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2024 African Championships in Athletics

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2024 African Championships
Dates21–26 June
Host cityCameroon Douala, Cameroon
VenueJapoma Stadium Sports Complex
Events45
Participation618 athletes from
50 nations

The 23rd African Championships in Athletics was held in Douala, Cameroon from 21 to 26 June 2024, at the Japoma Stadium Sports Complex. This was the second time the event took place in Cameroon, after they previously hosted the event in 1996. Over 800 athletes from 49 African countries competed at the championships.[1]

Medal summary

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Men

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Chronology: 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | 2026 | 2028
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Joseph Fahnbulleh
 Liberia
10.13 Emmanuel Eseme
 Cameroon
10.15 Benjamin Richardson
 South Africa
10.17
200 metres
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Joseph Fahnbulleh
 Liberia
20.25 Tapiwa Makarawu
 Zimbabwe
20.51 Emmanuel Eseme
 Cameroon
20.66
400 metres
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Cheikh Tidiane Diouf
 Senegal
45.23 Lee Eppie [fr]
 Botswana
45.39 Samuel Ogazi
 Nigeria
45.47
800 metres
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Alex Kipngetich
 Kenya
1:45.02 Kethobogile Haingura
 Botswana
1:45.54 Tom Dradriga
 Uganda
1:46.01
1500 metres
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Brian Komen
 Kenya
3:33.95 CR Ayanleh Abdi Abdillahi [de]
 Djibouti
3:36.24 Boaz Kiprugut [de]
 Kenya
3:37.25
5000 metres
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Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim
 Djibouti
13:38.38 Nibret Melak
 Ethiopia
13:42.95 Abdi Waiss Mouhyadin
 Djibouti
13:43.20
10,000 metres
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Nibret Melak
 Ethiopia
28:52.27 Gemechu Dida
 Ethiopia
28:52.79 Roncer Kipkorir Konga [de]
 Kenya
28:52.94
110 metres hurdles
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Louis François Mendy
 Senegal
13.49 CR Amine Bouanani
 Algeria
13.59 Yousuf Badawy Sayed [de]
 Egypt
13.79
400 metres hurdles
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Victor Ntweng
 Botswana
48.88 Kemorena Tisang [de]
 Botswana
49.24 Abdelmalik Lahoulou
 Algeria
49.36
3000 metres steeplechase
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Leonard Chemutai
 Uganda
8:21.30 Edmund Serem
 Kenya
8:21.94 Matthew Kosgei [de]
 Kenya
8:21.98
4 × 100 metres relay
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 Ghana
Ibrahim Fuseini [de]
Isaac Botsio [de]
Edwin Gadayi
Abdul-Rasheed Saminu
38.63  Nigeria
Kayinsola Ajayi
Usheoritse Itsekiri
Alaba Olukunle Akintola
Oke Oghenebrume
Alexander Chukwukelu [de]
Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ojeli
38.84  Ivory Coast
Gnamien Nehemie N'Goran [fr]
Ismaël Koné [de]
Arthur Cissé
Kouadio Éric Kouame [fr]
Adzeu Yapo Jacky [de]
39.77
4 × 400 metres relay
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 Botswana
Omphile Seribe [de]
Busang Collen Kebinatshipi
Boitumelo Masilo
Leungo Scotch
3:02.23  Kenya
Kevin Kipkorir [de]
Kelvin Sane Tauta [de]
David Sanayek Kapirante [de]
Brian Onyari Tinega [de]
3:02.34  Zambia
Kennedy Luchembe
Patrick Kakozi Nyambe
David Mulenga
Muzala Samukonga
3:02.56
20 kilometres walk
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Misgana Wakuma Fekansa [de]
 Ethiopia
1:22.49 Heristone Wanyonyi
 Kenya
1:23.26 Wayne Snyman
 South Africa
1:25.19
High jump
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Brian Raats
 South Africa
2.18 m Saad Hammouda [de]
 Morocco
Kemboi Asbel Kiprop [de]
 Kenya
2.15 m Not awarded
Pole vault
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Kyle Rademeyer [de]
 South Africa
5.20 m Mehdi Amar Rouana [fr]
 Algeria
5.10 m Boubacar Diallo [de]
 Mali
5.10 m
Long jump
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Cheswill Johnson
 South Africa
7.78 m Chenoult Lionel Coetzee [de]
 Namibia
7.78 m Goodness Iredia [de]
 Nigeria
7.75 m
Triple jump
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Hugues Fabrice Zango
 Burkina Faso
17.18 m Chengetayi Mapaya
 Zimbabwe
16.87 m Amath Faye [fr]
 Senegal
16.54 m
Shot put
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Chukwuebuka Enekwechi
 Nigeria
21.14 m Mostafa Hassan
 Egypt
20.25 m Mohamed Magdi Hamza
 Egypt
19.72 m
Discus throw
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Oussama Khennoussi
 Algeria
63.90 m CR Victor Hogan
 South Africa
63.87 m Ryan Williams [de]
 Namibia
56.78 m
Hammer throw
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Mostafa El Gamel
 Egypt
72.88 m Ahmed Tarek Ismail [de]
 Egypt
70.71 m Allan Cumming
 South Africa
69.43 m
Javelin throw
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Julius Yego
 Kenya
80.24 m Nnamdi Chinecherem
 Nigeria
79.22 m Mustafa Mahmoud Abdel Khaliq
 Egypt
77.25 m
Decathlon
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Larbi Bourrada
 Algeria
7447 pts Dhiae Boudoumi [de]
 Algeria
7218 pts Edwin Kipmutai Too [de]
 Kenya
7132 pts

