1995 All-Africa Games

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

South Africa, having finally given up her apartheid policies after decades of pressure from the rest of Africa was invited to the games for the first time.

With a record 6000 athletes participating in the games the games were in danger of growing unmanageable. Juan Antonio Samaranch, asked the organizers not to try and copy the Olympic Games, because of the financial and organizational costs.

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

Mozambiques World Champion 800 meter runner Maria 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-African Games in 1999.

1 Medal table
2 Athletics
3 Soccer
4 External link

[edit] Medal table

Host country in bold.

1995 All-Africa Games medal count
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa	64	51	39	154
2	Egypt	61	43	50	154
3	Nigeria	36	31	40	107
4	Algeria	15	16	26	57
5	Kenya	12	11	17	40
6	Tunisia	9	11	19	39
7	Zimbabwe	6	6	23	35
8	Senegal	5	4	6	15
9	Cameroon	3	13	10	26
10	Mauritius	3	6	9	18
11	Madagascar	2	2	5	9
12	Gabon	2	0	6	8
13	Ethiopia	1	5	6	12
14	Ghana	1	4	2	7
15	Mozambique	1	2	0	3
16	Sierra Leone	1	1	0	2
17	Tanzania	1	0	1	2
18	Burundi	1	0	0	1
19	Namibia	0	4	3	7
20	Côte d'Ivoire	0	4	2	6
21	Zambia	0	2	2	4
22	Lesotho	0	1	2	3
22	Seychelles	0	1	2	3
24	Burkina Faso	0	1	0	1
	Central African Republic	0	1	0	1
	Guinea	0	1	0	1
	Libya	0	1	0	1
	Mali	0	1	0	1
29	Angola	0	0	3	3
29	Swaziland	0	0	3	3
31	Uganda	0	0	2	2
32	Botswana	0	0	1	1
32	Congo	0	0	1	1
		224	223	280	727

[edit] 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 (5000 metres and 10000 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.