2010 African Championships in Athletics

2010 African Championships
Dates	28 July – 1 August
Host city	Nairobi, Kenya
Venue	Nyayo Stadium
Events	44
Participation	587 athletes from 46 nations
Records set	6 Championship records
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The 2010 African Championships in Athletics was held in Nairobi, Kenya from, 28 July to 1 August 2010.

Background

The African Championships in Athletics were held in Kenya for the first time. Previously two major athletics events have been held in Kenya, namely 1987 All-Africa Games and 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Preparations

The host stadium in Nairobi

The championships were awarded to Kenya at the April 2007 Confederation of African Athletics Congress in Dakar, Senegal. ^[1]

The event was originally scheduled to be held from April 28 to May 2, 2010, but due to delayed preparations the event was moved forward. ^[2] The Moi International Sports Centre was initially set to become the host venue, ^[3] but it was later changed to the smaller Nyayo Stadium. ^[4]

Men's results

Track

Chronology: 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Ben-Youssef Méité   Ivory Coast	10.08 PB	Abdul Aziz Zakari   Ghana	10.12 SB	Simon Magakwe  South Africa	10.14 SB
200 m details	Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud   Egypt	20.36 NR	Ben-Youssef Méité   Ivory Coast	20.39 SB	Simon Magakwe  South Africa	20.56
400 m details	Mohamed Khouaja Libya	44.98 NR	Rabah Yousif   Sudan	45.18	Gary Kikaya   Democratic Republic of the Congo	45.28
800 m details	David Rudisha   Kenya	1:42.84 CR	Alfred Kirwa Yego   Kenya	1:44.85 SB	Jackson Kivuva   Kenya	1:45.47 SB
1500 m details	Asbel Kiprop   Kenya	3:36.19 CR	Amine Laâlou   Morocco	3:36.38	Mekonnen Gebremedhin   Ethiopia	3:36.65
5000 m details	Edwin Soi   Kenya	13:30.46 SB	Vincent Yator   Kenya	13:30.53 SB	Mark Kiptoo   Kenya	13:32.45 SB
10,000 m details	Wilson Kiprop   Kenya	27:32.91	Moses Kipsiro   Uganda	27:33.37	Geoffrey Mutai   Kenya	27:33.83
110 m hurdles details	Othmane Hadj Lazib   Algeria	13.77	Selim Nurudeen   Nigeria	13.83	Ruan de Vries  South Africa	13.98
400 m hurdles details	L. J. van Zyl  South Africa	48.51 SB	Cornel Fredericks  South Africa	48.79 SB	Mamadou Kasse Hann   Senegal	49.10 SB
3000 m steeplechase details	Richard Mateelong   Kenya	8:23.54	Ezekiel Kemboi   Kenya	8:26.13	Roba Gary Chubeta   Ethiopia	8:27.15
20 km walk details	Hassanine Sebei   Tunisia	1:20:36 CR	David Kimutai Rotich   Kenya	1:21:07 SB	Hichem Medjeber   Algeria	1:22:53 PB
4 × 100 m relay details	Hannes Dreyer Simon Magakwe Lehann Fourie Thuso Mpuang  South Africa	39.12	Fred Agbaje Benjamin Adukwu Ogho-Oghene Egwero Obinna Metu   Nigeria	39.22	Emmanuel Kubi Nana Kofi Sanah Godwin Hukporti Aziz Zakari   Ghana	39.31
4 × 400 m relay details	Geoffrey Ngeno Vincent Koskei Julius Kirwa Mark Mutai   Kenya	3:02.96	Isaac Makwala Thapelo Ketlogetswe Pako Seribe Obakeng Ngwigwa   Botswana	3:05.16	Saul Weigopwa James Godday Tobi Ogunmola Isah Salihu   Nigeria	3:06.53
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

Chronology: 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Kabelo Kgosiemang   Botswana	2.19	Bong Matogno   Cameroon	2.15 SB	Fernand Djoumessi   Cameroon Mohamed Idris   Sudan	2.15
Pole vault details	Hamdi Dhouibi   Tunisia	4.70	Larbi Bouraada   Algeria	4.60	Mourad Souissi   Algeria	4.40
Long jump details	Godfrey Khotso Mokoena  South Africa	8.23 SB	Ndiss Kaba Badji   Senegal	8.10	Stanley Gbagbeke   Nigeria	8.06
Triple jump details	Tosin Oke   Nigeria	17.22	Hugo Mamba-Schlick   Cameroon	16.78 SB	Tumelo Thagane  South Africa	16.64
Shot put details	Burger Lambrechts  South Africa	18.63	Roelof Potgieter  South Africa	18.62	Orazio Cremona  South Africa	18.27
Discus throw details	Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly   Egypt	59.30	Yasser Ibrahim Farag   Egypt	58.71	Victor Hogan  South Africa	58.11
Hammer throw details	Mohsen Mohamed Anani   Egypt	74.72	Chris Harmse  South Africa	72.56	Mostafa Al-Gamel   Egypt	71.40
Javelin throw details	Ihab Al Sayed Abdelrahman   Egypt	78.02 SB	Gerhardus Pienaar  South Africa	75.96	Julius Yego   Kenya	74.51 SB
Decathlon details	Larbi Bouraada   Algeria	8148 CR	Mourad Souissi   Algeria	7818 PB	Guillaume Thierry   Mauritius	7100
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

