2023 African Games postponed to 2024, remain in Ghana

The 2023 African Games were originally scheduled to take place this month in Ghana, but have officially been postponed until next year.

The African Union (AU), the Association of African National Olympic Committees (ANOCA) and the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC) announced this week that the quadrennial event will now take place in March 2024 and will remain in the host city. Accra, Ghana.

As when the Tokyo Olympics retained their title for the 2020 Olympics despite the postponement, Ghana will follow suit and the 2023 Accra title will be moved to 2024.

The new schedule will see 12 of the proposed 24 sports in the African Games compete in the qualifiers for the 2024 Olympics in Paris following the approval of General Ahmed, the president of the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC). Nasser and the president of the Association of African National Olympic Committees (ANOCA), Mustapha Berraf.

The disciplines are athletics, basketball 3×3, badminton, beach volleyball, cycling and judo, swimming, tennis, table tennis, triathlon, volleyball and wrestling.

The 2023 Africa Games have been postponed to 2024 without specific dates, the LOC announced at a press conference today. The Games were scheduled to be held in August 2023 in Accra, but Ghana struggled to deliver infrastructure in time for the Games. #JoySports pic.twitter.com/zqgZNGab3f

— Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo (@Fentuo_) February 21, 2023

At the 2019 African Games in Casablanca, Morocco, the South African country topped the overall swimming medal table, followed by Egypt and Algeria.

Including the men’s individual gold medalists for South Africa Martin Binedell, Michael Houlie, Alaric Basson and Ryan Coetzee while including the women’s individual gold medalists for the top nation Erin Gallagher, Kaylene Corbett, Jessica Whelan and Samantha Randle.