Boxing at the African Games

Boxing at the African Games

Boxing
First event	1965 Brazzaville
Occur every	four years
Last event	2023 Accra
Best	Algeria (ALG)

Boxing was an African Games event at its inaugural edition in 1965 and has continued to feature prominently at the competition in each of its subsequent editions.

Games	Year	Host city	Events		Best nation
			Men	Women
I	1965	Brazzaville	10	—	Egypt
II	1973	Lagos	11	—	Nigeria
III	1978	Algiers	11	—	Kenya
IV	1987	Nairobi	12	—	Kenya
V	1991	Cairo	12	—	Kenya
VI	1995	Harare	12	—	Tunisia
VII	1999	Johannesburg	12	—	Algeria
VIII	2003	Abuja	11	—	Nigeria
IX	2007	Algiers	11	—	Algeria
X	2011	Maputo	10	—	Algeria
XI	2015	Brazzaville	10	3	Algeria
XII	2019	Rabat	8	5	Morocco
XIII	2023	Accra	13	12	Nigeria

As of 2023:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Algeria (ALG)	27	20	21	68
2	Nigeria (NGR)	27	20	14	61
3	Kenya (KEN)	19	11	16	46
4	Egypt (EGY)	18	12	16	46
5	Tunisia (TUN)	12	10	14	36
6	Ghana (GHA)	8	11	12	31
7	Uganda (UGA)	8	9	11	28
8	Zambia (ZAM)	7	4	9	20
9	Morocco (MAR)	6	5	6	17
10	Mauritius (MRI)	6	3	4	13
11	DR Congo (COD)	3	10	10	23
12	Ethiopia (ETH)	3	4	7	14
13	Botswana (BOT)	3	2	4	9
14	Cameroon (CMR)	3	1	15	19
15	Tanzania (TAN)	2	6	7	15
16	South Africa (RSA)	2	4	10	16
17	Guinea (GUI)	2	0	1	3
18	Namibia (NAM)	1	4	3	8
19	Madagascar (MAD)	1	2	2	5
20	Republic of the Congo (CGO)	1	1	1	3
21	Sudan (SUD)	1	1	0	2
22	Senegal (SEN)	1	0	3	4
23	Mozambique (MOZ)	0	5	3	8
24	Niger (NIG)	0	2	0	2
	Togo (TOG)	0	2	0	2
26	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	1	1	2
27	Burkina Faso (BUR)	0	1	0	1
	Equatorial Guinea (GEQ)	0	1	0	1
	Mali (MLI)	0	1	0	1
	Seychelles (SEY)	0	1	0	1
31	Gabon (GAB)	0	0	7	7
32	Lesotho (LES)	0	0	4	4
33	Angola (ANG)	0	0	2	2
	Benin (BEN)	0	0	2	2
	Central African Republic (CAF)	0	0	2	2
	Libya (LBA)	0	0	2	2
37	Burundi (BDI)	0	0	1	1
	Cape Verde (CPV)	0	0	1	1
	Liberia (LBR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (39 entries)		161	154	212	527

• Boxing results at the All-Africa Games (amateur-boxing.strefa.pl)

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