Youth Olympic Games in Dakar: five African countries in world top 10
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Guinee360 and SeneNews
Illustrative image · cricrimo · Pixabay · Licence PixabayNineteen African countries won medals at the Dakar Youth Olympic Games, with 73 medals in total, 27 of them gold, according to Guinee360. The continent has five representatives among the top ten nations in the overall standings: Egypt, Ethiopia, Senegal, Kenya and South Africa.
The African medal total is 73, or even 75 according to other tallies, which count 17 silver medals and 31 bronze. In the official overall standings, Egypt is fourth, ahead of Ethiopia (fifth) and Senegal (sixth); Kenya (eighth) and South Africa (ninth) complete the list of African nations in the top 10.
Egypt won 12 medals, six of them gold. Ethiopia has eight, five of them gold, mainly won in middle- and long-distance running. Senegal, the host nation, totals 12 medals, including five gold and seven bronze, making it the African country with the most bronze medals. It had never before stood on a podium at these Games, and its success is due in particular to beach wrestling, taekwondo and basketball.
Kenya has six medals, four of them gold, and South Africa has 11: three gold, five silver and three bronze, the continent’s third-highest total behind Egypt and Senegal. On 13 November, beach handball brought Senegal two bronze medals, one in the women’s event and one in the men’s, the only African medals won that day from five finals.
Further down, Nigeria (17th) has three gold medals, Zimbabwe (61st) just one, and Morocco (66th) four, including one silver and three bronze. Uganda (84th) has three, all bronze.
