2000 African Championships in Athletics

2000 African Championships
Host city	Algiers, Algeria
Date(s)	12–15 July
Main stadium	Stade 5 Juillet 1962
Participation	411 athletes from 43 nations
Events	43
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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	Abdul Aziz Zakari  Ghana	10.13	Stéphan Buckland  Mauritius	10.20	Kenneth Andam  Ghana	10.33
200 m	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	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
20 km Walk	Hatem Ghoula  Tunisia	1:25:38	Moussa Aouanouk  Algeria	1:25:42	Merzak Abbès  Algeria	1:32:37
4 X 100 m	Ghana	39.90	Mauritius	40.07	Gabon	40.53
4 X 400 m	Algeria	3:05.45	Botswana	3:06.07	Senegal	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

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	Myriam Léonie Mani  Cameroon	11.21	Aïda Diop  Senegal	11.46	Monica Twum  Ghana	11.47
200 m	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	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
10 km Walk	Bahia Boussad  Algeria	49:33	Nagwa Ibrahim Ali  Egypt	50:15	Dounia Kara  Algeria	50:55
4 X 100 m	Ghana	43.99	Senegal	44.62	Cameroon	46.97
4 X 400 m	Cameroon	3:32.89	Morocco	3:42.91	Algeria	3:51.01
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	12	4	9	25
2	Tunisia	6	2	1	9
3	Morocco	5	3	7	15
4	Ghana	5	1	2	8
5	Cameroon	4	3	1	8
6	Nigeria	3	0	4	7
7	Senegal	2	9	3	14
8	Mauritius	2	2	0	4
9	South Africa	1	5	0	6
10	Egypt	1	4	5	10
11	Ethiopia	1	3	2	6
12	Madagascar	1	1	1	3
13=	Kenya	0	1	2	3
13=	Seychelles	0	1	2	3
15	Central African Republic	0	1	1	2
16	Botswana	0	1	0	1
17=	Burkina Faso	0	0	1	1
17=	Chad	0	0	1	1
17=	Gabon	0	0	1	1

See also

• 2000 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• Results – GBR Athletics