African Taekwondo Championships

The African Taekwondo Championships are the African senior taekwondo championships and held every two years by the African Taekwondo Union along with the South African Taekwondo Federation, both the continental affiliates of World Taekwondo. ^[1] This is a recognized G-4 senior event by World Taekwondo. ^{[2] [3]}

List of tournaments

All the listed editions of the tournament. ^[4]

Edition	Year	Host city	Host country	Men's champion	Women's champion
1	1996 ( details )	Johannesburg	South Africa	Lesotho	Kenya
2	1998 ( details )	Nairobi	Kenya	Lesotho	Lesotho
3	2001 ( details )	Dakar	Senegal	Senegal	Senegal
4	2003 ( details )	Abuja	Nigeria	Egypt	Egypt
5	2005 ( details )	Antananarivo	Madagascar	Ivory Coast	Ivory Coast
6	2009 ( details )	Yaounde	Cameroon	Egypt	Morocco
7	2010 ( details )	Tripoli	Libya	Tunisia	Morocco
8	2012 ( details )	Antananarivo	Madagascar	Ivory Coast	Egypt
9	2014 ( details )	Tunis	Tunisia	Egypt	Egypt
10	2016 ( details )	Port Said	Egypt	Egypt	Egypt
11	2018 ( details )	Agadir	Morocco	Tunisia	Morocco
12	2021 ( details )	Dakar [5]	Senegal	Tunisia [6]	Morocco [7]
12	2022 ( details )	Kigali [8]	Rwanda	Morocco [9] [10]	Morocco [9] [10]
13	2023 ( details )	Abidjan [11]	Ivory Coast	Morocco [12] [13]	Morocco [12] [13]

All time medal table

List of medal count by countries ^[14]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt	49	36	42	127
2	Morocco	38	24	34	96
3	Ivory Coast	30	31	50	111
4	Tunisia	27	19	25	71
5	Lesotho	15	9	13	37
6	Senegal	14	18	28	60
7	Kenya	9	15	21	45
8	Niger	6	4	12	22
9	South Africa	5	8	11	24
10	Libya	5	7	15	27
11	Gabon	5	6	24	35
12	Mali	4	6	25	35
13	Nigeria	2	9	17	28
14	Central African Republic	2	0	1	3
15	Madagascar	1	3	12	16
16	Algeria	1	2	8	11
17	Ethiopia	1	1	1	3
18	Uganda	1	0	6	7
19	Cape Verde	1	0	4	5
20	Congo	0	3	10	13
	DR Congo	0	3	10	13
22	Cameroon	0	3	5	8
23	Ghana	0	1	6	7
24	Chad	0	1	3	4
25	Angola	0	1	2	3
26	Gambia	0	1	1	2
	Sudan	0	1	1	2
28	Benin	0	1	0	1
29	Eswatini	0	0	5	5
30	Mauritius	0	0	3	3
	Rwanda	0	0	3	3
32	Comoros	0	0	2	2
	Mozambique	0	0	2	2
34	Somalia	0	0	1	1
	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	0	1	1
Totals (35 entries)		216	213	404	833

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