Women

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Chronology: 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | 2026 | 2028
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Gina Bass-Bittaye
 Gambia
11.14 Maia McCoy
 Liberia
11.16 Maboundou Koné
 Ivory Coast
11.24
200 metres
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Jessica Gbai
 Ivory Coast
22.84 Maboundou Koné
 Ivory Coast
22.99 Asimenye Simwaka
 Malawi
23.05
400 metres
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Miranda Coetzee
 South Africa
51.16 Quincy Malekani [de]
 Zambia
51.56 Esther Elo Joseph
 Nigeria
51.94
800 metres
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Sarah Moraa
 Kenya
2:00.27 Lilian Odira
 Kenya
2:00.36 Soukaina Hajji [de]
 Morocco
2:00.91
1500 metres
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Saron Berhe
 Ethiopia
4:06.05 Caroline Nyaga
 Kenya
4:06.76 Esther Chebet
 Uganda
4:06.90
5000 metres
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Fantaye Belayneh
 Ethiopia
15:30.10 Wubrist Aschal [fr]
 Ethiopia
15:30.25 Samiyah Hassan Nour
 Djibouti
15:42.63
10,000 metres
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Gladys Kwamboka [de]
 Kenya
36:53.59 Rebecca Mwangi [de]
 Kenya
36:59.69 Gela Hambese [de]
 Ethiopia
37:09.20
100 metres hurdles
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Ebony Morrison
 Liberia
12.70 CR NR Marione Fourie
 South Africa
12.74 Sidonie Fiadanantsoa
 Madagascar
12.98
400 metres hurdles
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Rogail Joseph
 South Africa
55.71 Noura Ennadi
 Morocco
56.16 Linda Angounou
 Cameroon
56.48
3000 metres steeplechase
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Loice Chekwemoi
 Uganda
9:24.47 Alemnat Walle Fenta [de]
 Ethiopia
9:35.19 Leah Jeruto [de]
 Kenya
9:36.33
4 × 100 metres relay
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 Nigeria
Justina Tiana Eyakpobeyan
Tima Seikeseye Godbless
Olayinka Olajide
Tobi Amusan
Adaobi Tabugbo [de]
43.01 CR  Ghana
Mary Boakye
Anita Afrifa [de]
Halutie Hor
Deborah Acheampong [de]
43.62  Liberia
Destiny Smith-Barnett
Maia McCoy
Ebony Morrison
Thelma Davies
Symone Darius [de]
44.38
4 × 400 metres relay
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 Nigeria
Patience Okon George
Esther Elo Joseph
Omolara Ogunmakinju
Ella Onojuvwevwo
3:27.31 CR  Zambia
Rhoda Njobvu
Niddy Mingilishi [de]
Quincy Malekani [de]
Abygirl Sepiso [de]
3:32.18  Kenya
Joan Cherono [de]
Veronica Kamumbe Mutua
Esther Mbagari [de]
Mercy Chebet [de]
3:32.65
20 kilometres walk
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Sintayehu Masire Teshager
 Ethiopia
1:37.46 Souad Azzi [fr]
 Algeria
1:40.36 Margret Gati Chacha
 Kenya
1:41.19
High jump
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Rose Yeboah
 Ghana
1.87 m Temitope Adeshina
 Nigeria
1.84 m Fatoumata Balley [fr]
 Guinea
1.84 m
Pole vault
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Miré Reinstorf
 South Africa
4.10 m Dorra Mahfoudhi
 Tunisia
3.60 m Not awarded
Long jump
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Ese Brume
 Nigeria
6.73 m Marthe Koala
 Burkina Faso
6.72 m Danielle Nolte [de]
 South Africa
6.44 m
Triple jump
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Saly Sarr
 Senegal
14.06 m Anne-Suzanna Fosther-Katta [fr]
 Cameroon
13.45 m Veronique Kossenda Rey [de]
 Cameroon
13.35 m
Shot put
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Ashley Erasmus
 South Africa
18.17 m Miné de Klerk
 South Africa
17.09 m Colette Uys [de]
 South Africa
16.28 m
Discus throw
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Ashley Anumba
 Nigeria
59.30 m Obiageri Amaechi
 Nigeria
58.80 m Chioma Onyekwere
 Nigeria
57.93 m
Hammer throw
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Zahra Tatar
 Algeria
67.82 m Oyesade Olatoye
 Nigeria
67.72 m Zouina Bouzebra
 Algeria
65.48 m
Javelin throw
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Jo-Ane van Dyk
 South Africa
57.03 m Jana van Schalkwyk
 South Africa
55.14 m Josephine Joyce Lalam
 Uganda
53.57 m
Heptathlon
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Odile Ahouanwanou
 Benin
5777 pts Adèle Mafogang [de]
 Cameroon
5527 pts Shannon Verster [de]
 South Africa
5239 pts

