25 sport disciplines confirmed …for 13th African Games

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 13th African Games (LOC) has announced the various sporting disciplines to participate in the August 2023 event.

This occurred after Heads of federations were required to justify why their disciplines should be included in the Pan-African Games.

The list of 25 disciplines was announced during the closing session of the First Joint Technical Meeting with the LOC, the TCAG, and the AUSC which was held at the Alisa Hotel in Accra on Friday.

At the end of the session, Dr Mrs Beatrice Dwumfour Williams, a member of the LOC, announced the list of sporting disciplines to participate in the Games.

The list include athletics, arm wrestling, badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, chess, cricket (conditional), cycling and fencing.

Others are field hockey, football, handball, judo, karate-do, netball, rugby, squash, swimming, table-tennis, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting and teqball.