The three-day Judo event at the ninth All-Africa Games ended on Saturday afternoon after host Algeria took home three out of four golds in the day, which made it the biggest winner in the Games with eight golds.
In Saturday's competition, Algerian Judoka Meriem Mousa threw her rival, Sandrine Ilendou Mboumba of Gabon, for ippon in the final of the women's open class.
In the men's under 60-kg class final, another Algerian Judoka Omar Rebahi pinned his Egyptian fighter Atef Ali with an ippon and a Koka.
Algeria's third gold medal came from the men's open class. Mohamed Bouaichaoui, a silver medalist at the 2005 world championships, defeated Dieguy Bathily Diegy of Senegal with an ippon.
The only gold medal fell out of Algeria's reach was the women's open class. Tunisian fighter Nihal Chikhrouhou overwhelmed her viral, Christelle Okodombe Foguing of Cameroon, with a Koka, a Wazaali and then an ippon.
With the three golds on Saturday and five golds in the previous two days, Algeria swept the Judo event of the All-Africa Games, which generated a total of 16 gold medals.
The second on the gold medal table was Tunisia, a traditional African power in Judo. It went home with four golds. Egypt ranked third with two.
Despite the eight golds, the Algerian team seemed to be not satisfied as a team member was quoted by local media as saying that it had expected more than eight golds from the Games.
Judo, along with track and field athletics and boxing, has been listed by the Algetian delegation as a major source of gold medals at the ongoing All-Africa Games.
Algeria has said it would try to collect 78 gold medals in the Games, which would certainly help the country gain the top place in the medal table for the first time since 1965 when the first All-Africa Games was held in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo.
Source: Xinhua
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