2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

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VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie
Host cityAbidjan, Ivory Coast
Nations49
Athletes4,000
OpeningJuly 21, 2017
ClosingJuly 30, 2017
Opened byAlassane Ouattara
Main venueStade Félix Houphouet-Boigny
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The 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie (French for 8th Francophone Games), informally known as Abidjan 2017, took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from July 21–30. This was the first edition of the games to be hosted in Ivory Coast.[1]

Since 2011, it was the third international competition held in Abidjan, after the 2013 World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships and the 2013 AfroBasket.

Venues

Ten cultural and sports venues will be situated in three geographic zones in Abidjan :

Zone A (Marcory and Treichville)

Zone B (Le Plateau)

Zone C (Cocody)

Participants

Of the 48 delegations participating, Kosovo and Ukraine were participating for the first time, while Laos returned to the Games for the first time since 2009. Countries that participated in 2013 that did not return in 2017 were Andorra, Austria, Cyprus, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Guinea-Bissau, Montenegro, Poland, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, and Slovakia.

Events

Medal table

Final medal tally below.

  *   Host nation (Ivory Coast)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 France22161149
2 Morocco13141542
3 Canada1381536
4 Senegal109827
5 Romania891431
6 Ivory Coast*68519
7 Cameroon57921
8 Quebec57618
9 Congo5005
10 Burkina Faso3429
11  Switzerland32914
12 Seychelles2013
13 Kosovo2002
14 Armenia1438
15 Mali1258
16 Niger1236
17 New Brunswick1225
18 Benin1135
 Mauritius1135
20 Cape Verde1102
21 Tunisia1067
22 DR Congo1023
 Lebanon1023
24 Egypt1001
25Wallonia French Community of Belgium0224
26 Chad0213
27 Gabon0202
 Guinea0202
29 Luxembourg0134
30 Madagascar0123
31 Central African Republic0022
32 Cambodia0011
 Djibouti0011
 Togo0011
 Vietnam0011
Totals (35 entries)108107138353

Medalists

African wrestling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team  Senegal
Mouhamet Bousso
Omar Diouane
Moussa Faye
Cheikh Tidiane Niang
Moustapha Sène
 Burkina Faso
Débé Blaise
Emmanuel Romaric Kawané
Moussa Konané
Eloi Zerbo
Drissa Zon
 Niger
Mahamadou Alimiyaou
Garba Mourtala
Tassiou Sani
Tassiou Ibrahim
Yahaya Kaka
Men's 66 kg Moussa Faye
 Senegal
Roland Tambi Nforsong
 Cameroon
Mahamadou Alimiyaou
 Niger
Men's 76 kg Madalin Minzala
 Romania
Garba Mourtala
 Niger
Omar Diouane
 Senegal
Men's 86 kg Cheikh Tidiane Niang
 Senegal
Drissa Zon
 Burkina Faso
Tassiou Ibrahim
 Niger
Men's 100 kg Moustapha Sène
 Senegal
Yahaya Kaka
 Niger
Eloi Zerbo
 Burkina Faso
Men's +100 kg Mouhamet Bousso
 Senegal
Emmanuel Romaric Kawané
 Burkina Faso
Anas El Mkabber
 Morocco
Women's team  Senegal
Binette Diatta
Safietou Goudiaby
Marie Therese Manga
Anta Sambou
Nahamie Sambou
 Ivory Coast
Assetou Coulibaly
Makourakou Diomande
Tiemongo Soro
Caroline Yapi N'De
Amy Youin
 Cameroon
Joseph Essombe
Berthe Etane Ngolle
Danielle Sino Guemde
Women's 45 kg Nahamie Sambou
 Senegal
Josiane Danimbe Lubahitar
 Chad
Caroline Yapi N'De
 Ivory Coast
Women's 50 kg Madalina Linguraru
 Romania
Binette Diatta
 Senegal
Tiemongo Soro
 Ivory Coast
Women's 60 kg Joseph Essombe
 Cameroon
Safietou Goudiaby
 Senegal
Josiane Nabi
 Burkina Faso
Women's 70 kg Amy Youin
 Ivory Coast
Fatoumata Yarie Camara
 Guinea
Marie Therese Manga
 Senegal
Women's 80 kg Anta Sambou
 Senegal
Samsia Gassida Godah
 Chad
Cătălina Axente
 Romania

