2015 African Youth Athletics Championships

2nd African Youth Athletics Championships
2nd African Youth Athletics Championships
Dates	23–26 April
Host city	Reduit, Mauritius
Venue
Level	Youth
Events	38
Participation	27 nations
	← 2013 → ;

The 2015 African Youth Athletics Championships was the second edition of the biennial athletics competition for African athletes aged fifteen to seventeen, It was held in Reduit, Mauritius from 23–26 April.^[1] Mauritius had hosted the 2013 African Junior Athletics Championships two years earlier. A total of 38 events, 18 by boys and 20 by girls, were contested at the competition.

South Africa topped the medals table with seventeen gold medals and 29 medals overall. This marked a great improvement from the inaugural edition in 2013, having missed that event due to a lack of funding.^[2] Nigeria who were the previous host only managed to confirm participation due to a late intervention by an anonymous sponsor.^[3] The next most successful countries were Kenya (eight golds and 19 in total) and Nigeria (six medals, two of them gold). South Africa won all but one of the gold medals in the throws. Kenya won all the long-distance events at the championships. Eighteen of the twenty-seven participating nations reached the medal table.^[4] The host nation Mauritius took one gold medal, through octathlete , and ended with a total of seven medals.

As had happened at the 2013 edition, doubles were achieved in both 100 metres and 200 metres sprints: Gift Leotlela of South Africa topped the boys' rankings and his teammate took the girls' titles. A third athlete managed a double in the rest of the competition – , also of South Africa, won both the girls' hurdling events.

Medal summary[]

Boys[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +2.2 m/s)	Tlotliso Leotlela (RSA)	10.38	(RSA)	10.49	(ZIM)	10.52
200 metres	Tlotliso Leotlela (RSA)	20.84	(BOT)	21.43	(GAM)	21.68
400 metres	Karabo Sibanda (BOT)	47.40	(KEN)	48.18	(RSA)	48.41
800 metres	Kipyegon Bett (KEN)	1:51.67	(KEN)	1:52.14	(GAM)	1:52.88
1500 metres	(KEN)	3:44.35	(KEN)	3:46.22	(ERI)	3:48.49
3000 metres	(KEN)	7:56.29	Richard Yator (KEN)	7:56.33	(ERI)	8:18.75
110 metres hurdles (wind: +2.4 m/s)	(RSA)	13.38 w	(RSA)	13.62 w	(MRI)	14.65 w
400 metres hurdles	(KEN)	52.28	(RSA)	52.43	(KEN)	53.45
2000 metres steeplechase	(KEN)	5:37.05	(KEN)	5:41.28	(COM)	6:13.77
Medley relay	South Africa (RSA) Tlotliso Leotlela	1:53.60	Botswana (BOT) Karabo Sibanda	1:54.10	Gambia (GAM)	1:55.17
10,000 metres walk	(RSA)	46:09.53	Abdelrahman Mahmoud (EGY)	48:23.65	(ALG)	51:58.55
High jump	(BOT)	2.04 m	(SEY)	2.01 m	(NAM)	1.98 m
Long jump	(MAR)	7.41 m	(NGR)	7.38 m	(MAR)	7.31 m
Triple jump	(KEN)	15.04 m	(NGR)	14.89 m	(MAR)	14.66 m
Shot put	(RSA)	20.89 m	(EGY)	19.87 m	(RSA)	19.80 m
Discus throw	Werner Visser (RSA)	64.88 m CR	(RSA)	60.61 m	(EGY)	58.31 m
Javelin throw	(RSA)	72.68 m	Paul Botha (RSA)	71.48 m	Nico Horn (NAM)	65.08 m
Octathlon	(MRI)	5363 pts	(MRI)	5203 pts	(EGY)	4995 pts

