2017 African U20 Championships in Athletics

13th African U20 Championships
Dates	29 June–2 July
Host city	Tlemcen, Algeria
Venue
Level	Under-20
Events	43
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The 2017 African Junior Athletics Championships was the thirteenth edition of the biennial, continental athletics tournament for African athletes aged 19 years or younger. It was held at the in Tlemcen, Algeria, between 29 June and 2 July.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: +2.8 m/s)	(RSA)	10.41	(ZIM)	10.50	Sharry Dodin (SEY)	10.58
200 metres (Wind: +1.1 m/s)	Clarence Munyai (RSA)	20.22 CR	(ZIM)	21.11	(ZIM)	21.14
400 metres	(ETH)	47.65	(BOT)	47.83	(ETH)	48.87
800 metres	(KEN)	1:48.04	(ETH)	1:48.76	(ETH)	1:49.15
1500 metres	(ETH)	3:44.39	(KEN)	3:44.78	(ETH)	3:45.56
5000 metres	Selemon Barega (ETH)	13:51.43	(ETH)	13:52.91	Nicholas Kimeli (KEN)	13:54.24
10,000 metres	Nicholas Kimeli (KEN)	29:52.15	(ETH)	29:52.20	(ETH)	30:13.95
110 metres hurdles (Wind: +2.4 m/s)	(RSA)	13.78	Louis François Mendy (SEN)	14.24	(ETH)	14.27
400 metres hurdles	(ETH)	53.51	(MAR)	54.50	(BOT)	55.03
3000 metres steeplechase	Takele Nigate (ETH)	8:31.36	Tesfaye Deriba (ETH)	8:33.67	(KEN)	8:42.15
4×100 metres relay	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	40.64	Gambia (GAM)	41.07	Algeria (ALG)	41.34
4×400 metres relay	Ethiopia (ETH)	3:11.89	Botswana (BOT)	3:16.64	Morocco (MAR)	3:18.08
10,000 m walk	(ETH)	44:43.47	(TUN)	44:43.47	(ALG)	45:37.41
High jump	(TUN)	2.00 m	(BOT)	1.90 m	(ETH)	1.90 m
Pole vault	(ALG)	4.30 m	(ALG)	4.00 m	(TUN)	3.20 m
Long jump	(MAR)	7.36 m	(MAR)	7.33 m	(RSA)	7.10 m
Triple jump	(ZIM)	16.30 m CR	(ETH)	15.65 m	(MAR)	15.13 m
Shot put	(RSA)	20.08 m	(RSA)	18.31 m	(ETH)	17.02 m
Discus throw	(RSA)	59.46 m	Werner Visser (RSA)	58.70 m	(MAR)	50.61 m
Hammer throw	(RSA)	68.91 m	(ALG)	59.65 m	(MAR)	56.53 m
Javelin throw	(RSA)	72.75 m	(RSA)	72.74 m	(ETH)	68.49 m
Decathlon	(TUN)	5770 pts	(ALG)	5709 pts	(ALG)	5129 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: +0.9 m/s)	(ZIM)	12.08	(MRI)	12.44	(ETH)	12.45
200 metres (Wind: +0.5 m/s)	(GAM)	24.60	(ETH)	24.71	(ZIM)	24.71
400 metres	(ETH)	54.43	(ETH)	55.45	(ZIM)	56.88
800 metres	(ETH)	2:05.85	(KEN)	2:06.48	(MAR)	2:08.26
1500 metres	(KEN)	4:30.57	Fantu Worku (ETH)	4:30.76	(ETH)	4:31.59
3000 metres	(KEN)	9:27.11	(KEN)	9:27.59	(ETH)	9:28.10
5000 metres	(ETH)	15:37.13	(KEN)	15:41.64	(ETH)	15:49.63
100 metres hurdles	(RSA)	13.82	(ALG)	13.98	(ETH)	15.03
400 metres hurdles	(MAR)	60.62	(ETH)	61.18	(ALG)	63.16
3000 metres steeplechase	Mekides Abebe (ETH)	10:11.80	(ETH)	10:12.83	Only 2 competitors
4×100 metres relay	Algeria (ALG)	48.44	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	51.19	Only 2 teams competing
4×400 metres relay	Ethiopia (ETH)	3:48.19	Algeria (ALG)	4:03.09	Only 2 teams competing
10,000 m walk	(ETH)	52:14.73	Yehualeye Beletew (ETH)	52:15.14	(ALG)	53:49.98
High jump	(RSA)	1.74 m	(MAR)	1.68 m	(ALG)	1.65 m
Pole vault	(ALG)	2.80 m	(ALG)	2.60 m	Only two finishers
Long jump	(ALG)	6.02 m	(MAR)	5.68 m	(BUR)	5.41 m
Triple jump	(BUR)	12.55 m (w)	(ETH)	11.94 m	(SEN)	11.91 m
Shot put	(RSA)	13.15 m	(RSA)	12.72 m	(ALG)	11.68 m
Discus throw	(RSA)	49.13 m	(ALG)	38.17 m	(ALG)	35.05 m
Hammer throw	(MAR)	56.29 m	(MRI)	45.55 m	(TUN)	43.94 m
Heptathlon	(RSA)	4850 pts	(ALG)	4552 pts	(TUN)	3718 pts

Medal table[]

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Key

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ethiopia (ETH)	13	13	12	38
2	South Africa (RSA)	12	4	1	17
3	Algeria (ALG)*	4	8	8	20
4	Kenya (KEN)	4	4	2	10
5	Morocco (MAR)	3	4	5	12
6	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	3	3	3	9
7	Tunisia (TUN)	2	1	3	6
8	Gambia (GAM)	1	1	0	2
9	Burkina Faso (BUR)	1	0	1	2
10	Botswana (BOT)	0	3	1	4
11	Mauritius (MRI)	0	2	0	2
12	Senegal (SEN)	0	1	1	2
13	Seychelles (SEY)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		43	44	38	125

References[]

• Official site (archived)

Results

• Official results (archived)
• Results