1985 African Championships in Athletics

1985 African Championships in Athletics
Dates	15–18 August
Host city	Cairo, Egypt
← Rabat 1984 Annaba 1988 →

The 1985 African Championships in Athletics were held in Cairo, Egypt between 15 and 18 August.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.8 m/s)	Chidi Imo   Nigeria	10.22	Charles-Louis Seck   Senegal	10.37	Victor Edet   Nigeria	10.44
200 metres (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Simeon Kipkemboi   Kenya	20.82	Innocent Egbunike   Nigeria	20.85	Alfred Nyambane   Kenya	20.92
400 metres	Innocent Egbunike   Nigeria	45.22 CR	Gabriel Tiacoh   Ivory Coast	45.44	David Kitur   Kenya	46.01
800 metres	Sammy Koskei   Kenya	1:45.30	Moussa Fall   Senegal	1:45.95	Juma Ndiwa   Kenya	1:46.67
1500 metres	Omer Khalifa   Sudan	3:37.74 CR	Abdi Bile   Somalia	3:38.19	Joseph Chesire   Kenya	3:38.72
5000 metres [a]	Wodajo Bulti   Ethiopia	14:40.12	Paul Kipkoech   Kenya	14:43.05	John Ngugi   Kenya	14:44.33
10,000 metres	Wodajo Bulti   Ethiopia	28:22.43	Kipsubai Koskei   Kenya	28:26.63	Paul Kipkoech   Kenya	28:29.64
Marathon	Ahmed Salah   Djibouti	2:23:01	Kebede Balcha   Ethiopia	2:24:31	Dereje Nedi   Ethiopia	2:25:41
3000 metre steeplechase	Julius Kariuki   Kenya	8:20.74 CR	Joshua Kipkemboi   Kenya	8:21.70	Féthi Baccouche   Tunisia	8:38.94
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.7 m/s)	René Djédjémel Mélédjé   Ivory Coast	14.14	Ikechukwu Mbadugha   Nigeria	14.47	Hisham Mohamed Makin   Egypt	14.52
400 metres hurdles	Amadou Dia Bâ   Senegal	48.29 CR	Henry Amike   Nigeria	49.16	René Djédjémel Mélédjé   Ivory Coast	49.59
4 × 100 metres relay	Nigeria Iziaq Adeyanju Ikpoto Eseme Victor Edet Chidi Imo	39.28 CR	Kenya Alfred Nyambane Simeon Kipkemboi Joseph Sainah Peter Wekesa	39.91	Algeria Abdesslam Kadouri Abdelkader Kaci Djamel Boudebibah Mustapha Kamel Selmi	40.14
4 × 400 metres relay	Kenya Julius Sang Tito Sawe Alfred Nyambane David Kitur	3:01.86 CR	Nigeria Henry Amike Innocent Egbunike Moses Ugbisien Sunday Uti	3:05.51	Senegal Amadou Dia Ba Ousmane Diarra Moussa Fall Babacar Niang	3:07.94
20 kilometre road walk	Abdelwahab Ferguène   Algeria	1:33:28	Shemsu Hassan   Ethiopia	1:42:26	Abderrahmane Djebbar   Algeria	1:49:26
High jump	Moussa Sagna Fall   Senegal	2.17	Ogmore Okoro   Nigeria	2.17	Khalid Koughbar   Morocco	2.11
Pole vault	Choukri Abahnini   Tunisia	4.60	Mourad Mahour Bacha   Algeria	4.50	Youssef Qortobi   Morocco	4.50
Long jump	Paul Emordi   Nigeria	7.90	Joseph Kio   Nigeria	7.81	Mustapha Benmrah   Morocco	7.56
Triple jump	Paul Emordi   Nigeria	16.56	Joseph Kio   Nigeria	16.26	Mamadou Diallo   Senegal	16.17
Shot put	Ahmed Mohamed Ashoush   Egypt	19.34	Ahmed Kamel Shata   Egypt	19.23	Mohamed Fatihi   Morocco	17.40
Discus throw	Christian Okoye   Nigeria	63.56 CR	Mohamed Naguib Hamed   Egypt	62.24	Hassan Ahmed Hamad   Egypt	55.38
Hammer throw	Hakim Toumi   Algeria	70.56 CR	Yacine Louail   Algeria	61.30	Ahmed Ibrahim Taha   Egypt	61.54
Javelin throw	Ahmed Mahour Bacha   Algeria	80.04 CR	Mongi Alimi   Tunisia	75.30	Justin Arop   Uganda	74.60
Decathlon	Mourad Mahour Bacha   Algeria	6712	Abu El Makarem El Hamd   Egypt	5642	Landry Nzambé-Busugu   Gabon	5259

