Originally set for this month in Ghana, the 2023 African Games have officially been postponed to next year.
The African Union (AU), the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) and the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC) announced this week that the quadrennial event will now take place in March of 2024, remaining in the host city of Accra, Ghana.
As when the Tokyo Olympic Games retained its ‘2020 Olympic Games’ title despite being postponed, Ghana will follow suit with the ‘2023 Accra’ name being carried into 2024.
With the new timing, 12 out of the proposed 24 sporting disciplines of the Africa Games will see their competition serve as qualifiers for the 2024 Olympics Games in Paris following the approval by the President of the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC), General Ahmed Nasser and the President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Mustapha Berraf.
The disciplines are athletics, basketball 3×3, badminton, beach volleyball, cycling and judo, swimming, tennis, table tennis, triathlon, volleyball and wrestling.
The 2023 Africa Games has been postponed to 2024 with no specific dates given, the LOC has announced in a press conference today. The games were scheduled for August 2023 in Accra but Ghana had been struggling to deliver the infrastructure in time for the games. #JoySports pic.twitter.com/zqgZNGab3f
— Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo (@Fentuo_) February 21, 2023
The 2019 edition of the African Games in Casablanca, Morocco saw the nation of South Africa top the overall swimming medal table followed by Egypt and Algeria.
Men’s individual gold medalists for South Africa included Martin Binedell, Michael Houlie, Alaric Basson and Ryan Coetzee while women’s individual gold medalists for the top nation included Erin Gallagher, Kaylene Corbett, Jessica Whelan and Samantha Randle.
This picture and the Douglass-Walsh picture are the most iconic duo
Does Ghana have a nice pool to host this meet?
I would like to visit the pool if they do!
They do! It’s pretty new. Here’s a nice video about it: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=223040328875572
We can expect to see Russia taking part with Herr Bach’s blessing.
African swimming only consists of South Africa and even then it’s only white South Africans. We don’t need these articles.
How rude. There are many african countries that are participating in these games, yes South Africa does have “better swimmers” and yes they are “white” but why should that matter. If you’re a good swimmer you’re a good swimmer regardless of what your skin colour is.
Think fast: Who won the men’s 400 free in Tokyo?
You do know Egyptians,Tunisians,white South Africans, Morrocans etc don’t consider themselves Africans right?
I am Egyptian and I consider myself African, all of my fellow countrymen consider themselves African. Along with those countries you mentioned, African. It has nothing to do with color. 🙂
And you do know that Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and South Africa (even the white ones, gasp!) attend the African Games? Believe it or not, Egypt, Morocco, and South Africa have all even hosted the games.
Sounds like we need *more* articles like this.
Tthhhgg gonna be shocked when he finds out that South Africa only had 4 more medals than Egypt in 2019.