2000 African Championships in Athletics

2000 African Championships
Dates	12–15 July
Host city	Algiers, Algeria
Venue	Stade 5 Juillet 1962
Events	43
Participation	411 athletes from 43 nations
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The 12th African Championships in Athletics were held in Algiers, Algeria between 12 and 15 July 2000 at the Stade 5 Juillet 1962.

Men's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Abdul Aziz Zakari   Ghana	10.13	Stéphan Buckland   Mauritius	10.20	Kenneth Andam   Ghana	10.33
200 m (wind: +0.2 m/s)	Abdul Aziz Zakari   Ghana	20.23	Joseph Batangdon   Cameroon	20.31 =NR	Oumar Loum   Senegal	20.76
400 m	Eric Milazar   Mauritius	45.62	Malik Louahla   Algeria	45.78	Sofiène Labidi   Tunisia	45.81
800 m	Djabir Saïd-Guerni   Algeria	1:45.88	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi   South Africa	1:46.28	Mouhssin Chehibi   Morocco	1:46.47
1500 m	Youssef Baba   Morocco	3:42.07	Adil Kaouch   Morocco	3:42.53	Mohamed Khaldi   Algeria	3:42.77
5000 m	Ali Saïdi Sief   Algeria	13:26.86	Saïd Bérioui   Morocco	13:31.75	Mohamed Saïd El Wardi   Morocco	13:30.01 (???)
10,000 m	Abraha Hadush   Ethiopia	28:40.51	Dejene Berhanu   Ethiopia	28:41.11	Kamel Kohil   Algeria	28:48.98
3000 m St.	Lotfi Turki   Tunisia	8:33.29	Laïd Bessou   Algeria	8:35.89	David Chepkisa   Kenya	8:39.00
110 m H (wind: -0.3 m/s)	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja   Madagascar	13.99	Doudou Félou Sow   Senegal	14.38	Toufik Dahmani   Algeria	15.10
400 m H	Sylvester Omodiale   Nigeria	49.81	Jean-Dominique Dième   Senegal	50.29	Yvon Rakotoarimiandry   Madagascar	50.39
4 X 100 m	Ghana Abu Duah Kenneth Andam Harry Adu Mfum Abdul Aziz Zakari	39.90	Mauritius Arnaud Casquette Eric Milazar Fernando Augustin Stephane Buckland	40.07	Gabon Lueyi Dovy Charles Tayot Yvan Duboze Antoine Boussombo	40.53
4 X 400 m	Algeria Malik Louahla Samir Louahla Adem Hecini Djabir Saïd-Guerni	3:05.45	Botswana Lulu Basinyi Otukile Lekote Agripa Matsameko Johnson Kubisa	3:06.07	Senegal Youssoupha Sarr Hachim Ndiaye Jean-Dominique Dieme Ousmane Niang	3:06.53
20 km Walk	Hatem Ghoula   Tunisia	1:25:38 CR	Moussa Aouanouk   Algeria	1:25:42	Merzak Abbès   Algeria	1:32:37
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Abderrahmane Hammad   Algeria	2.34 CR	Malcolm Hendriks   South Africa	2.20	Eugène Ernesta   Seychelles	2.20 NR
Long jump	Younès Moudrik   Morocco	8.34	Hatem Mersal   Egypt	7.90	Mehdi El Ghazouani   Morocco	7.88
Pole vault	Rafik Mefti   Algeria	5.00	Karim Sène   Senegal	4.80	Mohamed Benyahia   Algeria	4.65
Triple jump	Andrew Owusu   Ghana	16.69	Samuel Okantey   Ghana	16.69	Olivier Sanou   Burkina Faso	16.31
Shot put	Chima Ugwu   Nigeria	19.02	John Sullivan   South Africa	17.46	Hicham Aïtaha   Morocco	16.91
Discus	Frits Potgieter   South Africa	60.35	Mickael Conjungo   Central African Republic	59.58	Chima Ugwu   Nigeria	57.91
Javelin	Maher Ridane   Tunisia	72.51	Khaled Es Sayed Yassin   Egypt	72.01	Walid Abderrazak Mohamed   Egypt	71.67
Hammer	Samir Haouam   Algeria	69.38	Mohamed Karim Horchani   Tunisia	63.68	Yamen Hussein Abdel Moneim   Egypt	63.71
Decathlon	Rédouane Youcef   Algeria	7129 points	Mada Ndiaye   Senegal	6981 points	Adil Chakri   Morocco	6715 points
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Myriam Léonie Mani   Cameroon	11.21	Aïda Diop   Senegal	11.46	Monica Twum   Ghana	11.47
