Zambia competed at the 2019 African Games held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. In total, athletes representing Zambia won one gold medal, one silver medal and three bronze medals and the country finished in 24th place in the medal table.
Medal summary Medal table
| style="text-align:left; width:78%; vertical-align:top;"| Medal Name Sport Event Date Athletics Men's 200 metres Chess Women's Rapid Individual Swimming Women's 50 m breaststroke Boxing Men's 57 kg Badminton Men's singles | style="text-align:left; width:22%; vertical-align:top;"| Medals by sportSport TotalAthletics1001Badminton0011Boxing0011Chess0101Swimming0011Total1135
Medals by dateDayDate Total621 August00111227 August01011328 August00111429 August00111530 August1001Total1135
Medals by genderGender TotalMale1023Female0112Mixed0000Total 1 1 3 5
Athletics
Eight athletes competed in athletics: Lumeka Katundu, Luchembe Kennedy, Hellen Makumba, Agness Mazala, Daniel Mbewe, Suwilanji Theresa Fotwe Mpondela, Rhodah Njobvu and Sydney Siame.
Sydney Siame won the gold medal in the men's 200 metres event.
Luchembe Kennedy competed in the men's 400 metres event. He qualified in the heats to compete in the semifinals.
Hellen Makumba competed in the women's 100 metres and women's 4 × 100 metres relay events. In the 100 metres event she qualified to compete in the semifinals.
Agness Mazala also competed in the women's 100 metres event. She did not qualify to compete in the semifinals.
Badminton
Zambia competed in badminton with four players. Kalombo Mulenga won the bronze medal in the men's singles event.
Boxing
Five athletes were scheduled to compete in boxing: Ben Banda, Mbachi Kaonga, Everisto Mulenga, Benny Sichuundu Muziyo and Nkumbu Silungwe.
Everisto Mulenga won the bronze medal in the men's featherweight (57kg) event.
Chess
Stanley Boston Chumfwa, Anndrew Kalenda Kayonde, Mwangala Linah Mululu and Makumba Lorita Mwango competed in chess.
Mwango won the silver medal in the women's rapid individual event.
Equestrian
Ariana Frances Barclay Castle, Diana Dakik, Amber Estelle Homles and Anna Bunty Howard competed in equestrian.
Castle competed in the individual jumping event and Dakik, Homles and Howard competed in both the individual jumping and team jumping events.
Football
Zambia's women's national football team was scheduled to compete in the women's tournament but withdrew and did not compete in their scheduled matches.
Handball
Zambia's national handball team competed in the men's tournament. They were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Angola.
Judo
Five athletes represented Zambia in judo: Andrew Sande Kaswanga, Steven Mung'andu, Mathew Mwango, Taonga Soko and Simon Zulu.
AthleteEventRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechage 1Final / OppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankAndrew Sande KaswangaMen's -81 kgLDid not advanceMathew MwangoMen's -73 kgLDid not advanceTaonga SokoWomen's -57 kgWLDid not advanceLDid not advanceSimon ZuluMen's -60 kgLLDid not advance
Swimming
Four athletes represented Zambia in swimming:
Men AthleteEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankRalph Goveia50 m freestyle24.1715Did not advance50 m breaststroke29.2610Did not advance50 m butterfly24.797 Q24.908100 m butterfly55.107 Q55.508Kumaren Naidu50 m freestyle26.4534Did not advance50 m breaststroke30.6117Did not advance100 m breaststroke1:10.6916Did not advance50 m butterfly27.7526Did not advance
Women AthleteEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankLombe Mwape50 m freestyle30.0326Did not advance100 m freestyle1:05.9917Did not advance50 m backstroke36.2918Did not advanceTilka Paljk50 m freestyle27.3610 QR27.39750 m breaststroke32.671 Q32.92100 m breaststroke1:15.715 Q1:13.784
Mixed AthleteEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankKumaren NaiduTilka PaljkRalph GoveiaLombe Mwape4×100 m medley relay4:27.7810Did not advance
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