Cape Verde at the 2019 African Games

Cape Verde competed at the 2019 African Games held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. In total, athletes representing the country won one bronze medal and the country finished last in the medal table, in 41st place, shared with Central African Republic.

Cape Verde at the
2019 African Games
IOC codeCPV
NOCComité Olímpico Caboverdeano [es]
in Rabat, Morocco
19 August 2019 (2019-08-19) – 31 August 2019 (2019-08-31)
Competitors38 (28 men and 10 women) in 7 sports
Medals
Ranked 41st
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
1
Total
1
African Games appearances

Medal summary

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Medal table

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Athletics

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Five athletes represented Cape Verde in athletics.[1]

Eveline Sanches competed in both the women's 100 metres and the women's 200 metres events.[2] In both events she did not advance to the semifinals.[2]

Carla Mendes competed in the women's 800 metres event.[3] She was also scheduled to compete in the women's 1500 metres event but she did not start.[3]

Jordin Andrade competed in the men's 400 metres hurdles. He did not advance to compete in the final.

Samuel Freire competed in the men's 5000 metres event. He finished in 19th place. He also competed in the men's 10,000 metres. He did not finish in that event.

Ruben Sança competed in the men's half marathon and he finished in 16th place.

Beach volleyball

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Cape Verde was scheduled to compete in beach volleyball but did not compete.

Boxing

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Albertino Miguel Monteiro, Davilson Morais, Ivanusa Moreira, Sergio Antonio Rodrigues, Gelson Rodnex Semedo, Wilson Carlos Semedo and Carlos Antonio Silva were scheduled to compete in boxing.

Ivanusa Moreira won the bronze medal in the women's welterweight (69kg) event.[4]

Chess

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Loedi Gomes, Luis Carlos Moniz, Honorina Morais and Joel David Pires competed in chess.

Luis Carlos Moniz and Joel David Pires both competed in the men's blitz individual and men's rapid individual events.

Loedi Gomes and Honorina Morais both competed in the women's blitz individual and women's rapid individual events.

All four competed in the mixed team event where they finished in last place.[5]

Karate

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Danisia Emely Conceicao, Jose Mario Goncalves, Irlanda Lopes and Jelson Varela competed in karate.

Taekwondo

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Four athletes competed in Taekwondo.[6][7][8][9]

Athlete Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Nicalas Antonio Fernandes Men's –63 kg   Nhial (SSD)
W 44–8
  Dlamini (SWZ)
W 17–12
  Demisu (ETH)
L 2–17
did not advance
Mbaye Massalick Men's –68 kg   Ochieng (KEN)
L 15–35
did not advance
Vania Etsara Timas Women's –49 kg   Sawadogo (KEN)
DSQ
did not advance
Sanderson Vicente Women's –58 kg Bye   Maziya (SWZ)
W 11–8
  Lakehal (MAR)
L 4–40
did not advance

Volleyball

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Cape Verde's national volleyball team qualified to compete at the 2019 African Games.[10] They lost all five games in the men's tournament.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "2019 African Games – Athletics – Results Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Eveline Nair Sanches - Athlete Profile". 2019 African Games. Archived from the original on 30 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Carla Patricia Mendes - Athlete Profile". 2019 African Games. Archived from the original on 30 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Boxing Results Book" (PDF). 2019 African Games. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 August 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Mixed Team Event - Chess". 2019 African Games. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Nicalas Antonio Fernandes - Athlete Profile". 2019 African Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  7. ^ "Mbaye Massalick - Athlete Profile". 2019 African Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Vania Etsara Timas - Athlete Profile". 2019 African Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  9. ^ "Sanderson Vicente - Athlete Profile". 2019 African Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  10. ^ "Cape Verde win Zone 2 to qualify to African Games". Confédération Africaine de Volleyball. 30 June 2019. Archived from the original on 28 July 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Volleyball - Summary - Men's Event". 2019 African Games. Archived from the original on 2 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.