IX All-Africa Games

Host city	Algiers, Algeria
Nations	52
Events	24 sports
Opening	11 July 2007
Closing	23 July 2007
Opened by	Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Main venue	Stade 5 Juillet 1962
Website	coja2007.dz
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Algiers

Location of Algiers in Algeria.

The 9th All-Africa Games took place between 11 and 23 July 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there. Besides Algeria, only Nigeria has hosted the event twice, but with different host cities. 4793 athletes took part to these games.^[1]

Venues

^[2]

• Main stadium - Athletics
• Stade SATO - Para athletics
• Piscine du Complexe Olympique - Swimming
• Hall OMS El Biar - Badminton
• Salle OMS Hydra - Women's Basketball
• Salle Staouali - Men's Basketball
• Salle Harcha - Men's Basketball
• Centre Equestre LIDO - Equestrian
• Centre Equestre de Maramene - Equestrian (Endurance)
• Stand de tir Chenoua - Shooting
• Salle OMS de Bordj-El-Kiffan - Boxing
• Coupole - Judo, Karate, Handball
• Salle OMS de Bousmail - Weightlifting
• Club Tennis OCO - Tennis
• Salle OMS Boumerdes - Kickboxing, Taekwondo
• Barrage de Boukerdane - Rowing
• Salle OMS de Rouiba - Table tennis
• Salle De Bab Ezzouar - Gymnastics
• La Cité des sciences, Théâtre des verdures - Chess
• Salles OMS Ain Benian - Handball
• Salles OMS Ain Taya - Handball
• Salles OMS Tipaza - Handball
• Salle de Boufarik - Wheelchair basketball
• Circuit route Tipaza - Cycling
• Salle de Zeralda - Goalball
• E.N.V Alger plage - Sailing

Competitions

The following 24 sports were competed:

Paralympic sports: Athletics, Basketball and Goalball

Three disciplines, Baseball, Softball and Field Hockey were dropped by the hosts, since these sports are hardly played in Algeria and consequently lack suitable facilities.^[3] The hockey competition would have doubled as qualifier for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, thus African Hockey Federation organised a separate olympic qualifying tournament in Nairobi, Kenya, held simultaneously with the All-Africa Games.^[4]

Water Polo was not competed due to lack of teams.^[5] It was supposed to be an Olympic qualifier.

Medals

  *   Host nation (Algeria)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt (EGY)	74	62	63	199
2	Algeria (ALG)*	70	58	77	205
3	South Africa (SAF)	61	66	53	180
4	Ethiopia	54	5	10	69
5	Nigeria (NGR)	50	55	54	159
6	Tunisia (TUN)	48	41	58	147
7	Kenya (KEN)	13	15	10	38
8	Senegal (SEN)	8	12	26	46
9	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	7	8	8	23
10	Botswana (BOT)	6	2	5	13
11	Cameroon (CMR)	4	6	17	27
12	Libya	4	5	10	19
13	Angola (ANG)	4	1	7	12
14	Ghana (GHA)	3	10	12	25
15	Seychelles (SEY)	3	6	1	10
16	Eritrea (ERI)	3	1	2	6
17	Sudan (SUD)	3	0	1	4
18	Democratic Republic of the Congo (COD)	2	2	1	5
19	Gabon (GAB)	2	1	3	6
20	Zambia (ZAM)	1	2	6	9
21	Lesotho (LES)	1	1	2	4
22	Mali (MLI)	1	0	3	4
23	Uganda (UGA)	1	0	1	2
24	Mozambique (MOZ)	1	0	0	1
25	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	3	12	15
26	Burkina Faso (BUR)	0	2	1	3
27	Madagascar (MAD)	0	1	3	4
	Republic of the Congo (CGO)	0	1	3	4
29	Guinea (GUI)	0	1	2	3
	Malawi (MAW)	0	1	2	3
31	Namibia (NAM)	0	1	1	2
32	São Tomé and Príncipe (STP)	0	1	0	1
	Tanzania (TAN)	0	1	0	1
	Togo (TOG)	0	1	0	1
35	Benin (BEN)	0	0	4	4
36	Guinea-Bissau (GBS)	0	0	3	3
37	Central African Republic (CAF)	0	0	1	1
Totals (37 entries)		424	372	462	1258