| Sport | Athletics |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1979 |
| No. of teams | 54 |
| Continent | Africa (CAA) |
| Most recent champion(s) | Last winners lists |
The African Championships in Athletics is a continental athletics event organized by the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA), the continental association for the sport in Africa. Since its inaugural edition in 1979 it was at first organised intermittently with nine editions held in fourteen years until 1993. Following the tenth edition in 1996 it has been organised biennially on even years, and is always held in the same year as the Summer Olympics. The 21st edition was held in Asaba, Nigeria in August 2018.
The event featured a men's marathon from 1979 to 1990. Following it being dropped from the programme an African Marathon Championships was briefly contested. [1] The event programme has roughly matched that of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, with the exception of the 50 kilometres race walk. [2]
The following list shows changes to the event programme:
| Country | First | Second | Third | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 South Africa | 9 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
 Nigeria | 8 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
 Kenya | 5 | 8 | 7 | 20 |
 Algeria | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
 Morocco | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
 Tunisia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
 Senegal | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Ethiopia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nigeria | 165 | 131 | 98 | 394 |
| 2 | Kenya | 159 | 141 | 124 | 424 |
| 3 | South Africa | 145 | 132 | 118 | 395 |
| 4 | Algeria | 80 | 56 | 74 | 210 |
| 5 | Morocco | 53 | 51 | 82 | 186 |
| 6 | Ethiopia | 50 | 67 | 63 | 180 |
| 7 | Senegal | 43 | 55 | 55 | 153 |
| 8 | Tunisia | 39 | 41 | 35 | 115 |
| 9 |  Egypt | 36 | 59 | 51 | 146 |
| 10 |  Ghana | 35 | 35 | 31 | 101 |
| 11 |  Ivory Coast | 26 | 33 | 33 | 92 |
| 12 |  Botswana | 24 | 14 | 7 | 45 |
| 13 |  Cameroon | 20 | 33 | 37 | 90 |
| 14 |  Burkina Faso | 9 | 12 | 9 | 30 |
| 15 |  Madagascar | 9 | 5 | 9 | 23 |
| 16 |  Mauritius | 8 | 23 | 20 | 51 |
| 17 |  Uganda | 8 | 14 | 19 | 41 |
| 18 |  Mozambique | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 19 |  Sudan | 5 | 9 | 7 | 21 |
| 20 |  Gabon | 5 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 21 |  Seychelles | 4 | 7 | 7 | 18 |
| 22 |  Namibia | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 |
| 23 |  Tanzania | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 24 |  Zambia | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
| 25 |  Djibouti | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| 26 |  Liberia | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 27 |  Benin | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 28 |  Burundi | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| 29 |  Chad | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 30 |  Gambia | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 31 |  Zimbabwe | 1 | 7 | 5 | 13 |
| 32 |  Central African Republic | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 33 |  DR Congo | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
 Guinea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 35 |  Niger | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 36 |  Eritrea | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
 Lesotho | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
 Rwanda | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 39 |  Angola | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 Libya | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 41 |  Eswatini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 42 |  Congo | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
 Mali | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | |
| 44 |  Togo | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 45 |  Guinea-Bissau | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Somalia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 47 |  Malawi | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (47 entries) | 965 | 970 | 957 | 2892 | |
The best athletes of these championships are:
Men Hakim Toumi 7 gold medals
Women Zoubida Laayouni 7 gold medals
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