2016 African Wrestling Championships

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2016 African Championship
Host city	Alexandria, Egypt
Dates	2–7 March
Champions
Freestyle	Egypt
Greco-Roman	Egypt
Women	Egypt &  Nigeria
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The 2016 African Wrestling Championships was held in Alexandria, Egypt from 2 to 7 March 2016.^[1]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt (EGY)	9	6	7	22
2	Tunisia (TUN)	5	5	3	13
3	Nigeria (NGR)	4	3	3	10
4	Algeria (ALG)	2	5	8	15
5	Senegal (SEN)	2	0	0	2
6	Cameroon (CMR)	1	1	3	5
7	Guinea-Bissau (GBS)	1	0	2	3
8	South Africa (RSA)	0	2	6	8
9	Morocco (MAR)	0	2	3	5
10	Namibia (NAM)	0	0	2	2
11	Chad (CHA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		24	24	38	86

Team ranking[]

Rank	Men's freestyle		Women's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Egypt	71	Egypt	63	Egypt	77
2	Algeria	49	Nigeria	63	Algeria	63
3	Tunisia	44	Tunisia	54	Morocco	62
4	South Africa	42	Cameroon	46	Tunisia	39
5	Morocco	41	Algeria	43	South Africa	32
6	Senegal	36	South Africa	35	Namibia	8
7	Guinea-Bissau	35	Senegal	35	Nigeria	7
8	Nigeria	35	Chad	10
9	Chad	27	Ivory Coast	6
10	Namibia	14	Madagascar	4
11	Cameroon	8
12	Republic of the Congo	7
13	Ivory Coast	6
14	Madagascar	6

Medal summary[]

Men's freestyle[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg	Adama Diatta	Ebikewenimo Welson
61 kg
			Sem Shilimela
65 kg	Amas Daniel		Mbunde Cumba
70 kg	Maher Ghanmi
74 kg	Augusto Midana	Samy Moustafa	Melvin Bibo
86 kg	Mohamed Saadaoui	Mohamed Zaghloul
97 kg		Martin Erasmus
			Soso Tamarau
125 kg	Diaaeldin Kamal

Men's Greco-Roman[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
59 kg			Fouad Fajari
66 kg	Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed	Tarek Benaissa	Souleymen Nasr
71 kg
75 kg	Mahmoud Fawzy
80 kg	Bachir Sid Azara
85 kg	Adem Boudjemline	Mohamed Missaoui	Mohamed Metwally
98 kg	Ahmed Othman	Hamza Haloui	Choucri Atafi
130 kg	Abdellatif Mohamed	Radhouane Chebbi

Women's freestyle[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Rebecca Muambo
53 kg	Isabelle Sambou		Maroi Mezien
55 kg	Odunayo Adekuoroye
			Joseph Essombe
58 kg	Marwa Amri
60 kg	Hela Riabi
			Haiat Farag
63 kg	Aminat Adeniyi
69 kg	Blessing Oborududu
75 kg	Samar Amer	Annabelle Ali	Blessing Onyebuchi

References[]