1997 African Judo Championships

Host City	Casablanca
Country	MAR
Held	17 – 19 July 1997
Competitors	55
Countries	12

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Algeria	ALG	6	3	1	10
2	Morocco	MAR	4	1	4	9
3	South Africa	RSA	2	1	4	7
4	Cameroon	CMR	1	2	4	7
5	Senegal	SEN	1	2	1	4
6	Egypt	EGY	1	1	2	4
7	Gabon	GAB	1	0	0	1
8	Tunisia	TUN	0	3	4	7
9	Mauritius	MRI	0	1	4	5
10	Ivory Coast	CIV	0	1	2	3
=	Madagascar	MAD	0	1	2	3
12	Nigeria	NGR	0	0	3	3

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men	Abdel Ouahed Idrissi Chorfi	MAR	Sami Mekni	TUN	Laval Collett Omar Rebahi	MRI ALG
-65 kg, Men	Amar Meridja	ALG	Abdoul Karim Seck	SEN	Makram Neili Duncan MacKinnon	TUN RSA
-71 kg, Men	Noureddine Yagoubi	ALG	Eddy André	MRI	Zaoui Abdellatif David Kouassi	MAR CIV
-78 kg, Men	Adil Bel Gaid	MAR	Tolba Ridha	EGY	Amady Mbaré Diop	SEN
-86 kg, Men	Ashraf Bahgat	EGY	Yassine Silimi	ALG	Jean-Claude Raphaël Charles Etame	MRI CMR
+95 kg, Men	Kamel Larbi	ALG	Abdellaoui Abdellaziz	MAR	Claude Ebode Tsanga Ahmed Ettaib	CMR EGY
-95 kg, Men	Serge Biwole Abolo	CMR	Belkacem Hirech	ALG	Mourad Zaghouan Antonio Félicité	TUN MRI
Open, Men	Kamel Larbi	ALG	Mourad Zaghouan	TUN	Serge Biwole Abolo Ahmed Ettaib	CMR EGY
-48 kg, Women	Khadija El-Hamdaoui	MAR	Soleil Rasoafaniry	MAD	Lovelyn Orji-Ben Tania Tallie	NGR RSA
-52 kg, Women	Salima Souakri	ALG	Liezl Downing	RSA	Louise Stephanie Zeh Naina Cecilia Ravaoarisoa	CMR MAD
-56 kg, Women	Lynda Mekzine	ALG	Augustine Ndzouli Ndoumbe	CMR	Melanie Seidler Maryann Ekeada	RSA NGR
-61 kg, Women	Henriëtte Möller	RSA	Oukid Ourida	ALG	Bilkisu Yusuf Souad Benabdellah	NGR MAR
-66 kg, Women	Sally Buckton	RSA	Lea Zahoui Blavo	CIV	Hanitra Razanamalala Saida Dhahri	MAD TUN
-72 kg, Women	Paul Kibikai	GAB	Donna Ngo Batang	CMR	Michèle St. Louis Fatima El-Miftah	MRI MAR
+72 kg, Women	Samira Chhab	MAR	Adja Marieme Diop	SEN	Marguerite Goualou Yao Sonia Ghorbel	CIV TUN
Open, Women	Adja Marieme Diop	SEN	Sonia Ghorbel	TUN	Samira Chhab Sally Buckton	MAR RSA