Sierra Leone at the 2019 African Games

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Competitors34 (20 men and 14 women) in 9 sports
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
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Total
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Sierra Leone at the
2019 African Games
IOC codeSLE
NOCNational Olympic Committee of Sierra Leone
in Rabat, Morocco
19 August 2019 (2019-08-19) – 31 August 2019 (2019-08-31)
Competitors34 (20 men and 14 women) in 9 sports
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
African Games appearances

Sierra Leone competed at the 2019 African Games held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco.

Sierra Leone competed in several events in athletics.[1]

Julius Morie and Alpha Breezy Kamara competed in the men's 100 metres event. Neither of them qualified to compete in the semifinals.

Fatmata Awolo and Elma Sesay competed in the women's 100 metres event. Neither of them qualified to compete in the semifinals.

Maggie Barrie competed in the women's 200 metres and women's 400 metres events. In the 200 metres event she advanced to compete in the final and in the 400 metres event she reached the semifinals.

Maggie Barrie, Elma Sesay, Fatmata Awolo, Mary Thomas Tarawally competed in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event. They finished in 7th place.

Boxing

John Browne, Deedra Arvella Chestnut, Zainab Keita and Samuel Kamara represented Sierra Leone in boxing.

Chess

Sierra Leone competed in the men's blitz individual and men's rapid individual events.[2] Sierra Leone was also scheduled to compete in the mixed team event but ultimately did not compete in that event.[2]

Judo

Frederick Harris and Christian Bangura were scheduled to compete in judo but did not compete in any events.[3][4]

Karate

Victor Amara Jr (men's kata individual) and Abubakarr Kamara (men's kumite -60kg) represented Sierra Leone in karate.[5]

Swimming

Tennis

Bassie Sorie Kargbo competed in the men's singles event.[8] He won his first match against Gideon Van Dyk and in his second match he was eliminated by Aziz Dougaz.

Kargbo and Amadu Bangura also competed in the men's doubles event. They advanced to the second round where they were eliminated by Benjamin Lock and Courtney John Lock (representing Zimbabwe).

Fudia Kargbo competed in the women's singles event.[9] She competed against Barakat Quadre and she did not advance to the next match.

Volleyball

Wrestling

References

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