2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

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]

VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie

Host city	Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Nations	49
Athletes	4,000
Opening	July 21, 2017
Closing	July 30, 2017
Opened by	Alassane Ouattara
Main venue	Stade Félix Houphouet-Boigny
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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 suburbs
• Zone B : Plateau suburb
• Zone C : Cocody suburb

Zone A (Marcory and Treichville)

• Stade Robert Champroux - Sporting competitions, Renovated in 2007
• Parc du Canal aux bois - Cultural events
• Palais des Sports de Treichville - Sporting competitions, Renovated in 2013
• Palace of Culture of Abidjan - Cultural events, Renovated in 2012
• Café-Théâtre, Centre national des arts et de la culture - Cultural events

Zone B (Le Plateau)

• Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny - Sporting competitions, To be renovated
• Ivory Coast Museum of Civilisations - Cultural events
• National Library of Ivory Coast - Cultural events
• French Cultural Centre - Cultural events

Zone C (Cocody)

• Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (campus) - Games village; Sporting competitions, Renovated in 2012

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.

•   Armenia
•   Benin
•   Bulgaria
•   Burkina Faso
•   Burundi
•   Cambodia
•   Cameroon
•   Canada
  •   New Brunswick
  •   Quebec
•   Cape Verde
•   Central African Republic
•   Chad
•   Comoros
•   Congo
•   Democratic Republic of the Congo
•   Djibouti
•   Egypt
•   France
•   French Community of Belgium
•   Gabon
•   Guinea
•   Haiti
•   Ivory Coast
•   Kosovo
•   Laos
•   Lebanon
•   Luxembourg
•   Macedonia
•   Madagascar
•   Mali
•   Mauritania
•   Mauritius
•   Monaco
•   Morocco
•   Mozambique
•   Niger
•   Qatar
•   Romania
•   Senegal
•   Seychelles
•    Switzerland
•   Togo
•   Tunisia
•   Ukraine
•   Uruguay
•   Vanuatu
•   Vietnam

Events

Sports   African wrestling (details) (12)   Athletics (details) (42)   Athletics (handicapped) (details) (5)   Basketball (details) (1)   Cycling (details) (2)   Football (soccer) (details) (1)   Judo (details) (14)   Table tennis (details) (4)   Wrestling (details) (16)

Cultural Digital creation Ecological creation Hip-hop dance Juggling Poetry Painting Photography Puppetry Sculpture Song Storytelling Traditional inspiration dance

Medal table

Final medal tally below.

  *   Host nation (Ivory Coast)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	22	16	11	49
2	Morocco	13	14	15	42
3	Canada	13	8	15	36
4	Senegal	10	9	8	27
5	Romania	8	9	14	31
6	Ivory Coast*	6	8	5	19
7	Cameroon	5	7	9	21
8	Quebec	5	7	6	18
9	Congo	5	0	0	5
10	Burkina Faso	3	4	2	9
11	Switzerland	3	2	9	14
12	Seychelles	2	0	1	3
13	Kosovo	2	0	0	2
14	Armenia	1	4	3	8
15	Mali	1	2	5	8
16	Niger	1	2	3	6
17	New Brunswick	1	2	2	5
18	Benin	1	1	3	5
	Mauritius	1	1	3	5
20	Cape Verde	1	1	0	2
21	Tunisia	1	0	6	7
22	DR Congo	1	0	2	3
	Lebanon	1	0	2	3
24	Egypt	1	0	0	1
25	French Community of Belgium	0	2	2	4
26	Chad	0	2	1	3
27	Gabon	0	2	0	2
	Guinea	0	2	0	2
29	Luxembourg	0	1	3	4
30	Madagascar	0	1	2	3
31	Central African Republic	0	0	2	2
32	Cambodia	0	0	1	1
	Djibouti	0	0	1	1
	Togo	0	0	1	1
	Vietnam	0	0	1	1
Totals (35 entries)		108	107	138	353

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

Main article: Athletics at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

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

Main article: Football at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

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".

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