1999 Johannesburg All-Africa Games

1999 Johannesburg All-Africa Games
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No Title	Johannesburg, South Africa
Team Gold Medalist	South Africa Caroline Demetriou Hanli Borcherds Kerry Joyce Tamaryn Schultz Tammy le Roux
All-Around Gold Medalist	Dalal Rateb (EGY)
Vault Gold Medalist	Dalal Rateb (EGY)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Tamaryn Schultz (RSA)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Hanli Borcherds (RSA)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Dalal Rateb (EGY)
Preceded by	1995 Harare All-Africa Games
Succeeded by	2003 Abuja All-Africa Games

The 1999 All-Africa Games were held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 10 September to 19 September 1999. The South Africans hosted about 25,000 visitors including 6,000 athletes and 3,000 officials from throughout the continent. The Opening Ceremonies, with dancing, African parables and Zulu warriors, was staged in an arena with less than 15 000 spectators.

South Africa, which had lost to Greece for a bid for the 2004 Olympic Games was hoping to impress FIFA in hopes of landing the 2006 World Cup. It eventually got the 2010 edition. Overall the games were a success, with hosts South Africa outdistancing Nigeria and Egypt in the medals race.

Typical problems at the games included 600 children contracting food poisoning after being fed boxed lunches at the practice session for the Opening Ceremonies, striking laborers demonstrating outside games venues, displaying placards which read "No Wages, No All Africa Games." Women's field hockey was demoted to a non-medal event after the Nigerian team dropped out of the tournament. A melee at the finish of the basketball game between Angola and Egypt forced police to escort the Egyptian team from the court. Haile Gebrselassie, the world record holder in the 5,000 and 10,000 meter runs opted out of the games for health reasons, depriving the games organizers of one of the biggest drawing cards of the games.

Despite the difficulties IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, praised South Africa's organization of the Games, saying "this shows that you can organize big events."

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	South Africa	Egypt	Namibia
All-Around	Dalal Rateb Egypt (EGY)	Tamaryn Schultz South Africa (RSA)	Hanli Borcherds South Africa (RSA)
Vault	Dalal Rateb Egypt (EGY)	Tamaryn Schultz South Africa (RSA)	Farrah El-Gueretly Egypt (EGY)
Uneven Bars	Tamaryn Schultz South Africa (RSA)	Dalal Rateb Egypt (EGY)	Hanli Borcherds South Africa (RSA)
Balance Beam	Hanli Borcherds South Africa (RSA)	Farrah El-Gueretly Egypt (EGY)	Tamaryn Schultz South Africa (RSA)
Floor Exercise	Dalal Rateb Egypt (EGY)	Tamaryn Schultz South Africa (RSA)	Caroline Demetriou South Africa (RSA)

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	South Africa	3	3	4	10
2	Egypt	3	3	1	7
3	Namibia	0	0	1	1