Girls[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(RSA)	11.87	(KEN)	12.53	(MRI)	12.80
200 metres	(RSA)	23.59	Praise Idamadudu (NGR)	23.79	(RSA)	24.01
400 metres	(ZAM)	58.08	(ZIM)	59.03	(NAM)	59.07
800 metres	(RSA)	2:10.79	(KEN)	2:10.94	(RWA)	2:13.26
1500 metres	Beatha Nishimwe (RWA)	4:17.37	(UGA)	4:17.61	(KEN)	4:21.87
3000 metres	(KEN)	9:10.57 CR	Sheila Chelangat (KEN)	9:11.38	(UGA)	9:15.38
100 metres hurdles	(RSA)	13.30	(MAR)	14.47	(SEN)	15.23
400 metres hurdles	(RSA)	59.22	(MAR)	61.23	(RSA)	61.40
2000 metres steeplechase	(KEN)	6:20.47	(MAR)	7:06.59	(KEN)	7:29.09
Medley relay	Nigeria (NGR) Aniekeme Alphonsus Praise Idamadudu	2:08.71	South Africa (RSA)	2:11.21	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	2:20.17
5000 metres walk	(NGR)	25:20.28	(EGY)	30:55.11	(MRI)	36:53.44
High jump	(ALG)	1.69 m	(NAM)	1.63 m	(MAR)	1.60 m
Pole vault	(ALG)	3.20 m	(EGY)	3.15 m	(ALG)	2.80 m
Long jump	(RSA)	5.92 m	Aniekeme Alphonsus (NGR)	5.50 m	(SEN)	5.40 m
Triple jump	(SEN)	12.06 m	(MRI)	11.64 m	(RWA)	9.37 m
Shot put	(RSA)	14.95 m	(EGY)	14.12 m	(MAR)	13.26 m
Discus throw	(RSA)	42.95 m	(MAR)	41.20 m	(RSA)	40.94 m
Hammer throw	(EGY)	55.25 m	(EGY)	54.46 m	(MAR)	50.40 m
Javelin throw	(RSA)	49.72 m	(EGY)	48.94 m	(RSA)	46.89 m
Heptathlon	(NAM)	4733 pts	(MAR)	3983 pts	(MRI)	3603 pts

Medal table[]

Host nation


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa (RSA)	17	6	6	29
2	Kenya (KEN)	8	9	2	19
3	Nigeria (NGR)	2	4	0	6
4	Botswana (BOT)	2	2	0	4
5	Algeria (ALG)	2	0	2	4
6	Egypt (EGY)	1	8	2	11
7	Morocco (MAR)	1	3	6	10
8	Mauritius (MRI)*	1	2	4	7
9	Namibia (NAM)	1	1	3	5
10	Rwanda (RWA)	1	0	2	3
10	Senegal (SEN)	1	0	2	3
12	Zambia (ZAM)	1	0	0	1
13	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	1	2	3
14	Uganda (UGA)	0	1	1	2
15	Seychelles (SEY)	0	1	0	1
16	Gambia (GAM)	0	0	3	3
17	Eritrea (ERI)	0	0	2	2
18	Comoros (COM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 nations)		38	38	38	114

References[]

^ Mauritius, the host country for Youth championships Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Confederation of African Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-04-30.
^ 26/03/2013 1st African Youth Championships, Warri 2013 Archived 2013-09-14 at archive.today. CAA (2013-03-26). Retrieved on 2013-09-14.
^ AYAC: Kenyan rescues Nigerian athletes. Vanguard (2015-04-23). Retrieved on 2015-04-30.
^ Kenya and South Africa impress at African Youth Championships. IAAF (2015-04-27). Retrieved on 2015-04-30.

Results

Media Publications. COCAD 15. Retrieved on 2015-04-30.
Complete Results Boys. COCAD 15. Retrieved on 2015-04-30.
Complete Results Girls. COCAD 15. Retrieved on 2015-04-30.
Official Medal Table. COCAD 15. Retrieved on 2015-04-30.
AFRICAN YOUTH CHAMPS RESULTS. AllAthletics.co.za (2015-04-27). Retrieved on 2015-04-30.

External links[]

Official website

[1] Mauritius, the host country for Youth championships Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Confederation of African Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-04-30.

[2] 26/03/2013 1st African Youth Championships, Warri 2013 Archived 2013-09-14 at archive.today. CAA (2013-03-26). Retrieved on 2013-09-14.

[3] AYAC: Kenyan rescues Nigerian athletes. Vanguard (2015-04-23). Retrieved on 2015-04-30.

[4] Kenya and South Africa impress at African Youth Championships. IAAF (2015-04-27). Retrieved on 2015-04-30.

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