
Beach volleyball							●	●	●	●	2	2
Coastal rowing		●	3									3
Football freestyle				2								2
Karate		2	2									4
Kiteboarding							●	●	2			4
Open water swimming				2								2
Daily medal events		2	6	10	0	0	0	0	3	2	5	28
Cumulative total		2	8	18	18	18	18	18	21	23	28	28
June		14th Fri	15th Sat	16th Sun	17th Mon	18th Tue	19th Wed	20th Thu	21st Fri	22nd Sat	23rd Sun	Events

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Cape Verde)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco (MAR)	9	3	4	16
2	Algeria (ALG)	5	6	5	16
3	Tunisia (TUN)	3	3	1	7
4	Cape Verde (CPV)*	3	2	5	10
5	Mauritius (MRI)	2	2	0	4
6	Mali (MLI)	2	1	1	4
7	Nigeria (NGR)	1	2	4	7
8	Uganda (UGA)	1	0	1	2
9	Mozambique (MOZ)	1	0	0	1
	Senegal (SEN)	1	0	0	1
11	Namibia (NAM)	0	4	0	4
12	Togo (TOG)	0	2	0	2
13	Botswana (BOT)	0	1	3	4
14	Kenya (KEN)	0	1	2	3
15	Ghana (GHA)	0	1	0	1
16	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	0	3	3
17	Burundi (BDI)	0	0	1	1
	Djibouti (DJI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		28	28	31	87

Results

3×3 Basketball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Mali (MLI) Mamadou Keïta Gaoussou Koné Badara Bagayoko Benke Diarouma	Algeria (ALG) Touhami Ghezzoul Mounir Bernaoui Nadyr Labouize Kamel Ammour	Ivory Coast (CIV) Aboubakar Traoré Ibrahim Sevede Adjo Bokobri Cheick Traoré
Men's dunk contest	Anderson Correia  Cape Verde	Benke Diarouma  Mali	Aboubakar Traoré  Ivory Coast
Women's team	Mali (MLI) Assetou Diakité Aïssata Maïga Alima Dembélé Assetou Sissoko	Togo (TOG) Adjovi Tossou Afanwoubo Rachel Ndukue Samiya Pindra Aku Afetse	Nigeria (NGR) Azibaye Mac-Dangosu Murjanatu Musa Nkem Akaraiwe Josette Anaswem
Women's shootout	Josette Awasnem  Nigeria	Victoria Netumbo  Namibia	Assetou Sissoko  Mali

Athletics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's half marathon	Robert Chemonges  Uganda	Charles Yosei Muneria  Kenya	Abdillahi Bouh Moumin  Djibouti
Women's half marathon	Riham Senani  Algeria	Lavinia Haitope  Namibia	Priscilla Chelangat  Uganda

Beach handball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Tunisia (TUN) Marwane Soussi Mohamed Maaouia Aimen Touzi Mohamed Ben Mida Omar Saied Marwen Chetioui Ahmed Sfar Nizar Ben Rajab Achraf Elabed	Togo (TOG) Abdoula Modi Komi Djokpe Ayavi Ayivi Mawuko Ayenou Yaou Adjinda Aduayi Aduayu-Akue Aboudou Gado Kossi Tchassanti Ayao Boboloe	Morocco (MAR) Achraf Fliss Ayoub Barkhane Redwane Braout Hicham El Harti Hicham El Hakimy Mehdi Ismaili Alaoui Mohamed El Guens Zouhair Ouasfi Mohamed Rachid Hamed
Women's team	Tunisia (TUN) Safa Ameri Ameni Jemmali Leila Ouerfelli Samira Arfaoui Siwar Ammar Amani Salmi Manel Mrad Hanen Romdhane Boutheina Amiche	Cape Verde (CPV) Odete Tavares Suzana Barros Jorgeana Carvalho Iliana Semedo Eneida Lopes Telma Fernandes Rute Fernandes Marta Coelho Maria Correia	Algeria (ALG) Sihem Hemissi Lina Slimani Fatiha Haimer Tina Salhi Sylia Zouaoui Feriel Belouchrani Yamina Bensalem Sarah Ait Habib Kenza Makhloufi

