1995 All-Africa Games

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VI All-Africa Games
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Official logo of the Games
Host city Harare, Zimbabwe
Nations46
Events17 sports
Opening13 September
Closing23 September
Opened by Robert Mugabe
Main venue National Sports Stadium

The 6th All-Africa Games, also known as Harare 1995, were played from 13 to 23 September 1995 in Harare, Zimbabwe. 46 countries participated in eighteen sports.

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South Africa, having previously been banned from competition by the other African nations, was invited to the games for the first time after the fall of the Apartheid regime. [1]

With a record 6,000 athletes participating in the games, the event were in danger of growing unmanageable. The then president of the International Olympic Committee, the Spaniard Juan Antonio Samaranch expressed concern over the dizzying growth of the event in just 4 years, asking the organizers of the next editions to avoid applying the same scale of the Summer Olympics.

Petty controversy again entered the games. An Egyptian woman handball player was accused of being a man [2] and the Egyptian team protested that the lace sleeves worn by the South African gymnasts were too "sexy".

Mozambique's World Champion 800 meter runner Maria de Lurdes Mutola won her specialty in Harare.

Of the 17 sports on the program, 8 were open to participation by women: athletics, basketball, gymnastics, handball, swimming, table tennis, tennis and volleyball. Women's diving and netball were to be included but were reduced to demonstration sports due to a lack of entries.

At the closing ceremonies the torch was passed to Johannesburg, South Africa to begin preparations for the VIIth All-Africa Games in 1999.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Zimbabwe)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa  (SAF)645139154
2Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt  (EGY)614350154
3Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria  (NGR)363140107
4Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria  (ALG)15162657
5Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya  (KEN)12111740
6Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia  (TUN)9111939
7Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe  (ZIM)*662335
8Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal  (SEN)54615
9Flag of Cameroon.svg  Cameroon  (CMR)3131026
10Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius  (MRI)36918
11Flag of Madagascar.svg  Madagascar  (MAD)2259
12Flag of Gabon.svg  Gabon  (GAB)2068
13Flag of Ethiopia (1975-1987).svg  Ethiopia  (ETH)15612
14Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana  (GHA)1427
15Flag of Mozambique.svg  Mozambique  (MOZ)1203
16Flag of Sierra Leone.svg  Sierra Leone  (SLE)1102
17Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania  (TAN)1012
18Flag of Burundi.svg  Burundi  (BDI)1001
19Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia  (NAM)0437
20Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast  (CIV)0426
21Flag of Zambia (1964-1996).svg  Zambia  (ZAM)0224
22Flag of Lesotho (1987-2006).svg  Lesotho  (LES)0123
Flag of Seychelles (1977-1996).svg  Seychelles  (SEY)0123
24Flag of Burkina Faso.svg  Burkina Faso  (BUR)0101
Flag of the Central African Republic.svg  Central African Republic  (CAF)0101
Flag of Guinea.svg  Guinea  (GUI)0101
Flag of Libya (1977-2011).svg  Libya  (LBA)0101
Flag of Mali.svg  Mali  (MLI)0101
29Flag of Angola.svg  Angola  (ANG)0033
Flag of Eswatini.svg  Eswatini  (SWZ)0033
31Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda  (UGA)0022
32Flag of Botswana.svg  Botswana  (BOT)0011
Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg  Congo  (CGO)0011
Totals (33 entries)224223280727

Athletics

Discus thrower Adewale Olukoju and sprinter Mary Onyali became the first athletes to win four All-Africa gold medals. Onyali won the 100 and 200 metres races, and together with Josphat Machuka, Kenya (5,000 metres and 10,000 metres) they became the only athletes to win more than one event.

In addition, Nigeria won three of the four relay races; 4x400 metres for men and women as well as men's 4x100 metres.

Some new women's events were added: 5000 metres, marathon and triple jump.

Field hockey

Football

The football tournament was won by Egypt, who became the first team to win this tournament twice.

Gold:Silver:Bronze:
Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt

Coach:

Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe

Coach:

Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria

Coach:

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