African Weightlifting Championships

The African Weightlifting Championships is an event organised by Weightlifting Federation of Africa (WFA).^[1]

African Weightlifting Championships
Status	Active
Genre	Sports Event
Date(s)	Usually April
Frequency	Annual
Location(s)	Various
Inaugurated	1979
Organised by	WFA

Weights

Athletes compete in a total of 20 weight categories (10 for men and 10 for women) since 2019:

Weights	45 kg	49 kg	55 kg	59 kg	61 kg	64 kg	67 kg	71 kg	73 kg	76 kg	81 kg	87 kg	+87 kg	89 kg	96 kg	102 kg	109 kg	+109 kg
Men categories			x		x		x		x		x			x	x	x	x	x
Women categories	x	x	x	x		x		x		x	x	x	x

Editions

Year	Edition		Venue	Events	Results
	M	W
1979	1		Cairo, Egypt	30
1985	2		Aswan, Egypt	30	[2]
1986	3		Nairobi, Kenya	30	[2]
1988	4		Cairo, Egypt	30	[2]
1989	5		Boufarik, Algeria	30
1990	6		Tripoli, Libya	30
1992	7		Nairobi, Kenya	30	[2]
1993	8		Cairo, Egypt	30	[2]
1994	9		Cape Town, South Africa	30	[2]
1996	10		Ismailia, Egypt	30	[2]
1997	11		Cairo, Egypt	30	[2]
1998	12	1	Algiers, Algeria	45	[3]
2000	13	2	Yaoundé, Cameroon	45	[4]
2001	14	3	Stellenbosch, South Africa	45	[5]
2002	15	4	Nairobi, Kenya	45	[6]
2004	16	5	Tunis, Tunisia	45	[7]
2005	17	6	Kampala, Uganda	45	[8]
2006	18	7	El Jadida, Morocco	45	[9]
2008	19	8	Strand, South Africa	45	[10]
2009	20	9	Kampala, Uganda	45	[11]
2010	21	10	Yaoundé, Cameroon	45	[12]
2011	22	11	Cape Town, South Africa	45	[13]
2012	23	12	Nairobi, Kenya	45	[14]
2013	24	13	Casablanca, Morocco	45	[15]
2015	25	14	Brazzaville, Congo	45	[16]
2016	26	15	Yaoundé, Cameroon	45	[17]
2017	27	16	Vacoas, Mauritius	48	[18]
2018	28	17	Mahébourg, Mauritius	48	[19]
2019	29	18	Cairo, Egypt	60	[20]
2020	30	19	Vacoas, Mauritius	60
2021	31	20	Nairobi, Kenya	60
2022	32	21	Cairo, Egypt	60
2023	33	22	Tunis, Tunisia	60
2024	34	23	Ismailia, Egypt	60

•     Held jointly with the 2011 Commonwealth Championship.
•     Held as part of the 2015 African Games.
•     Was cancelled because of COVID-19 pandemic.

Medals (2008-2023) (incomplete)

Ranking by Big (Total result) medals.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Tunisia	140	103	70	313
2	Egypt	108	39	24	171
3	Nigeria	81	47	16	144
4	Algeria	67	93	69	229
5	Cameroon	45	47	47	139
6	South Africa	24	35	48	107
7	Madagascar	20	19	14	53
8	Libya	17	32	28	77
9	Seychelles	16	25	25	66
10	Morocco	10	25	49	84
11	Mauritius	8	25	22	55
12	Uganda	4	10	9	23
13	Kenya	0	9	7	16
14	Ghana	0	5	19	24
15	Zambia	0	3	0	3
16	DR Congo	0	2	2	4
17	Botswana	0	0	2	2
18	Rwanda	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		540	519	452	1,511

African Junior Weightlifting Championships

Since 1995.

African Youth Weightlifting Championships

Year	Edition		Venue
	M	W
2009	1	1	Kampala, Uganda
2010	2	2	Cairo, Egypt
2011	3	3
2012	4	4	Tunis, Tunisia
2013	5	5	Casablanca, Morocco
2014	6	6	Tunis, Tunisia
2015	7	7	Entebbe, Uganda
2016	8	8	Cairo, Egypt
2017	9	9	Entebbe, Uganda
2018	10	10	Cairo, Egypt
2019	11	11	Kampala, Uganda
Sources:[21][22]

African Clubs Weightlifting Championships

Since 2022.

See also

• Weightlifting at the 2007 All-Africa Games
• Weightlifting at the 2015 African Games
• Weightlifting at the 2019 African Games