Africa Qualified about 991 Athletes across the various sports not limited to Athletics, Boxing, Cycling, Fencing, Football, Gymnastics, Rugby, Swimming, Taekwando, Tennis, Wrestling, and Weightlifting.
Africa managed to win a total of 35 medals from 12 NOCs with Kenya topping the African Medal Table with a total of 11 medals and acquiring position 17 in the overall medal rankings. Africa bagged home 13 Gold Medals, 12 Silver Medals and 14 Bronze Medals.
Some of the notable performances by Africa includes the;
- Sterling performance by Letsile Tebogo of Botswana who won Africa’s first Gold medal in 200m and an African Record.
- The Youngest ever Olympic 800m Champion of Kenya Emmanuel Wanyonyi
- Marathon Gold medal by the Tamirat Tola of Kenya
- The 1500m Gold medal and the Olympic Record by Faith Kipyegon
- Beatrice Chebet made history by being a double Gold medallist in 500m and 10 000m.
- Men’s Basketball SSD team managed to reach the Quarter-Finals for their very first participation in the Olympics and the Nigerian Women’s team was also the first African team to ever reach the Quarter finals.
