Basketball at the 2014 African Youth Games | |
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Start date | 24 May |
End date | 30 May |
Venue | Botswana National Youth Centre (BNYC) |
Events | Basketball |
← 2010 |
2014 African Youth Games in Gaborone was held between 28 and 31 May at the Botswana National Stadium. The competition served as the qualification for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics which took place in August in Nanjing, China. [1] [2]
The boys' and girls' tournament will adopt a round robin group stage and a single-elimination medal round, where the 10 participating teams are split into 2 pools of 10. Each team will play once against the other teams in its pool, and the top 8 teams from each pool will qualify for the knock-out stages.
Pool A | Pool B |
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Botswana | Angola |
Kenya | Uganda |
Morocco | South Sudan |
Tunisia | Egypt |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | Algeria |
Note: Guam entered a girls' basketball team into Group B of the competition; there was no Guam boys' team at the tournament
Pool A | Pool B |
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Angola | Nigeria |
Botswana | Mali |
Zimbabwe | Rwanda |
Mauritius | Algeria |
Egypt | Mozambique |
* Host nation (Botswana)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Egypt (EGY) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
2 | Angola (ANG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
3 | Mali (MLI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
4 | Algeria (ALG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo (COD) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (5 nations) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Boys' tournament | Angola | Egypt | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Girls' tournament | Egypt | Mali | Algeria |
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