Mixed

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
4 × 400 metres relay
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 South Africa
Gardeo Isaacs
Shirley Nekhubui [de]
Mthi Mthimkulu [de]
Miranda Coetzee
3:13.12 CR NR  Nigeria
Ifeanyi Emmanuel Ojeli
Ella Onojuvwevwo
Dubem Nwachukwu
Patience Okon George
3:13.72  Botswana
Leungo Scotch
Obakeng Kamberuka [de]
Bayapo Ndori
Galefele Moroko
3:15.93

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Cameroon)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 South Africa (RSA)94619
2 Kenya (KEN)57719
3 Nigeria (NGR)56415
4 Ethiopia (ETH)54110
5 Algeria (ALG)3418
6 Liberia (LBR)3115
7 Senegal (SEN)3014
8 Botswana (BOT)2316
9 Ghana (GHA)2103
10 Uganda (UGA)2035
11 Egypt (EGY)1236
12 Djibouti (DJI)1124
 Ivory Coast (CIV)1124
14 Burkina Faso (BUR)1102
15 Benin (BEN)1001
 Gambia (GAM)1001
17 Cameroon (CMR)*0336
18 Morocco (MAR)0213
 Zambia (ZAM)0213
20 Zimbabwe (ZIM)0202
21 Namibia (NAM)0112
22 Tunisia (TUN)0101
23 Central African Republic (CAF)0011
 Guinea (GUI)0011
 Madagascar (MAD)0011
 Malawi (MAW)0011
 Mali (MLI)0011
Totals (27 entries)454643134

Participating nations

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See Also

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References

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  1. ^ Yomi, Omogbeja (20 June 2024). "Coe delighted by strong proposals to host African Championships". athletics.africa. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
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