2003 All-Africa Games

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The 8th All-Africa Games were played from October 5, 2003 to October 17, 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria. 53 countries participated in 22 sports.

1 Medal table
2 Results
3 External links

[edit] Medal table

Host country in bold.

2003 ALL-AFRICA GAMES MEDAL COUNT
POS	PARTICIPATING NATION	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
1	Nigeria	85	90	65	226
2	Egypt	80	62	72	214
3	South Africa	63	59	49	171
4	Algeria	32	24	31	87
5	Tunisia	30	29	30	89
6	Cameroon	8	4	23	35
7	Senegal	6	9	19	34
8	Ethiopia	5	8	7	20
9	Kenya	5	5	4	14
10	Ghana	4	5	16	25
11	Botswana	4	1	6	11
12	Angola	3	3	7	13
13	Madagascar	3	0	3	6
14	Libya	2	3	5	10
15	Zimbabwe	2	3	2	7
16	Lesotho	2	1	3	6
17	Côte d'Ivoire	1	1	7	9
18	Tanzania	1	0	1	2
19	Cape Verde	1	0	0	1
19	Central African Republic	1	0	0	1
21	Seychelles	0	10	6	16
22	Namibia	0	3	4	7
23	Congo	0	1	5	6
	Mali	0	1	5	6
	Zambia	0	1	5	6
26	Uganda	0	1	4	5
27	Benin	0	1	2	3
28	Congo DR	0	1	1	2
29	Gabon	0	1	0	1
29	Gambia	0	1	0	1
31	Burkina Faso	0	0	3	3
	Mauritius	0	0	3	3
	Niger	0	0	3	3
	Togo	0	0	3	3
35	Sudan	0	0	2	2
36	Guinea	0	0	1	1
	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	0	1	1
	Sierra Leone	0	0	1	1

[edit] Results

[edit] Athletics

Mary Onyali of Nigeria won gold medals over 100 metres and 200 metres, taking her third and fourth gold medal since 1991. Kutre Dulecha won her third title in a row over 1500 metres. Nigeria won both women's relay races; 4x100 metres and 4x400 metres.

More results: Athletics at the 2003 All-Africa Games

[edit] Boxing

The boxing tournament at the 2003 All-Africa Games also served as a qualification event for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. A total number of 182 fighters from 27 countries did participate in Ajuba, Nigeria, with the host country (four gold, three silver, no bronze) as the overall-winner before Egypt (three gold, two silver, two bronze) and Algeria (two gold, one silver, four bronze). All the finalists got quotes for the 2004 Summer Olympics. Two more qualification tournaments followed afterwards on the African continent: in Casablanca, Morocco (January 15 to January 22, 2004) and in Gaborone, Botswana (March 15 to March 22, 2004).

[edit] Soccer

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The men's soccer tournament was won by Cameroon, who became the only team to win this tournament thrice. A women's tournament was also introduced, the gold medals won by host country Nigeria.

Men

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Cameroon Coach:	Nigeria Coach:	Ghana Coach:

Women

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Nigeria Coach:	South Africa Coach:	Cameroon Coach:

[edit] Squash

Event:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Men's singles:	Karim Darwish, Egypt	Mohammed Abbas, Egypt	Rudney Durbach, South Africa Adrian Hansen, South Africa
Women's singles:	Omneya Abdel Kawy, Egypt	Engy Kheirallah, Egypt	Eman el Amir, Egypt Amnah el Trabolsy, Egypt
Men's team:	Egypt	South Africa	Nigeria Zambia
Women's team:	Egypt	South Africa	Nigeria