Jeux de la Francophonie

The Jeux de la Francophonie (Canadian English: Francophonie Games; British English: Francophone Games) are a combination of artistic and sporting events for the Francophonie, mostly French-speaking nations, held every four years since 1989.

Jeux de la Francophonie
Logo of the Games
Status	active
Genre	sports event
Frequency	every 4th year
Location(s)	various
Inaugurated	1989

Editions

Year	Edition	Opened by	Date	Host city	No. of Athletes (nations)
1989	I	Hassan II	8–22 July	Casablanca & Rabat, Morocco	1,700 (39)
1994	II	François Mitterrand	5–13 July	Paris, Évry & Bondoufle, France	2,700 (45)
1997	III	Didier Ratsiraka	27 August – 6 September	Antananarivo, Madagascar	2,300 (38)
2001	IV	Adrienne Clarkson	14–24 July	/ Ottawa-Gatineau, Canada/Quebec	2,400 (51)
2005	V	Mamadou Tandja	7–17 December	Niamey, Niger	2,500 (44)
2009	VI	Michel Suleiman	27 September – 6 October	Beirut, Lebanon	2,500 (40)
2013	VII	François Hollande	6–15 September	Nice, France	2,700 (54)
2017	VIII	Alassane Ouattara	21–30 July	Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire	4,000 (49)
2022	IX		19–28 August	Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Events

Sports

There were four sports at the inaugural event in 1989: athletics, basketball, association football and judo. Handisport, handball, table tennis and wrestling were added to the competition programme in 1994. None of these four sports featured at the 1997 Jeux de la Francophonie, and boxing and tennis were introduced to the programme instead. Eight sports featured in 2001: the four inaugural sports, boxing and table tennis were included. Furthermore, handisport and beach volleyball competitions were held as demonstration events. Neither of these demonstration sports were included in 2005, with traditional style wrestling being demonstrated in addition to the six more established sports. The 2009 programme re-introduced beach volleyball.

• Athletics () : 1989, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017
• Basketball () : 1989, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017
• Beach volleyball () : 2001, 2009
• Boxing () : 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013
• Cycling () : 2013
• Road cycling (demonstration) () : 2017
• Disabled sports () : 2001, 2009, 2017
• Football () : 1989, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017
• Handball () : 1994
• Judo () : 1989, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017
• Table tennis () : 1994, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017
• Tennis () : 1997
• Wrestling () : 1994, 2013, 2017
• Traditional African wrestling () : 2005 (demonstration), 2013, 2017

Cultural

The Jeux de la Francophonie are distinctive, if not unique, among international multi-sport competitions for including competitive cultural performances and exhibitions, complete with gold, silver, and bronze medals for winning participants.

• Song ()
• Storytelling ()
• Traditional inspiration dance ()
• Poetry ()
• Painting ()
• Photography ()
• Sculpture ()

In 2001, street art featured as a demonstration event.

Medal Table

An all-time Jeux de la Francophonie Medal Table from 1989 Jeux de la Francophonie to 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie, is tabulated below. The table is simply the consequence of the sum of the medal tables of the various editions of the Jeux de la Francophonie.[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	212	158	129	499
2	Canada	87	85	123	295
3	Morocco	65	83	69	217
4	Romania	64	43	46	153
5	Senegal	25	32	40	97
6	Canada Quebec	21	26	48	95
7	Ivory Coast	20	24	22	66
8	Poland	20	8	20	48
9	Madagascar	19	14	25	58
10	Egypt	18	16	21	55
11	Tunisia	16	31	40	87
12	Cameroon	13	23	42	78
13	French Community of Belgium	13	16	29	58
14	Mauritius	9	16	23	48
15	Congo	9	7	8	24
16	Switzerland	9	6	24	39
17	Chad	9	4	5	18
18	Lebanon	8	7	4	19
19	Burkina Faso	8	6	18	32
20	Seychelles	6	3	3	12
21	Rwanda	5	3	5	13
22	Niger	4	10	8	22
23	Armenia	4	5	6	15
24	Benin	3	3	5	11
25	Burundi	3	3	3	9
26	Gabon	2	8	13	23
27	Canada New Brunswick	2	5	13	20
28	Cape Verde	2	2	2	6
29	Djibouti	2	1	4	7
30	Haiti	2	1	2	5
31	Guinea	2	1	0	3
32	Togo	2	0	2	4
33	Kosovo	2	0	0	2
34	Mali	1	5	8	14
35	Lithuania	1	5	6	12
36	Vietnam	1	4	3	8
37	Central African Republic	1	3	5	9
38	Qatar	1	1	6	8
39	Bulgaria	1	0	3	4
40	DR Congo	1	0	2	3
41	North Macedonia	1	0	0	1
42	Luxembourg	0	5	13	18
43	Montenegro	0	1	1	2
44	Dominica	0	1	0	1
	Guinea-Bissau	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
47	Cambodia	0	0	6	6
48	Saint Lucia	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
Totals (49 nations)		694	677	857	2228

Participation

Jeux de la Francophonie are open to athletes and artists of the 55 member nations, 3 associate member nations and 12 observer nations of the Francophonie. Canada is represented by three teams: Quebec, New Brunswick (the only officially bilingual Canadian province) and another team representing the rest of the country. The Belgian team is restricted to athletes from the French-speaking areas of the country.

Participation has so far varied between 1,700 and 4,000 athletes and artists in the past 20 years.

56 member nations or governments

Albania  Armenia  Belgium French Community of Belgium  Benin  Bulgaria  Burkina Faso  Burundi  Cambodia  Cameroon  Canada  Quebec  New Brunswick  Cape Verde  Central African Republic  Chad  Comoros  Democratic Republic of the Congo  Republic of the Congo  Côte d'Ivoire

Czech Republic  Djibouti  Dominica  Egypt  Equatorial Guinea  France  Gabon  Greece  Guinea  Guinea-Bissau  Haiti  Laos  Lebanon  Lithuania  Luxembourg  North Macedonia  Madagascar  Mali  Mauritania

Mauritius  Moldova  Monaco  Morocco  Niger  Poland Puducherry  Romania  Rwanda  Saint Lucia  São Tomé and Príncipe  Senegal  Seychelles  Slovakia  Slovenia   Switzerland  Togo  Tunisia  Vanuatu  Vietnam

3 associate member nations

Cyprus

Ghana

Qatar

Observer territories, nations, and provinces

Austria  Canada  Ontario  Colombia  Croatia  Czech Republic Georgia  Hungary

Ireland  Kosovo  Lithuania  USA  Louisiana  Montenegro  Mozambique  New Caledonia  Poland  Serbia

Slovakia  Slovenia  Uruguay

See also

• Commonwealth Games
• Lusophony Games
• Mediterranean Games

References

1. "Jeux de la Francophonie". jeux.francophonie.org. Retrieved 24 June 2017.

External links

• Official site of the Comité international des jeux de la Francophonie (in French)