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unusual facts about 1987 All-Africa Games


1987 All-Africa Games

A torch was relayed from Nairobi to the Kenyan coast, the Kenyan highlands and back to Nairobi where World Champion John Ngugi carried it into the stadium in front of an enthusiastic crowd of 80,000.


1965 All-Africa Games

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.

The first All-Africa Games were played from July 18, 1965 to July 25, 1965 in Brazzaville, Congo.

1987 All-American Bowl

BYU had one last shot at a go-ahead touchdown in the final minutes, but Covey was stopped two feet short on a fourth-down run by defensive end Sean Scott.

The Cougars answered with a one-yard TD pass from Sean Covey to Whittingham that made it 22–16 with 7:09 remaining.

The Cougars had a first-and-goal from the 4-yard line but Darren Handley dropped a would-be touchdown pass on third down.

1987 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

The 1987 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 100th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1987 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.

1987 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

The championship ran from May to September of that year, culminating with the All-Ireland final, held at Croke Park, Dublin on 6 September.

1995 All-Africa Games

Discus thrower Adewale Olukoju and sprinter Mary Onyali became the first athletes to win four All-Africa gold medals.

2010 African Championships in Athletics

Previously two major athletics events have been held in Kenya, namely 1987 All-Africa Games and 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Abdel Sattar Sabry

He was part of the gold medal-winning side in the 1995 All-Africa Games, and featured in the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations squad which finished champion in Burkina Faso, winning 70 full caps in only six years of international play and scoring 11 goals.

Ashu Kasim

She had further success on the track the following year as she was fourth in the 10,000 metres at the 2007 All-Africa Games.

Atsede Baysa

She was the half marathon silver medallist at the 2007 All-Africa Games.

Baseball at the 1999 All-Africa Games

Six teams participated in the tournament, with the winner being qualified for a playoff with the champion of Oceania, the winner of which would be then qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia.

Braimah Kamoko

Braimah first rose to prominence by winning a bronze medal in the Heavyweight 1999 All-Africa Games organized in Johannesburg, South Africa from 10 September to 18 September.

Clarisse Rasoarizay

She won the women's marathon at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria and the 1997 Jeux de la Francophonie.

Emad Abdelhalim Ali

Ali is best known for having won the gold medal in the men's super heavyweight division at the 2007 All-Africa Games.

Football in Ghana

In 1992, Olympic U-23 team became the first African country to win a medal at Olympic Games football and in 2011 the Black Meteors were crowned 2011 All-Africa Games champions for the first time.

Genet Gebregiorgis

She won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 1995 All-Africa Games held in Harare.

Junior Mikamou

Mikamou won a bronze medal at the 2007 All-Africa Games, losing to Manyo Plange of Ghana.

Kenza Dahmani

Her half marathon performance led to her first senior international selections: she was runner-up at the Arab Athletics Championships, the bronze medallist at the 2007 All-Africa Games, and the silver medallist at the 2007 Pan Arab Games.

Leann Fennelly

Her father and six of his brothers played together to win the 1989 Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship and four (Kevin, Seán, Ger and Liam) played together in the All Ireland hurling final of 1987.

Mahatma Otoo

In September 2011, Otoo played for Black Meteors of Ghana in the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique.

Mourad Sahraoui

At the 2007 All-Africa Games he fought at heavyweight and defeated David Assiene of Cameroon and Abdelaziz Toulbini of Algeria in the first rounds and then Lateef Kayode of Nigeria in the final.

Pan-Armenian Games

He first thought of the idea of organizing universal games for all Armenians while he was on a business trip in 1965 to Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, that was getting ready to participate in the first Pan-African Games.

Pape Landing Sambou

Sambou represented Senegal at U23 level during qualification for the 2007 All-Africa Games football tournament.

Perel Rivan

Rivan won a silver medal at the 2003 All-Africa Games and competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

South Africa at the 2011 All-Africa Games

Men - Roland Schoeman, Gideon Louw, Darian Townsend, Leath Shankland, Jean Basson, Jasper Venter, Mark Randall, Gerhardus Zandberg, Charl Crous, Darren Murray, Cameron van der Burgh, Neil Versfeld, Thabang Moeketsane, Neil Watson, Garth Tune, Chad le Clos, Riaan Schoeman, Malesela Molepo, Edward Johanniesen

In the swimming code Olympic gold medallist Roland Schoeman will be joined by 2012 Olympic Games medal hope Cameron van der Burgh who won two bronze medals at the recent FINA world championships in China.

Sport in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe also did well in the Commonwealth Games and All-Africa Games in swimming, with Coventry winning 11 gold medals in the different competitions.

Yussif Chibsah

He was captain of the Ghana olympic team, who exited in the first round of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, having finished in third place in Group B and was also the captain of the Ghana Meteors in the 2003 All Africa Games in Abuja that won the bronze medal.His international efforts was recognized as he was a member of the Ghanaian standby players in 2006 World Cup in Germany after playing most of the matches of the qualifying round.


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