2005 Jeux de la Francophonie
# 2005 Jeux de la Francophonie

The 2005 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as $V^{es}$ Jeux de la Francophonie, (French for Francophone Games) were held from December 7–17, 2005 in Niamey, Niger.

## Events

### Sports

| Sport | Gender | Results |
| - | - | - |
| Athletics (Track and field) | men + women | details |
| Basketball | women | details |
| Boxing | men | details |
| Football (soccer) | men | details |
| Judo | men + women | details |
| Table tennis | men + women | details |
| Wrestling | men | demonstration of traditional West African style (details) |

### Cultural

* Fairy tale
* Painting
* Photography
* Poetry
* Sculpture
* Song
* Traditional inspiration dance

## Medal count

### Total

* Host nation (Niger)

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | France | 33 | 21 | 13 | 67 |
| 2 | Morocco | 12 | 15 | 15 | 42 |
| 3 | Egypt | 7 | 0 | 8 | 15 |
| 4 | Romania | 5 | 8 | 6 | 19 |
| 5 | Canada | 4 | 6 | 8 | 18 |
| 6 | Ivory Coast | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | Tunisia | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 |
| 8 | Benin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Burkina Faso | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| 10 | Lebanon | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | Chad | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Senegal | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 |
| 13 | Niger* | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 14 | Seychelles | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | French Community of Belgium | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 16 | Rwanda | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 17 | Madagascar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 18 | Lithuania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | Quebec | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 20 | Mauritius | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 21 | Cameroon | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 21 | Luxembourg | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 23 | Gabon | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 24 | Cape Verde | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | Mali | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | New Brunswick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 27 | Guinea-Bissau | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 28 | Congo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | DR Congo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | Macedonia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | Saint Lucia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (32 entries) | Totals (32 entries) | 83 | 81 | 105 | 269 |

## Participation

There were a total of 1287 participants from 44 states and governments at the 2005 Games.

### Key

    Nation (number of participants)

| French Community of Belgium (23)  Benin (18)  Bulgaria (4)  Burkina Faso (50)  Burundi (4)  Cambodia (3)  Cameroon (85)  Canada (82)  New Brunswick (8)  Quebec (40)  Cape Verde (3)  Central African Republic (22)  Chad (24)  Comoros (7)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (44) | Dominica  Egypt (15)  Equatorial Guinea (5)  France (131)  Gabon (18)  Guinea (37)  Guinea-Bissau (7)  Haiti (38)  Ivory Coast (43)  Lebanon (17)  Lithuania (7)  Luxembourg (7)  Macedonia (?)  Madagascar (29)  Mali (44) | Mauritius (18)  Monaco (2)  Morocco (108)  Niger (98)  Republic of the Congo (35)  Romania (50)  Rwanda (5)  Saint Lucia (3)  Senegal (69)  Seychelles (15)  Switzerland (16)  Togo (17)  Tunisia (27)  Vietnam (4) |
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