Athletics

Basketball

Cultural

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Hip-hop dance Sn9per Crew
 Cameroon
04 LKARWA
 Morocco
Pockemon Crew
 France
Giant puppetry Ivoire Marionnettes
 Ivory Coast
Pi
 Canada
Nama
 Mali
Ball juggling Stylers Crew
 Morocco
S3
 France
Kassio Ignace
 Ivory Coast
Painting Yazan Halwani
 Lebanon
Mbaye Babacar Diouf
 Senegal
Ahmed Youssef Ahmed
 Egypt
Sculpture Rémi Ama Sossouvi
 Benin
Émilie Grace Lavoie
 New Brunswick
Serge Ecker
 Luxembourg
Photography Laurence-Azita Rasti
 Switzerland
Anush Babajanyan
 Armenia
Annie France Noël
 New Brunswick
Digital creation Sabrina Ratté
 Canada
Aboubacar Bablé Draba
 Mali
Clément Hugues
 Quebec
Ecological creation Jeux WASA
 Canada
PARO-CI
 Ivory Coast
David Ngaba
 Chad
Song Fanie Fayar
 Congo
Awa Mounaya Yanni
 Senegal
Céléna-Sophia
 Wallonia
Storytelling Julles Moussoki Mitchum
 Congo
Compagnie Arc-en-ciel
 Guinea
Najoua Darwiche
 France
Traditional inspiration dance Les Frères Joseph
 Mauritius
Soul City
 France
N'Soleh
 Ivory Coast
Literature Razak René
 Niger
Gabriel Robichaud
 New Brunswick
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
 Senegal

Cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's road race Pierre Idjouadiene
 France
Soufiane Sahbaoui
 Morocco
Bruno Armirail
 France
Women's road race Pauline Allin
 France
Soline Lamboley
 France
Alexxa Albrecht
 Quebec

Football

Judo

Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Extra-lightweight
60 kg
Jolan Florimont
 France
Flavio Dimarca
 Wallonia
Lionel Schwander
 Switzerland
Mohammed Jafy
 Morocco
Half-lightweight
66 kg
Franck Vernez
 France
Gueorgui Poklitar
 Quebec
Dieudonné Nama Etoga
 Cameroon
Imad Bassou
 Morocco
Lightweight
73 kg
Akil Gjakova
 Kosovo
Ahmed El Meziati
 Morocco
Alexandru Raicu
 Romania
Patrick Cantin
 Quebec
Half-middleweight
81 kg
Alpha Oumar Djalo
 France
Achraf Moutii
 Morocco
Saliou Ndiaye
 Senegal
Franck Bell Ngindjel
 Cameroon
Middleweight
90 kg
Louis Krieber-Gagnon
 Quebec
Tobias Meier
 Switzerland
Grigor Sahakyan
 Armenia
Zachary Burt
 Canada
Half-heavyweight
100 kg
Rebouka Ariano
 France
Marc Deschenes
 Canada
Luca Kunszabo
 Romania
Ousmane Diallo
 Mali
Heavyweight
+100 kg
Messie Katanga
 France
Mbagnick Ndiaye
 Senegal
Jean-François Ouellet
 Quebec
Adil Hajji
 Morocco
Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Extra-lightweight
48 kg
Olfa Saoudi
 Tunisia
Virginia Aymard
 France
Aziza Chakir
 Morocco
Diana Kwan Hu
 Madagascar
Half-lightweight
52 kg
Distria Krasniqi
 Kosovo
Christianne Legentil
 Mauritius
Tamara Silva
 Switzerland
Ikram Soukate
 Morocco
Lightweight
57 kg
Sarah Harachi
 France
Zouleiha Abzetta Dabonne
 Ivory Coast
Soumiya Iraoui
 Morocco
Sarah Sylva
 Mauritius
Half-middleweight
63 kg
Emily Burt
 Quebec
Cloe Yvin
 France
Sofia Belattar
 Morocco
Mariem Bjaoui
 Tunisia
Middleweight
70 kg
Melissa Heleine
 France
Alix Renaud-Roy
 Quebec
Fatim Fofana
 Ivory Coast
Ayuk Otay Arrey Sophina
 Cameroon
Half-heavyweight
78 kg
Stessie Bastareaud
 France
Mina Coulombe
 Canada
Audrey Dilane Njepang
 Cameroon
Sarra Mzougui
 Tunisia
Heavyweight
+78 kg
Anne Fatoumata M'Bairo
 France
Andrea Eyui Mbengone
 Gabon
Kimberly Carole Imongo
 DR Congo
Aicha Isilo
 Madagascar

