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
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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.
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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.
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The first All-Africa Games were played from July 18, 1965 to July 25, 1965 in Brazzaville, Congo.
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.
Discus thrower Adewale Olukoju and sprinter Mary Onyali became the first athletes to win four All-Africa gold medals.
Previously two major athletics events have been held in Kenya, namely 1987 All-Africa Games and 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
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.
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.
She was the half marathon silver medallist at the 2007 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 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.
She won the women's marathon at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria and the 1997 Jeux de la Francophonie.
Ali is best known for having won the gold medal in the men's super heavyweight division at the 2007 All-Africa Games.
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.
She won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 1995 All-Africa Games held in Harare.
Mikamou won a bronze medal at the 2007 All-Africa Games, losing to Manyo Plange of Ghana.
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.
In September 2011, Otoo played for Black Meteors of Ghana in the 2011 All-Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique.
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.
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.
Sambou represented Senegal at U23 level during qualification for the 2007 All-Africa Games football tournament.
Rivan won a silver medal at the 2003 All-Africa Games and competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Zimbabwe also did well in the Commonwealth Games and All-Africa Games in swimming, with Coventry winning 11 gold medals in the different competitions.
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.