African Race Walking Championships

African Race Walking Championships

Sport	Race walking
Founded	1999
Continent	Africa (CAA)

The African Race Walking Championships was a quadrennial race walking competition for athletes representing countries from Africa, organized by the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA). It was established in 1999 and has featured races for senior men (20 km) and women (10 km in 1999, 20 km from 2005 on). ^[1] The 2005 edition was held jointly with the African Combined Events Championships. ^{[2] [3]} The 2009 edition also featured junior events (10 km men and women). ^[4] The 2013 men's event was part of the IAAF World Race Walking Challenge. ^[5]

Editions

	Year	City	Country	Date
I	1999	Boumerdès	Algeria
II	2005	El Menzah, Tunis	Tunisia	May 21-22
III	2009	Radès	Tunisia	April 19
IV	2013	Belle Vue	Mauritius	April 19
V	2015	Moka	Mauritius	April 11–12

Results

Results were compiled from the Athletics Weekly, ^[1] the Confederation of African Athletics, ^{[2] [4]} the IAAF, ^{[3] [5]} and the Fédération Suisse de Marche. ^{[6] [7]}

Men's results

20 kilometres

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1999	Hatem Ghoula  (TUN)	1:28:12	Moussa Aouanouk  (ALG)	1:31:44	Merzak Abbès  (ALG)	1:32:42
2005	Hatem Ghoula  (TUN)	1:29:28	Moussa Aouanouk  (ALG)	1:30:01	Hassanine Sebei  (TUN)	1:32:31
2009	Hassanine Sebei  (TUN)	1:24:15.5	Hichem Medjeber  (ALG)	1:24:50.3	Ali Amrouch  (ALG)	1:25:02.6
2013	Lebogang Shange  (RSA)	1:28:31	Hassanine Sebei  (TUN)	1:28:40	Hichem Medjeber  (ALG)	1:32:26

10 kilometres (Junior)

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2009	Mohamed Fetah Meddour  (ALG)	45:37.6	Hedi Bougatfa  (TUN)	45:57.1	Houcem Abdellaoui  (ALG)	46:01.3

Women's results

10 kilometres

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1999	Bahia Boussad  (ALG)	51:36	Dounia Mimouni  (ALG)	52:32	Wafa Mouelhi  (TUN)	52:40

20 kilometres

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2005	Bahia Boussad  (ALG)	1:47:01	Rahma Mahmoudi  (TUN)	1:48:11	Nicolene Cronje  (RSA)	1:49:54
2009	Chaima Trabelsi  (TUN)	1:37:43.4	Olfa Lafi  (TUN)	1:37:58.2	Aynalem Bekashign Meshesha  (ETH)	1:42:28.1

10 kilometres (Junior)

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2009	Olfa Hamdi  (TUN)	50:19.8	Sabrine Sellimi  (TUN)	52:19.9	Jihad Adel Mohamed El Sayed Meshref  (EGY)	55:05.0

See also

• IAAF World Race Walking Cup
• European Race Walking Cup
• Pan American Race Walking Cup
• South American Race Walking Championships
• Asian Race Walking Championships
• Oceania Race Walking Championships
• Central American Race Walking Championships

References

1. World and Continental Race Walking Championships and Cups - AFRICAN RACE WALKING CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved August 2, 2013
2. African Combined Events and Race Walking Champs, Tunis (Tunisia) 21-22/05 , retrieved August 1, 2013
3. Mzoughi, Hassen (May 22, 2005), Algeria, Tunisia and South Africa triumph at the African Championships for Combined Events and Race Walking, IAAF , retrieved August 2, 2013
4. Road walking African championships, Radès (Tunisia) 19/04, April 19, 2009, retrieved August 1, 2013
5. Walburton, Paul (April 19, 2013), Stylish Shange surprises to take African Race Walk title, IAAF , retrieved August 2, 2013
6. Championnats d'Afrique de Marche, 19 Avril 2009, Radès (PDF), Fédération Suisse de Marche, April 19, 2009, retrieved August 2, 2013
7. Result 20 Kilometres Race Walk - African Race Walking Championships (PDF), Fédération Suisse de Marche, April 19, 2013, retrieved August 2, 2013