Chronology: 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Blessing Okagbare   Nigeria	11.03 CR	Ruddy Zang Milama   Gabon	11.15 NR	Oludamola Osayomi   Nigeria	11.22 SB
200 m details	Oludamola Osayomi   Nigeria	23.36 SB	Estie Wittstock  South Africa	23.50 SB	Ruddy Zang Milama   Gabon	23.59 PB
400 m details	Amantle Montsho   Botswana	50.03 SB	Amy Mbacké Thiam   Senegal	51.32 SB	Shade Abugan   Nigeria	51.63
800 m details	Zahra Bouras   Algeria	2:00.22	Janeth Jepkosgei   Kenya	2:00.50	Malika Akkaoui   Morocco	2:01.01 PB
1500 m details	Nancy Jebet Lagat   Kenya	4:10.43	Gelete Burka Bati   Ethiopia	4:11.12	Btissam Lakhouad   Morocco	4:11.81
5000 m details	Vivian Cheruiyot   Kenya	16:18.72	Meseret Defar   Ethiopia	16:20.54	Sentayehu Ejigu   Ethiopia	16:22.32
10,000 m details	Tirunesh Dibaba   Ethiopia	31:51.39	Meselech Melkamu   Ethiopia	31:55.50	Linet Masai   Kenya	31:59.36 SB
100 m hurdles details	Seun Adigun   Nigeria	13.14 SB	Gnima Faye   Senegal	13.67	Amina Ferguen   Algeria	13.87
400 m hurdles details	Hayat Lambarki   Morocco	55.96 PB	Ajoke Odumosu   Nigeria	55.97	Maureen Jelagat Maiyo   Kenya	56.74 SB
3000 m steeplechase details	Milcah Chemos Cheywa   Kenya	9:32.18 CR	Sofia Assefa   Ethiopia	9:32.58	Lydiah Rotich   Kenya	9:37.32 SB
20 km walk details	Grace Wanjiru Njue   Kenya	1:34:19 AR	Chaima Trabelsi   Tunisia	1:35:33	Aynalem Eshetu Shefrawe   Ethiopia	1:41:46 SB
4 × 100 m relay details	Lawretta Ozoh Agnes Osazuwa Damola Osayomi Blessing Okagbare   Nigeria	43.45 CR	Fanny Appes Ekanga Charlotte Mebenga Amombo Carole Made Kaboud Mebam Delphine Atangana   Cameroon	44.90	Rosina Amenebede Elizabeth Amolofo Beatrice Gyaman Flings Owusu-Agyapong   Ghana	45.40
4 × 400 m relay details	Shade Abugan Margaret Etim Bukola Abogunloko Ajoke Odumosu   Nigeria	3:29.26	Grace Miroyo Kidake Catherine Nandi Maureen Jelagat Maiyo Janeth Jepkosgei   Kenya	3:35.12	Ndeye Fatou Soumah Fatou Diabaye Marietou Badji Amy Mbacké Thiam   Senegal	3:35.55
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

Chronology: 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Selloane Tsoaeli   Lesotho	1.75	Lissa Labiche   Seychelles	1.70	Cherotich Koech   Kenya	1.55
Pole vault details	Nisrine Dinar   Morocco	3.70	Laetitia Berthier   Burundi	3.50	Sinali Alima Outtara   Ivory Coast	3.40
Long jump details	Blessing Okagbare   Nigeria	6.62	Comfort Onyali   Nigeria	6.42	Jamaa Chnaik   Morocco	6.30
Triple jump details	Sarah Nambawa   Uganda	13.95 NR	Nkurika Domeke   Nigeria	13.71 SB	Otonye Iworima   Nigeria	13.65 SB
Shot put details	Mirian Ibekwe   Nigeria	13.67	Priscilla Isiao   Kenya	13.62 SB	Doris Ratsimbazafy   Madagascar	13.56
Discus throw details	Elizna Naude  South Africa	56.74	Kazai Suzanne Kragbe   Ivory Coast	55.53	Sarah Hasseib Dardiri   Egypt	46.51
Hammer throw details	Amy Sène   Senegal	64.11 NR	Marwa Hussein   Egypt	62.36 SB	Florence Ezeh   Togo	57.94 NR
Javelin throw details	Sunette Viljoen  South Africa	63.33	Justine Robbeson  South Africa	60.24	Hana'a Hassan Omar   Egypt	55.14
Heptathlon details	Margaret Simpson   Ghana	6031 CR	Janet Wienand  South Africa	5500	Selloane Tsoaeli   Lesotho	5302
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

Reigning Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop broke the 1500 m record to win gold for Kenya.