Para-athletics

Event Class Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 200 m T44 Dimitri Pavadé
 France
Michaël Mayali
 France
Tristan Gaël Kangbazou
 Central African Republic
Men's long jump T44 Dimitri Pavadé
 France
Michaël Mayali
 France
Tristan Gaël Kangbazou
 Central African Republic
Men's 200 m T46–47 Akué N'Guessan Kouassi
 Ivory Coast
Serge Arthur Nakou
 Ivory Coast
Mahamane Sacko
 Mali
Men's long jump T46–47 Abdelkabir Jaddi
 Morocco
Addoh Frédéric Kimou
 Ivory Coast
Fayssal Atchiba
 Benin
Men's javelin throw F42–46 Aimé Atchoukeu Mbithe
 Cameroon
Semedo Marilson
 Cape Verde
Abdelhadi El Harti
 Morocco

Table tennis

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Joé Seyfried
 France
Alexandru Manole
 Romania
Antoine Bernadet
 Quebec
Gaël Vendé
 Switzerland
Women's singles Océane Guisnel
 France
Alina Georgiana Zaharia
 Romania
Abir Haj Salah
 Tunisia
Malak Khoury
 Lebanon
Mixed doubles  Romania
Alexandru Manole
Alina Georgiana Zaharia
 France
Océane Guisnel
Joé Seyfried
 Switzerland
Salomé Claire Simonet
Gaël Vendé
 Vietnam
Bùi Thế Nghĩa
Phạm Thị Thu Hương
Mixed team  France
Océane Guisnel
Joé Seyfried
 Romania
Alexandru Manole
Alina Georgiana Zaharia
 Lebanon
Mohamad Hamie
Malak Khoury
 Switzerland
Salomé Claire Simonet
Gaël Vendé

Wrestling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's freestyle 57 kg Steven Takahashi
 Canada
Mkhitar Grigoryan
 Armenia
Youssoup Deliev
 France
Marin Filip
 Romania
Men's freestyle 61 kg Adama Diatta
 Senegal
Ioan-Raul Donu
 Romania
Darthe Capellan
 Canada
Ashot Velitsyan
 Armenia
Men's freestyle 65 kg David Dobre
 Romania
Vincent De Marinis
 Quebec
Vaghinak Matevosyan
 Armenia
Dillon Williams
 Canada
Men's freestyle 70 kg Khachatur Papikyan
 Armenia
Roman Duscov
 Romania
Jean Bernard Diatta
 Senegal
Caleb Rutner
 Canada
Men's freestyle 74 kg Ahmed Shamiya
 Canada
Varuzhan Kajoyan
 Armenia
Madalin Minzala
 Romania
Guseyn Ruslanzada
 Quebec
Men's freestyle 86 kg Jordan Steen
 Canada
Marzpet Galstyan
 Armenia
Marcel Diboma
 Cameroon
Ion Pislaru
 Romania
Men's freestyle 97 kg Vlad Caras
 Romania
Quentin Milliere
 France
Cedric Nyamsi Tchouga
 Cameroon
Dalton Webb
 Canada
Men's freestyle 125 kg Sean Molle
 Canada
Frédérick Choquette
 Quebec
Thiacka Faye
 Senegal
Nicolas Tavernese
 France
Women's freestyle 48 kg Jade Parsons
 Canada
Tabatha Grunewald
 France
Madalina Linguraru
 Romania
Women's freestyle 53 kg Kristina McLaren
 Canada
Elisa Rasoanantenaina
 Madagascar
Chan Raksmey Chey
 Cambodia
Samantha Stewart
 New Brunswick
Women's freestyle 55 kg Laurence Beauregard
 Quebec
Madalina Simona Tudor
 Romania
Faridatou Gbadamassi
 Benin
Elisa Savalle
 France
Women's freestyle 58 kg Joseph Essombe
 Cameroon
Safietou Goudiaby
 Senegal
Sonia Baudin
 France
Emily Schaefer
 Canada
Women's freestyle 60 kg Aurelie Basset
 France
Denisa Iuliana Fodor
 Romania
Gertrude Prombove
 Cameroon
Hannah Franson
 Canada
Women's freestyle 63 kg Jessica Brouillette
 Canada
Linda Morais
 Quebec
Berthe Etane Ngolle
 Cameroon
Kriszta Incze
 Romania
Women's freestyle 69 kg Anta Sambou
 Senegal
Kayla Brodner
 Canada
Ania Mabunga Menga
 DR Congo
Pauline Lecarpentier
 France
Women's freestyle 75 kg Veronica Keefe
 Quebec
Danielle Sino Guemde
 Cameroon
Cătălina Axente
 Romania
Gracelynn Doogan
 Canada

References

  1. ^ "2017 Francophone Games to take place in Ivory Coast city Abidjan".

External links

Games 2017 at jeux.francophonie.org