1992 African Championships in Athletics

The 1992 African Championships in Athletics were held between 25 and 28 June 1992 in Belle Vue Maurel, Pamplemousses District, Mauritius at the Stade Anjalay.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.5 m/s)	Victor Omagbemi  Nigeria	10.34	Charles-Louis Seck  Senegal	10.40	South Africa	10.43
200 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Victor Omagbemi  Nigeria	21.20	Emmanuel Tuffour  Ghana	21.28	John Myles-Mills  Ghana	21.31
400 metres	Bobang Phiri  South Africa	45.42	Kennedy Ochieng  Kenya	46.23	Kenya	46.62
800 metres	Charles Nkazamyampi  Burundi	1:46.95	South Africa	1:47.19	Mahjoub Haïda  Morocco	1:47.71
1500 metres	Kenya	3:38.52	South Africa	3:38.60	Kenya	3:39.18
5000 metres	James Songok  Kenya	13:24.63	Worku Bikila  Ethiopia	13:25.98	Josphat Machuka  Kenya	13:28.85
10,000 metres	Josphat Machuka  Kenya	27:59.70	Matthews Motshwarateu  South Africa	28:22.57	Xolile Yawa  South Africa	28:27.82
3000 metre steeplechase	Whaddon Niewoudt  South Africa	8:26.44	Kenya	8:26.68	Eliud Barngetuny  Kenya	8:38.02
110 metres hurdles (wind: +1.4 m/s)	Judex Lefou  Mauritius	13.91 CR	South Africa	13.92	South Africa	13.98
400 metres hurdles	Dries Vorster  South Africa	49.66	Amadou Dia Bâ  Senegal	49.71	Madagascar	50.56
4 × 100 metres relay	South Africa	39.57	Senegal	39.60	Nigeria	39.73
4 × 400 metres relay	South Africa Dries Vorster Bobang Phiri	3:06.95	Senegal	3:07.77	Kenya	3:08.37
20 kilometre road walk	South Africa	1:29:56	South Africa	1:30:54	South Africa	1:31:59
High jump	Yacine Mousli  Algeria	2.21 CR	Othmane Belfaa  Algeria	2.16	Khemraj Naiko  Mauritius	2.16
Pole vault	Okkert Brits  South Africa	5.35 CR	Kersley Gardenne  Mauritius	5.30	Riaan Botha  South Africa	5.20
Long jump	Ayodele Aladefa  Nigeria	7.95	François Fouché  South Africa	7.91	Danny Beauchamp  Seychelles	7.86
Triple jump	Toussaint Rabenala  Madagascar	17.04	Francis Dodoo  Ghana	16.43	Senegal	16.23
Shot put	Chima Ugwu  Nigeria	18.50	Morocco	17.49	Adewale Olukoju  Nigeria	17.06
Discus throw	Adewale Olukoju  Nigeria	60.66	Mohamed Naguib Hamed  Egypt	57.12	South Africa	55.72
Hammer throw	Hakim Toumi  Algeria	69.80	Egypt	68.08	South Africa	63.14
Javelin throw	Tom Petranoff  South Africa	87.26 CR	South Africa	81.60	Phillip Spies  South Africa	73.80
Decathlon	Mourad Mahour Bacha  Algeria	7467 CR	Mauritius	6803	Mauritius	6798

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.7 m/s)	Elinda Vorster  South Africa	11.26	Marcel Winkler  South Africa	11.31	Rufina Uba  Nigeria	11.42
200 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Elinda Vorster  South Africa	23.60	Marcel Winkler  South Africa	23.60	South Africa	24.11
400 metres	Omotayo Akinremi  Nigeria	52.53	Aïssatou Tandian  Senegal	52.64	Omolade Akinremi  Nigeria	53.14
800 metres	Zewde Haile Mariam  Ethiopia	2:06.20	Morocco	2:07.40	South Africa	2:07.48
1500 metres	Elana Meyer  South Africa	4:18.44	Gwen Griffiths  South Africa	4:20.79	Morocco	4:23.22
3000 metres	Derartu Tulu  Ethiopia	9:01.12	Gwen Griffiths  South Africa	9:03.10	Getenesh Urge  Ethiopia	9:03.32
10,000 metres	Derartu Tulu  Ethiopia	31:32.25	Lydia Cheromei  Kenya	31:41.09	Luchia Yishak  Ethiopia	32:28.86
100 metres hurdles (wind: +0.3 m/s)	Ime Akpan  Nigeria	13.14	Karen van der Veen  South Africa	13.29	South Africa	13.70
400 metres hurdles	Myrtle Bothma  South Africa	56.02	Morocco	57.31	Omolade Akinremi  Nigeria	57.43
4 × 100 metres relay	South Africa Karen Botha Marcel Winkler Elinda Vorster	44.53	Nigeria	45.19	Madagascar Monica Rahanitraniriana Hanitriniaina Rakotrondrabe Nicole Ramalalanirina Lalao Ravaonirina	45.38
4 × 400 metres relay	Nigeria Omolade Akinremi Omotayo Akinremi T. Akinremi Airat Bakare	3:33.13	South Africa Marcel Winkler Myrtle Bothma	3:36.19	Mauritius	3:42.68
5000 metre track walk	Algeria	24:57.02	Mauritius	25:11.95	South Africa	25:45.64
High jump	Lucienne N'Da  Ivory Coast	1.95	Charmaine Weavers  South Africa	1.92	Desiré du Plessis  South Africa	1.86
Long jump	Karen Botha  South Africa	6.78	Nigeria	5.98	South Africa	5.98
Triple jump	Awa Dioum-Ndiaye  Senegal	12.47	Kenya	12.41	Sonya Agbéssi  Benin	12.17
Shot put	Morocco	15.82	Hanan Ahmed Khaled  Egypt	15.49	Kenya	14.77
Discus throw	Lizette Etsebeth  South Africa	54.84	South Africa	53.40	Zoubida Laayouni  Morocco	52.74
Javelin throw	Seraphina Nyauma  Kenya	53.02	Liezl Roux  South Africa	52.42	Rhona Dwinger  South Africa	51.28
Heptathlon	South Africa	5056	Kenya	4994	Ivory Coast	4977

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa (SAF)	16	16	15	47
2	Nigeria (NGR)	8	2	5	15
3	Kenya (KEN)	4	5	6	15
4	Algeria (ALG)	4	1	0	5
5	Ethiopia (ETH)	3	1	2	6
6	Senegal (SEN)	1	5	1	7
7	Mauritius (MRI)	1	3	3	7
	Morocco (MAR)	1	3	3	7
9	Madagascar (MAD)	1	0	2	3
10	Ivory Coast (CIV)	1	0	1	2
11	Burundi (BDI)	1	0	0	1
12	Egypt (EGY)	0	3	0	3
13	Ghana (GHA)	0	2	1	3
14	Benin (BEN)	0	0	1	1
	Seychelles (SEY)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		41	41	41	123

See also[]

• 1992 in athletics (track and field)

External links[]

• Results – GBR Athletics