Description: Shipping from Europe with tracking number /1965 All-Africa GamesI All-Africa GamesHost cityBrazzaville, CongoOpening18 July 1965Closing25 July 1965Opened byAlphonse Massemba-DébatLagos 1973 →The 1st All-Africa Games – Brazzaville 1965 was a multi-sport event played from 18 to 25 July 1965, in Brazzaville, Congo.HistoryThe first games to open to the entire African continent occurred a full forty years after they were first envisioned. Pierre de Coubertin, had proposed the first African Games be held in Algiers, Algeria in 1925. The games were never organized. Four years later, Alexandria, Egypt had almost completed preparations for the African Games of 1929 when the colonial powers stepped in to cancel the games, weeks before they were to begin. The colonizers felt the games might serve to unite Africa, and help them break free from their colonial status. The idea of a continental games languished for a time until regional games in West Africa in the early sixties paved the way for the first continental games to be held in July 1965.Foreshadowing what was to become accepted protocol at major international games, and reflecting the continent's relative political instability, the Congo-Brazzaville Army was on high alert throughout the games for "malcontents" and "counter-revolutionaries". All highways in and out of Brazzaville were patrolled by armored vehicles and all cars within the city, except for games participants and journalists, were stopped and inspected at major checkpoints.2500 athletes from 29 nations marched in to the stadium. Avery Brundage, the IOC president attended the games as the IOC's chief observer.The games' success was due in a large part to the emerging African stars, such as Wilson Kiprugut Chuma (silver medalist in the Tokyo 800 meters), Mohammed Gammoudi (silver medalist Tokyo, 10,000 meters), and Kip Keino, Naftali Temu and Mamo Wolde, who would all win medals three years later at the Mexico City Olympic Games.Men competed in ten sports, women just two; athletics and basketball.The top medal winning nation was the United Arab Republic, at one time a political union of Egypt and Syria.*(It is not yet known if any athletes from Syria competed or won medals in the African Games)Participating nationsAmong the countries that participated at the 1965 All Africa Games were: Algeria Cameroon Chad Central African Republic Republic of the Congo DR Congo Ivory Coast Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Kenya Madagascar Mali Niger Nigeria Senegal Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda United Arab Republic Upper Volta Zambia Benin (Dahomey)This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (August 2012)SportsThis section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (August 2012)AthleticsBoxingCyclingJudoTennisSwimmingFootball (Soccer)BasketballVolleyballHandballMedal table * Host nation (Congo (Congo-Brazzaville))RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal1 United Arab Republic (UAR)17103302 Nigeria (NGR)964193 Kenya (KEN)8114234 Senegal (SEN)637165 Ivory Coast (CIV)525126 Ghana (GHA)246127 Algeria (ALG)236118 Mali (MLI)21039 Sudan (SUD)162910 Tunisia (TUN)1561211 Cameroon (CMR)1225 Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)*122513 Madagascar (MAD)024614 Uganda (UGA)014515 Upper Volta (VOL)011216 Chad (CHA)0033 Gabon (GAB)003318 Togo (TOG)002219 DR Congo (COD)0011 Ethiopia (ETH)0011 Niger (NIG)0011 Tanzania (TAN)0011 Zambia (ZAM)0011Totals (23 entries)555969183
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