South Africa wins AAG with 60 gold medals
•Nigeria 2nd with 27
By silibaba
Sunday, September 18, 2011


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The 10th All Africa Games will round up with a closing ceremony that promises to be exciting in all its ramifications, but South Africa remains the runaway winner, standing out comfortably on the medals with a total of 151 medals (60 gold, 52 silver, 39 bronze).
Nigeria came second with a total of 80 medals (27 gold, 22 silver and 31 bronze), while Egypt came third with a total of 55 medals (27 gold, 12 silver, 16 bronze). They were followed by Algeria, who won a total of 57 medals but had less gold medals than Tunisia, Kenya (51 in total), Senegal (27), Cameroon (25) and Ethiopia (26).
Angola, who came 10th overall with a total of 22 medals (5 gold, 8 silver, 9 bronze) was the second best SADC nation after South Africa.
SADC's other top medallists were Zimbabwe, which was 11th with a total of 13 medals (5 gold, 7 silver, 1 bronze); Mauritius, which came 12th with 13 medals (4 gold, 2 silver, 7 bronze); Botswana 15th with 15 medals (2 gold, 4 silver, 9 bronze); Seychelles, 17th with 13 medals (1 gold, 4 silver, 8 bronze); and host Mozambique 18th with 12 medals (1 gold, 3 silver, 8 bronze).
Namibia finished 20th overall on the medal standings at the Games with a total of seven medals by Saturday morning. The All Africa Games is now nearly completed, with just the soccer final still to be decided on Sunday afternoon, to be followed by the closing ceremony at the Zimpeto Stadium.

Naija is 3rd not second.

SA, Egy, Nig