  *   Host nation (Kenya)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya  (KEN)*	10	7	8	25
2	Nigeria  (NGR)	8	5	5	18
3	South Africa  (SAF)	6	7	6	19
4	Egypt  (EGY)	4	2	3	9
5	Algeria  (ALG)	3	2	3	8
6	Morocco  (MAR)	2	1	3	6
7	Botswana  (BOT)	2	1	0	3
	Tunisia  (TUN)	2	1	0	3
9	Ethiopia  (ETH)	1	4	4	9
10	Senegal  (SEN)	1	3	2	6
11	Ivory Coast  (CIV)	1	2	1	4
12	Ghana  (GHA)	1	1	2	4
13	Uganda  (UGA)	1	1	0	2
14	Lesotho  (LES)	1	0	1	2
15	Libya  (LBA)	1	0	0	1
16	Cameroon  (CMR)	0	3	1	4
17	Gabon  (GAB)	0	1	1	2
	Sudan  (SUD)	0	1	1	2
19	Burundi  (BDI)	0	1	0	1
	Seychelles  (SEY)	0	1	0	1
21	DR Congo  (COD)	0	0	1	1
	Madagascar  (MAD)	0	0	1	1
	Mauritius  (MRI)	0	0	1	1
	Togo  (TOG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		44	44	45	133

Source:

Participating nations

•   Algeria (16)
•   Angola (6)
•   Benin (5)
•   Botswana (14)
•   Burkina Faso (12)
•   Burundi (8)
•   Cameroon (12)
•   Comoros (1)
•   Ivory Coast (10)
•   Democratic Republic of the Congo (11)
•   Djibouti (2)
•   Egypt (14)
•   Equatorial Guinea (2)
•   Eritrea (6)
•   Ethiopia (63)
•   Gabon (2)
•   Gambia (3)
•   Ghana (14)
•   Guinea-Bissau (2)
•   Kenya (106)
•   Lesotho (2)
•   Liberia (5)
• Libya (3)
•   Madagascar (6)
• Malawi (1)
•   Mali (5)
•   Mauritius (15)
•   Morocco (19)
•   Mozambique (5)
•   Namibia (6)
•   Nigeria (37)
•   Republic of the Congo (7)
•   Rwanda (14)
•   Senegal (13)
•   Seychelles (14)
•   Sierra Leone (1)
•   Somalia (5)
•  South Africa (41)
•   Sudan (7)
• Swaziland (1)
•   Tanzania (21)
•   Togo (4)
•   Tunisia (7)
•   Uganda (27)
•   Zambia (9)
•   Zimbabwe (4)

References

1. Daily Nation, July 26, 2010: On your marks, set...Kenya ready on eve of Games
2. The Standard, September 26, 2009: African Championships dates changed
3. The Standard, July 14, 2009: African Athletics Championships event organisers in race against time
4. Daily Nation, December 22, 2009: Nyayo it is for continental athletics fete

Daily reports

• Negash, Elshadai (2010-07-27). High powered rivalries expected in Nairobi – African Championships preview Archived 2010-12-12 at the Wayback Machine . IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
• Negash, Elshadai (2010-07-28). Kiprop takes men’s 10,000m as African championships begin in Nairobi Archived 2012-10-26 at the Wayback Machine . IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
• Negash, Elshadai (2010-07-29). Meite, Okagbare take 100m titles, Cheruiyot over Defar again in the 5000m - African champs Day 2 Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine . IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
• Negash, Elshadai (2010-07-30). Rudisha sizzles 1:42.84 in Nairobi as Kenya collects three golds in Nairobi - African champs, day 3 Archived 2010-12-12 at the Wayback Machine . IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
• Negash, Elshadai (2010-07-31). Dibaba takes down Masai in 10,000m to notch first Ethiopian gold in Nairobi - African champs, day 4 Archived 2012-10-26 at the Wayback Machine . IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
• Negash, Elshadai (2010-08-01). Kenya captures five gold medals as African champs conclude in Nairobi - African champs, day 5 Archived 2010-08-04 at the Wayback Machine . IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-01.

External links

• Results
• Confederation of African Athletics website