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22.03.2006
Commonwealth Games: Seven African Countries on Medal Table
Cameroon occupies the 21st position with one silver and two bronze medals.
The 18th Commonwealth Games enters the seventh day today. At press time yesterday, eight of the 18 African member States of the Commonwealth had registering their names on the medals table. South Africa, which leads the Africa pack, is 5th overall with 27 medals - nine gold, four silver and 10 bronze.
Nigeria follows on the ninth position with seven medals - two gold, three silver and two bronze, followed by Kenya, 9th with two gold, three silver, one bronze. Ghana and Tanzania are 13th with one gold each. Cameroon is 21st overall with no gold, one silver and two bronze medals. If we had to rank the nations by their total number of medals and not the quality of the medals, Cameroon would occupy the 14th position. Seychelles is at the bottom on the 29-nation medals table with one bronze medal.
Host Australia is topping the chart with 141 medals - 53 gold, 47 silver and 41 bronze followed by England with 66 medals - 21 gold, 25 silver and 20 bronze. India is third with 27 medals - 14 gold, nine silver and four bronze.
More than 4,000 athletes from seventy Commonwealth countries and territories are taking part in the 15-26 March sporting fiesta also know as "Friendship Games," which started in 1930. The Commonwealth led by the British Queen Elizabeth II, who opened the Melbourne Games, groups 53 countries which share colonial history with Britain.
But Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony is a member of the organisation from which Zimbabwe pulled out in 2003 after its suspension from the fold over democracy and human rights disagreements, was extended indefinitely.
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