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Basketball at the 2014 African Youth Games

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Basketball at the 2014 African Youth Games
Start date24 May
End date30 May
VenueBotswana National Youth Centre (BNYC)
EventsBasketball
2010

2014 African Youth Games in Gaborone was held between 28 and 31 May at the Botswana National Stadium. The competition served as the qualification for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics which took place in August in Nanjing, China.[1][2]

Format

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The boys' and girls' tournament will adopt a round robin group stage and a single-elimination medal round, where the 10 participating teams are split into 2 pools of 10. Each team will play once against the other teams in its pool, and the top 8 teams from each pool will qualify for the knock-out stages.

Boys

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Pool A Pool B
 Botswana  Angola
 Kenya  Uganda
 Morocco  South Sudan
 Tunisia  Egypt
 Democratic Republic of the Congo  Algeria

Girls

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Note: Guam entered a girls' basketball team into Group B of the competition; there was no Guam boys' team at the tournament

Pool A Pool B
 Angola  Nigeria
 Botswana  Mali
 Zimbabwe  Rwanda
 Mauritius  Algeria
 Egypt  Mozambique

Medal summary

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Botswana)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Egypt (EGY)1102
2 Angola (ANG)1001
3 Mali (MLI)0101
4 Algeria (ALG)0011
 Democratic Republic of the Congo (COD)0011
Totals (5 entries)2226

Results

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Boys' tournament
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 Angola  Egypt  Democratic Republic of the Congo
Girls' tournament
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 Egypt  Mali  Algeria

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-27. Retrieved 2020-02-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Basketball | Gaborone 2014". Archived from the original on 2014-07-30. Retrieved 2020-02-11.