1984 African Championships in Athletics

1984 African Championships in Athletics
Dates	12–15 August
Host city	Rabat, Morocco
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The 1984 African Championships in Athletics were held in Rabat, Morocco from August 12 to 15, 1984 in the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Chidi Imo   Nigeria	10.40 CR	Charles-Louis Seck   Senegal	10.49	Eseme Ikpoto   Nigeria	10.58
200 metres	Innocent Egbunike   Nigeria	20.66 CR	Eseme Ikpoto   Nigeria	21.19	Ali Bakhta   Algeria	21.32
400 metres	Gabriel Tiacoh   Ivory Coast	45.52	Sunday Uti   Nigeria	46.16	El Kashief Hassan   Sudan	46.47
800 metres	Sammy Koskei   Kenya	1:45.17 CR	Moussa Fall   Senegal	1:45.56	Omer Khalifa   Sudan	1:45.78
1500 metres	Saïd Aouita   Morocco	3:38.18 CR	Omer Khalifa   Sudan	3:39.90	Mehdi Aidet   Algeria	3:40.85
5000 metres	Abderrazak Bounour   Algeria	13:41.94 CR	Samson Obwocha   Kenya	13:41.98	Kipsubai Koskei   Kenya	13:42.05
10,000 metres	Kipsubai Koskei   Kenya	28:11.70 CR	Ahmed Salah   Djibouti	28:17.40 (NR)	Mohamed Ali Chouri   Tunisia	28:49.80
3000 metre steeplechase	Joshua Kipkemboi   Kenya	8:27.88 CR	Lahcene Babaci   Algeria	8:36.60	Habib Chérif   Algeria	8:38.26
110 metres hurdles	Philip Sang   Kenya	14.15	Riad Benhaddad   Algeria	14.36	Hisham Mohamed Makin   Egypt	14.6
400 metres hurdles	Amadou Dia Bâ   Senegal	49.30 CR	Henry Amike   Nigeria	49.95	Ahmed Abdel Halim Ghanem   Egypt	50.77
4 × 100 metres relay	Nigeria   Nigeria Iziak Adeyanju Ikpoto Eseme Samson Oyeledun Chidi Imoh	39.49 CR	Côte d'Ivoire   Ivory Coast Otokpa Kouadio Barthelemy Koffi Georges Kablan Degnan Gabriel Tiacoh	39.94	Senegal   Senegal Hamidou Diawara Ibrahima Fall Charles-Louis Seck Mamadou Sène	40.86
4 × 400 metres relay	Senegal   Senegal Boubacar Diallo Babacar Niang Moussa Fall Amadou Dia Ba	3:04.76 CR	Nigeria   Nigeria Henry Amike Olurotimi Peters Moses Ugbisien Sunday Uti	3:04.85	Kenya   Kenya Elkana Nyangau Tito Sawe James Maina Boi Peter Kipchumba	3:06.73
20 kilometre road walk	Abdelwahab Ferguène   Algeria	1:30:02 CR	Benamar Kachkouche   Algeria	1:30:02	Hassan Kouchaoui   Morocco	1:32:46
High jump	Mohamed Aghlal   Morocco	2.17	Boubacar Guèye   Senegal	2.14	Azzedine Mostéfa   Algeria Belba Ngaroudel   Chad	2.05
Pole vault	Mohamed Bouihiri   Morocco	4.60	Mongi Labidi   Tunisia	4.40	Choukri Abahnini   Tunisia	4.40
Long jump	Paul Emordi   Nigeria	7.90	Yusuf Alli   Nigeria	7.88	Joseph Kio   Nigeria	7.82
Triple jump	Joseph Taiwo   Nigeria	17.19 CR	Ajayi Agbebaku   Nigeria	16.96	Mamadou Diallo   Senegal	16.68
Shot put	Ahmed Mohamed Ashoush   Egypt	18.45	Ahmed Kamel Shata   Egypt	18.09	Mohamed Fatihi   Morocco	16.95
Discus throw	Mohamed Naguib Hamed   Egypt	58.62	Abderrazak Ben Hassine   Tunisia	54.46	Mohamed Fatihi   Morocco	48.86
Hammer throw	Hakim Toumi   Algeria	68.64 CR	Hisham Abdeslam Zaki   Egypt	61.04	Yacine Louail   Algeria	59.90
Javelin throw	Tarek Chaabani   Tunisia	77.40 CR	Mongi Alimi   Tunisia	73.88	Ahmed Mahour Bacha   Algeria	71.86
Decathlon	Mourad Mahour Bacha   Algeria	7022	Hatem Bachar   Tunisia	6890	Abdennacer Moumen   Morocco	6810

