Originally scheduled for this month in Ghana, the 2023 African Games have officially been postponed to next year.
The African Union (AU), the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) and the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC) announced this week that the quadrennial event will be held in March 2024, also in the host city of Accra, Ghana.
Like when the Tokyo Olympic Games kept the title of “Olympic Games 2020” despite the postponement, Ghana will follow suit with the name of “Accra 2023” which will be kept in 2024.
Under the new timetable, 12 of the 24 sports proposed for the African Games will be used as qualifiers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, following the approval of the President of the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC), General Ahmed Nasser, and the President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Mustapha Berraf.
The disciplines are athletics, 3×3 basketball, badminton, beach volleyball, cycling and judo, swimming, tennis, table tennis, triathlon, volleyball and wrestling.
The 2019 edition of the African Games in Casablanca, Morocco saw South Africa lead the overall medal table in swimming, followed by Egypt and Algeria.
