2024 Olympic Medals Table: Kenya Leads 12 Other Africa Nations

2024 Olympics Medals Table: Kenya Leads 12 Other Africa Nations 

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Only 12 African countries made it to the 2024 Olympics medal table.

Kenya led the continent after amassing four gold, two silver and five bronze – a total of 11 to finish in 17th place.

Other African countries that made the medal table include Algeria, joint 39th with two gold and one bronze for a total of three.

The others are South Africa in joint 44th with a total of six medals (1 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze), and Ethiopia in 47th with a total of four (1 gold, 3 silver).

Egypt and Tunisia were joint 52nd with a total of three medals each, comprising one gold, one silver and one bronze medal.

Botswana and Uganda were also joint 55th with two medals each, made up of one gold and one silver.

Morocco were placed 60th with one gold and one bronze for a total of two, while Côte d’Ivoire were in 84th place alongside Cape Verde and Zambia with one bronze each.

Nigeria failed to make the medal table at the Games, which had 205 participating countries.

Meanwhile, USA emerged as the overall winner of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris after Sunday’s event, but it was just by the skin of their teeth.

The US women’s basketball team helped to seal their country’s dominance by edging hosts France 67-66 and secure their eighth consecutive title to win the final gold medal of the Games.

The Americans topped the medal table by winning 40 gold medals, 44 silver and 42 bronze totalling 126 medals.

China also won 40 golds but managed only 27 silvers and 24 bronze medals to finish second with a total of 91 medals.

Japan finished third with 20 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze for a total of 45, while Australia were in fourth place with 18 gold, 19 silver and 16 bronze for a total of 53.

Hosts France are fifth with 16 gold, 26 silver and 22 bronze for a total of 64.

The next edition of the Olympics is slated for Los Angeles, USA in 2028.