Beach soccer

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Senegal (SEN) Djibril Gueye Lansana Diassy Amadou Ba Mamadou Sylla Mansour Diagne Al Seyni Ndiaye Ninou Diatta El Hadji Mbaye Babacar Fall Papa Ndoye	Morocco (MAR) Rabi Aboutalbi Zakariae Ahriga Sami Iazal Nassim El Hadaoui Azzedine El Hamidy Miloud Ennakhli Anas El Hadaoui Yassir Abada Ismail El Ouariry Ali Elkhdym	Nigeria (NGR) Benjamin Iluyomade Godwin Iorbee Emmanuel Ohwoferia Azeez Abu Hego Ogbonna Paul Danjuma Austin Igudia Godwin Tale Adams Taiwo
Women's team	Cape Verde (CPV) Jacinta Rodrigues Melany Fortes Joceline Martins Rosângela Lima Ruth Duarte Keila Delgado Simónica Duarte Carolyne Tomar Vânia Lobo Vanda Graça	Algeria (ALG) Amina Haleyi Rayane Doumi Samar Benhamouda Kamilia Boutiara Rania Boudellal Romaissa Boudiaf Meriem Haleyi Wafa Bencheikh Khadidja Nefissa Sarah Derbal	Not awarded

Beach tennis

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's doubles	Morocco (MAR) Youssef Ghazouani Anass Bouaouda	Mauritius (MRI) Fabrice Nayna Etienne Fleurie	Kenya (KEN) Fazal Khan Ibrahim Yego
Women's doubles	Morocco (MAR) Camilla Benabdeljalil Sarah Benabdeljalil	Nigeria (NGR) Blessing Audu Christie Agugbom	Cape Verde (CPV) Silvia Nascimento Jocilene Fernandes
Mixed doubles	Morocco (MAR) Anass Bouaouda Camilla Benabdeljalil	Morocco (MAR) Youssef Ghazouani Sarah Benabdeljalil	Cape Verde (CPV) Anderson Neves Jocilene Fernandes

Beach volleyball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Mozambique (MOZ) Delcio Soares Aldevino Nguvo	Ghana (GHA) Samuel Essilfie Kelvin Carboo	Morocco (MAR) Mohammed Abicha Zouheir El Graoui
Women's team	Morocco (MAR) Nora Nezha Jihane Darrhar Imane Zeroual	Namibia (NAM) Julia Laggner Kim Seebach	Kenya (KEN) Naomie Too Gaudencia Makokha

Coastal rowing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Oussama Habiche  Algeria	Mohamed Mansouri  Tunisia	Michael Moses  Nigeria
Women's singles	Sarra Zammali  Tunisia	Amina Rouba  Algeria	Esther Toko  Nigeria
Mixed team	Algeria (ALG) Oussama Habiche Amina Rouba	Nigeria (NGR) Michael Moses Esther Toko	Tunisia (TUN) Mohamed Mansouri Sarra Zammali

Football freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual battles	Othmane Djedidi  Morocco	Nicholas Barros  Cape Verde	Noureddine Saïdi  Algeria
Men's individual routines	Nicholas Barros  Cape Verde	Noureddine Saïdi  Algeria	Othmane Djedidi  Morocco

Karate

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual kata	Mohammed El-Hanni  Morocco	Mouad Ouites  Algeria	Ofentse Bakwadi  Botswana
			Songuida Sanogo  Ivory Coast
Men's team kata	Algeria (ALG) Samir Lakrout Mouad Ouites Haoua Abdelhakim	Botswana (BOT) Thebe Duna Tlotlang Ponatshego Ofentse Bakwadi	Cape Verde (CPV) Mauro Soares José Mendes Gonçalves Leonardo Ramos
			Burundi (BDI) Nkeshimana Elvis Ntiruseseka Herve Mukeshimana Brillant
Women's individual kata	Sanae Agalmam  Morocco	Suzelle Pronk  Namibia	Entle Maungwa  Botswana
			Manal Kamilia Hadj Saïd  Algeria
Women's team kata	Morocco (MAR) Sanae Agalmam Aya En-Nesyry Lamiae Bertali	Algeria (ALG) Manal Kamilia Hadj Saïd Sara Hanouti Rayane Salakedji	Botswana (BOT) Centy Kgosikoma Lame Hetanang Entle Maungwa
			Cape Verde (CPV) Sophia Évora Danisa Conceição Silviane Mendes

Kitesurfing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's boardercross	Jean Lauri Fenouillot  Mauritius	Luis Drany Clair  Mauritius	Ahmed Boudjatit  Algeria
Men's foilracing	Jean Lauri Fenouillot  Mauritius	Hicham Tirya  Morocco	Luis Duarte  Cape Verde

Open water swimming

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 5 km	Mathy Mathieu Ben Rahou  Morocco	Haithem Mbarki  Tunisia	Ali Merouane Betka  Algeria
Women's 5 km	Sara Moualfi  Algeria	Alya Gara  Tunisia	Ayat Allah Elanouar  Morocco

Demonstration result

Teqball

^[7]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Cameroon Hubert Noah Essomba Gregory Tchami-Djomaha	Nigeria Thankgod Adindu Emmanuel Nwabueze	Cape Verde Ekson da Graça Rodirley Duarte