200 m (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Myriam Léonie Mani   Cameroon	22.54	Aïda Diop   Senegal	23.01	Fatima Yusuf   Nigeria	23.27
400 m	Claudine Komgang   Cameroon	51.35	Mireille Nguimgo   Cameroon	51.81	Nadjina Kaltouma   Chad	52.27
800 m	Hasna Benhassi   Morocco	1:59.01	Nouria Mérah-Benida   Algeria	1:59.73	Gladys Wamuyu   Kenya	2:00.32
1500 m	Nouria Mérah-Benida   Algeria	4:16.14	Gladys Wamuyu   Kenya	4:16.56	Berhane Herpassa   Ethiopia	4:16.87
5000 m	Asmae Leghzaoui   Morocco	15:43.46	Meseret Defar   Ethiopia	15:49.86	Merima Denboba   Ethiopia	15:53.68
10,000 m	Souad Aït Salem   Algeria	34:02.28	Genet Teka   Ethiopia	34:05.18	Bouchra Chaabi   Morocco	34:08.79
100 m H (wind: +0.1 m/s)	Glory Alozie   Nigeria	13.09	Lalanirina Rosa Rakotozafy   Madagascar	13.21	Maria-Joëlle Conjungo   Central African Republic	13.77
400 m H	Mame Tacko Diouf   Senegal	57.48	Gnima Touré   Senegal	58.96	Nabila Jami   Morocco	62.45
4 X 100 m	Ghana Helen Amoako Monica Twum Veronica Bawuah Vida Anim	43.99	Senegal Bintou Ndiaye Aminata Diouf Mame Tacko Diouf Aida Diop	44.62	Cameroon Françoise Mbango Etone Claudine Komgang Hortense Bewouda Mireille Nguimgo	46.97
4 X 400 m	Cameroon Mireille Nguimgo Hortense Bewouda Claudine Komgang Myriam Leonie Mani	3:32.89	Morocco Bouchra Zboured Samira Raif Hasna Benhassi Soumaya Laabani	3:42.91	Algeria Amel Baraket Hadjira Sifouani Nahida Touhami Khadija Touati	3:51.01
10 km Walk	Bahia Boussad   Algeria	49:33	Nagwa Ibrahim Ali   Egypt	50:15	Dounia Kara   Algeria	50:55
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Hind Bounouar   Morocco	1.75	Amina Lemgherbi   Algeria	1.70	Hamida Benhocine   Algeria	1.70
Pole vault	Syrine Balti   Tunisia	3.85	Annelie van Wyk   South Africa	3.80	Rasha Abdel Khalek   Egypt	3.10
Long jump	Kéné Ndoye   Senegal	6.39	Elisa Cossa   Mozambique	6.20	Béryl Laramé   Seychelles	6.18
Triple jump	Baya Rahouli   Algeria	14.23	Françoise Mbango Etone   Cameroon	13.87	Kéné Ndoye   Senegal	13.81
Shot put	Hanaa Salah El Melegi   Egypt	16.01	Amel Ben Khaled   Tunisia	15.39	Wafa Ismail El Baghdadi   Egypt	14.97
Discus	Monia Kari   Tunisia	58.46	Ndoumbé Gaye   Senegal	50.81	Felicia Nkiru Ojiego   Nigeria	49.65
Hammer	Caroline Fournier   Mauritius	59.60	Marwa Hussein   Egypt	57.15	Djida Yalloulène   Algeria	49.72
Javelin	Aïda Sellam   Tunisia	53.35	Lindy Leveaux   Seychelles	50.88	Hanaa Salah El Melegi   Egypt	42.31
Heptathlon	Yasmina Kettab   Algeria	5837 points	Maralize Fouché   South Africa	5726 points	Patience Itanyi   Nigeria	5611 points
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Algeria  (ALG)	12	5	9	26
2	Tunisia  (TUN)	6	2	1	9
3	Morocco  (MAR)	5	3	7	15
4	Ghana  (GHA)	5	1	2	8
5	Cameroon  (CMR)	4	3	1	8
6	Nigeria  (NGR)	3	0	4	7
7	Senegal  (SEN)	2	9	3	14
8	Mauritius  (MRI)	2	2	0	4
9	South Africa  (RSA)	1	5	0	6
10	Egypt  (EGY)	1	4	5	10
11	Ethiopia  (ETH)	1	3	2	6
12	Madagascar  (MAD)	1	1	1	3
13	Kenya  (KEN)	0	1	2	3
	Seychelles  (SEY)	0	1	2	3
15	Central African Republic  (CAF)	0	1	1	2
16	Botswana  (BOT)	0	1	0	1
	Mozambique  (MOZ)	0	1	0	1
18	Burkina Faso  (BFA)	0	0	1	1
	Chad  (CHA)	0	0	1	1
	Gabon  (GAB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		43	43	43	129

See also

• 2000 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• Results – GBR Athletics