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.9 m/s)	Rufina Uba   Nigeria	11.61	Doris Wiredu   Ghana	11.82	Lynda Eseimokumo   Nigeria	11.86
200 metres	Rufina Uba   Nigeria	23.79	Mary Onyali   Nigeria	23.98	Martha Appiah   Ghana	24.10
400 metres	Kehinde Vaughan   Nigeria	53.33	Doris Wiredu   Ghana	53.62	Grace Bakari   Ghana	53.72
800 metres	Selina Chirchir   Kenya	2:03.70	Mary Chemweno   Kenya	2:04.58	Fatima Aouam   Morocco	2:04.91
1500 metres	Mary Chemweno   Kenya	4:17.90	Fatima Aouam   Morocco	4:19.11	Hellen Kimaiyo   Kenya	4:22.85
3000 metres	Hellen Kimaiyo   Kenya	9:18.53	Hassania Darami   Morocco	9:19.82	Regina Chemeli   Kenya	9:20.62
10,000 metres	Hassania Darami   Morocco	35:09.68	Karima Farag Mohamed   Ethiopia	44:01.32
100 metres hurdles (wind: +1.3 m/s)	Maria Usifo   Nigeria	13.52	Cécile Ngambi   Cameroon	13.81	Albertine Koutouan   Ivory Coast	14.27
400 metres hurdles	Nawal El Moutawakil   Morocco	56.00	Maria Usifo   Nigeria	57.02	Marie Womplou   Ivory Coast	59.85
4 × 100 metres relay	Ghana Martha Appiah Grace Armah Cynthia Quartey Doris Wiredu	45.08	Nigeria Beatrice Utondu Mary Onyali Lynda Eseimokumo Rufina Ubah	45.45	Ivory Coast Patricia Foufoué Ziga Célestine N'Drin Louise Koré Seraphine Murekatete	46.98
4 × 400 metres relay	Nigeria Airat Bakare Maria Usifo Kehinde Vaughan Sadia Showunmi	3:36.13	Kenya Selina Jeruto Mary Chemweno Selina Chirchir Esther Kawaya	3:39.66	Ghana Mary Mensah Veronica Bawuah Doris Wiredu Ayishetu Adam	3:42.32
High jump	Awa Dioum-Ndiaye   Senegal	1.76	Kawther Akrémi   Tunisia	1.76	Lucienne N'Da   Ivory Coast	1.70
Long jump	Marianne Mendoza   Senegal	6.15	Grace Armah   Ghana	6.01	Caroline Nwajei   Nigeria	6.00
Shot put	Souad Malloussi   Morocco	15.20	Agnès Tchuinté   Cameroon	14.74	Odette Mistoul   Gabon	14.54
Discus throw	Zoubida Laayouni   Morocco	51.80	Mariette Van Heerden   Zimbabwe	50.14	Aïcha Dahmous   Algeria	48.84
Javelin throw	Agnès Tchuinté   Cameroon	54.00	Samia Djémaa   Algeria	50.50	Samira Benhamza   Morocco	49.32
Heptathlon	Chérifa Meskaoui   Morocco	5294	Nacèra Achir   Algeria	5286	Yasmina Azzizi   Algeria	4909

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Nigeria  (NGR)	11	10	3	24
2	Kenya  (KEN)	7	6	8	21
3	Morocco  (MAR)	5	2	6	13
4	Algeria  (ALG)	4	4	4	12
5	Senegal  (SEN)	4	2	2	8
6	Ethiopia  (ETH)	2	3	1	6
7	Egypt  (EGY)	1	3	3	7
	Ghana  (GHA)	1	3	3	7
9	Tunisia  (TUN)	1	2	1	4
10	Cameroon  (CMR)	1	2	0	3
11	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	1	1	5	7
12	Djibouti  (DJI)	1	0	0	1
	Sudan  (SUD)	1	0	0	1
14	Somalia  (SOM)	0	1	0	1
	Zimbabwe  (ZIM)	0	1	0	1
16	Gabon  (GAB)	0	0	2	2
17	Uganda  (UGA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		40	40	39	119

See also

• 1985 in athletics (track and field)

Notes

1. The athletes ran an extra lap, making the distance 5400 metres in total.

External links

• Results – GBR Athletics
• Medallists