African Francophone Games for the Handicapped
The African Francophone Games for the Handicapped is a multi-sport event for disabled athletes. The Games are better known under their French title, Jeux de l'Avenir des personnes handicapées d'Afrique francophone, with the acronym JAPHAF. The games were originally held in 1994, then every two years. The games do not appear to he held anymore, the last record of an event was in Niger in 2009.
The games were open to several categories of handicap: physical, visual, mental, and those with hearing difficulties. Sports on the program include archery, African traditional wrestling, basketball, handball, table-tennis, wheelchair races, weightlifting, and volleyball.
Eligible African nations were Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo Brazzaville, Congo RDC, Gabon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Central African Republic, Senegal and Togo. Belgians, Swiss, and French athletes wereinvited to participate on several occasions.
Jeux de l'Avenir des personnes handicapées d'Afrique francophone
1994 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
1996 Cotonou, Benin
1998 Dakar, Senegal
2000 Abidjan, Ivory Coast
2001 Lomé, Togo
2003 Dakar, Senegal
2005 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
2007
Nouakchott, Mauritania
2008 Yaounde, Cameroon
2009 Niamey, Niger
Related Pages
- Complete List of Multi-Sport Events from around the world
- Other Discontinued multi-sport events
- About International Multi-Events
- world sports calendar
- Multi-Sport Events (Games) Calendar
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