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Doris Wiredu   Ghana	11.88	Joyce Odhiambo   Kenya	11.93	Grace Armah   Ghana	11.98
200 metres	Nawal El Moutawakel   Morocco	23.93	Mercy Addy   Ghana	24.42	Joyce Odhiambo   Kenya	24.44
400 metres	Ruth Atuti   Kenya	54.05	Mable Esendi   Kenya	54.88	Mercy Addy   Ghana	56.36
800 metres	Justina Chepchirchir   Kenya	2:04.52	Florence Wanjiru   Kenya	2:05.96	Célestine N'Drin   Ivory Coast	2:07.72
1500 metres	Justina Chepchirchir   Kenya	4:18.45	Fatima Aouam   Morocco	4:22.75	Leïla Bendahmane   Algeria	4:23.15
3000 metres	Mary Chepkemboi   Kenya	9:19.05	Regina Chemeli   Kenya	9:22.17	Leïla Bendahmane   Algeria	9:26.28
100 metres hurdles	Maria Usifo   Nigeria	13.42	Awa Dioum-Ndiaye   Senegal	14.40	Chérifa Meskaoui   Morocco	14.55
400 metres hurdles	Nawal El Moutawakel   Morocco	56.01	Rachida Ferdjaoui   Algeria	63.17	only two finalists
4 × 100 metres relay	Kenya Esther Kawaya Joyce Odhiambo Ruth Atuti Mable Esendi	46.18	Ghana Mercy Addy Grace Armah Cynthia Quartey Doris Wiredu	46.20	Gambia Georgiana Freeman Jabou Jawo Amie N'Dow Frances Jatta	47.20
4 × 400 metres relay	Kenya Justina Chepchirchir Esther Kawaya Ruth Atuti Mable Esendi	3:37.76	Ghana Mercy Addy Martha Appiah Doris Wiredu ?	3:45.96	Morocco ? ? Fatima Aouam Nawal El Moutawakel	3:54.41
High jump	Awa Dioum-Ndiaye   Senegal	1.76	Lucienne N'Da   Ivory Coast	1.73	Salimata Coulibaly   Ivory Coast	1.70
Long jump	Marianne Mendoza   Senegal	5.93	Basma Gharbi   Tunisia	5.77	Dalila Tayebi   Algeria	5.68
Shot put	Odette Mistoul   Gabon	15.51	Souad Malloussi   Morocco	15.31	Aïcha Dahmous   Algeria	13.44
Discus throw	Zoubida Laayouni   Morocco	52.70	Aïcha Dahmous   Algeria	50.12	Chérifa Meskaoui   Morocco	46.04
Javelin throw	Ténin Camara   Ivory Coast	45.48	Samira Benhamza   Morocco	44.90	Naïma Fouad   Morocco	44.40
Heptathlon	Chérifa Meskaoui   Morocco	5,448	Frida Kiptala   Kenya	5,292	Nacèra Achir   Algeria	5,195

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya	10	6	3	19
2	Morocco	7	3	8	18
3	Nigeria	6	6	2	14
4	Algeria	4	5	11	20
5	Senegal	4	4	2	10
6	Egypt	2	2	2	6
	Ivory Coast	2	2	2	6
8	Tunisia	1	5	2	8
9	Ghana	1	3	2	6
10	Gabon	1	0	0	1
11	Sudan	0	1	2	3
12	Djibouti	0	1	0	1
13	Chad	0	0	1	1
	Gambia	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		38	38	38	114

See also

• 1984 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• Results – GBR Athletics