Luanda - Angola occupied second place in the Region 5 Games, which ended Sunday in Lilongwe, Malawi, with 45 medals, including 18 gold, 14 silver and 13 bronze.
This record is the result of the national teams efforts for conventional athletics, adapted athletics, basketball (men and women), basketball 3x3 (men and women) and gymnastics as well as judo, taekwondo and tennis, which led Angola to an improvement of one place in the final classification, compared to the third place obtained in Maseru, Lesotho, held in 2021.
Angola managed an average of 3.75% for each of the sports 12 disciplines at the event, which was won by South Africa, with 114 medals, including 62 gold, 30 silver and 22 bronze.
Among the disciplines, the Judo team was the most productive with 18 medals, including nine gold, five silver and four bronze, followed by basketball with four gold, Taekwondo with three gold and two silver.
Adapted athletics was the fourth most highly rated, with two gold, equal number of silver and one bronze, making five, swimming comes fifth with three silver and four bronze.
Gymnastics obtained sixth place in the national ranking, with two silver and two bronze, making a total of four. The conventional athletics is seventh on the list, obtaining two bronze.
The removal of football, for alleged forgery of age of one of the 15 summoned athletes was the negative note, although the medical staff of the squad is appealing to the organization and other international institutions to restore the true facts.
Here is the final medals table:
1st South Africa: 62 (gold) - 30 (silver) - 22 (bronze)
2nd Angola: 18 (gold) - 14 (silver) - 13 (bronze)
3rd Zambia: 17 (gold) - 25 (silver) - 20 (bronze)
4th Zimbabwe: 12 (gold) - 24 (silver) - (48 bronze)
5th Botswana: 12 (gold) - 22 (silver) - 13 (bronze)
6th Malawi: 8 (gold) - 7 (silver) - 26 (bronze)
7th Lesotho: 8 (gold) - 7 (silver) - 1 (bronze)
8th Namibia: 7 (gold) - 12 (silver) - 20 (bronze)
9th Eswatini: 5 (gold)
10th Mozambique: 4 (gold) - 2 (silver) - 11 (bronze)
