Handball at the 2007 African Games – Women's tournament
# Handball at the 2007 African Games – Women's tournament

The 2007 edition of the Women's Handball Tournament of the African Games was the 7th, organized by the African Handball Confederation and played under the auspices of the International Handball Federation, the handball sport governing body. The tournament ran from July 14−21 2007 in Algiers, Algeria, contested by 8 national teams and won by Angola.

## Draw

| Group A | Group B |
| - | - |
| Algeria  Angola  Ivory Coast  Tunisia | Cameroon  Congo  Kenya  Nigeria |

## Preliminary round

### Group A

| 14 Jul 2007 |||||
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 16:00 | Angola | 30 (15:16) 29 | Tunisia |
| 16:00 | Ivory Coast | 28 (13:11) 23 | Algeria |
| 15 Jul 2007 |||||
| 16:00 | Ivory Coast | 18 (08:09) 14 | Tunisia |
| 16:00 | Angola | 28 (12:07) 18 | Algeria |
| 17 Jul 2007 |||||
| 16:00 | Angola | 36 (15:12) 31 | Ivory Coast |
| 16:00 | Tunisia | 23 (08:10) 22 | Algeria |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| Angola | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 78 | +16 | 6 | Advance to semi-finals |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 77 | 73 | +4 | 4 | Advance to semi-finals |
| Tunisia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 66 | 70 | −4 | 2 | Relegated to 5th place classification |
| Algeria | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 63 | 79 | −16 | 0 | Relegated to 7th place classification |

### Group B

| 14 Jul 2007 |||||
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 14:00 | Congo | 29 (12:12) 23 | Nigeria |
| 16:00 | Cameroon | 39 (14:08) 24 | Kenya |
| 15 Jul 2007 |||||
| 16:00 | Congo | 34 (19:10) 21 | Cameroon |
| 18:00 | Nigeria | 35 (12:04) 11 | Kenya |
| 17 Jul 2007 |||||
| 14:00 | Congo | 32 (18:11) 21 | Kenya |
| 14:00 | Cameroon | 28 (18:14) 24 | Nigeria |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| Congo | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 65 | +30 | 6 | Advance to semi-finals |
| Cameroon | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 88 | 82 | +6 | 4 | Advance to semi-finals |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 82 | 68 | +14 | 2 | Relegated to 5th place classification |
| Kenya | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 56 | 106 | −50 | 0 | Relegated to 7th place classification |

## Knockout stage

### 7th place match

| Algeria | : | Kenya |
| - | - | - |

### 5th place match

| Nigeria | : | Tunisia |
| - | - | - |

### Championship bracket

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| Thu 19 Jul 2007 − 14:00 | Thu 19 Jul 2007 − 14:00 |
| Angola | 37 |
| Angola | 37 | Sat 21 Jul 2007 − 16:00 | Sat 21 Jul 2007 − 16:00 |
| Cameroon | 21 | Sat 21 Jul 2007 − 16:00 | Sat 21 Jul 2007 − 16:00 |
| Cameroon | 21 | Angola | 35 |
| Thu 19 Jul 2007 − 16:00 | Thu 19 Jul 2007 − 16:00 | | Angola | 35 |
| Thu 19 Jul 2007 − 16:00 | Thu 19 Jul 2007 − 16:00 | Congo | 22 |
| Congo | 32 | Congo | 22 |
| Ivory Coast | 26 | | |
| Ivory Coast | 26 | Third place | Third place |
| | | Fri 20 Jul 2007 − 14:00 | Fri 20 Jul 2007 − 14:00 |
| | | Ivory Coast | 25 |
| | | Cameroon | 24 |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Team | Record |
| - | - | - |
| | Angola | 5–0 |
| | Congo | 4–1 |
| | Ivory Coast | 3–2 |
| 4 | Cameroon | 2–3 |
| 5 | Tunisia | 2–2 |
| 6 | Nigeria | 1–3 |
| 7 | Algeria | 1–3 |
| 8 | Kenya | 0–4 |

## Awards

* 2003 All-Africa Games Women's Handball winner
* Angola 4th title
