Athletics at the 2014 African Youth Games

The athletics competitions at the 2014 African Youth Games in Gaborone was held between 28 and 31 May at the Botswana National Stadium. The competition served as the qualification for the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics which took place in August in Nanjing, China.

Medal summary[]

Boys[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.1 m/s)	(RSA)	10.52	Sydney Siame (ZAM)	10.58	Baboloki Thebe (BOT)	10.65
200 metres (wind: +1.0 m/s)	Baboloki Thebe (BOT)	20.85	Brian Kasinda (ZAM)	21.02	(RSA)	21.07
400 metres	Karabo Sibanda (BOT)	46.77	(KEN)	47.20	(ETH)	47.46
800 metres	(KEN)	1:52.07	(BOT)	1:52.52	(ZAM)	1:53.09
1500 metres	(KEN)	3:45.39	(ETH)	3:46.84	Mostafa Smaili (MAR)	3:47.99
3000 metres	Yomif Kejelcha (ETH)	7:56.51	(KEN)	8:05.22	Thiery Ndikumwenayo (BDI)	8:17.93
110 metres hurdles (91.4 cm) (wind: +0.1 m/s)	(NGR)	13.98	Amine Bouanani (ALG)	14.09	(ETH)	14.25
400 metres hurdles (84.0 cm)	(TUN)	51.52	(KEN)	52.76	(SEY)	53.27
2000 m steeplechase	(ETH)	5:35.86	(MAR)	5:37.63	Amos Kirui (KEN)	5:39.23
10,000 m track walk	(ETH)	45:30.61	(ALG)	46:48.67	(RSA)	47:02.26
High jump	(ALG)	2.02	(ETH)	1.99	(NAM)	1.99
Pole vault	(TUN)	4.20	Not awarded		Not awarded
Long jump	Yasser Triki (ALG)	7.63	(NGR)	7.24	(MAR)	7.23
Triple jump	(NGR)	15.93	(GHA)	15.43	Yasser Triki (ALG)	15.23
Shot put (5 kg)	Jason van Rooyen (RSA)	21.02	(EGY)	19.95	(ALG)	19.91
Discus throw (1.5 kg)	(EGY)	57.62	(LBA)	55.32	Jason van Rooyen (RSA)	54.22
Hammer throw (5 kg)	(EGY)	77.76	(TUN)	61.18	(MRI)	38.99
Javelin throw (700 g)	(EGY)	71.84	(ETH)	66.59	(LBA)	55.47

Girls[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Mercy Ntia-Obong (NGR)	12.00	(GHA)	12.03	Prenam Pesse (TOG)	12.34
200 metres	Praise Idamadudu (NGR)	24.16	(KEN)	24.20	(ETH)	24.40
400 metres	(ETH)	52.40	Edidiong Odiong (NGR)	53.64	Galefele Moroko (BOT)	56.01
800 metres	(ETH)	2:06.74	(KEN)	2:08.00	Martha Bissah (GHA)	2:09.50
1500 metres	(ETH)	4:24.94	(KEN)	4:26.81	(ZIM)	4:33.91
3000 metres	(ETH)	9:18.97	(KEN)	9:22.34	Cavaline Nahimana (BDI)	9:24.51
100 metres hurdles (76.2 cm) (wind: -1.4 m/s)	(RSA)	13.58	Oluwatobiloba Amusan (NGR)	13.92	Lina Ahmed (EGY)	14.04
400 metres hurdles	(RSA)	1:00.10	(NGR)	1:00.40	(SUD)	1:00.40
2000 m steeplechase	Rosefline Chepngetich (KEN)	6:21.81	(ETH)	6:24.59	(MAR)	6:56.09
5000 m track walk	(ETH)	24:54.01	(TUN)	25:12.43	(MAR)	32:18.29
High jump	(EGY)	1.75	(ALG)	1.70	(NAM)	1.65
Pole vault	(ALG)	2.90	(MAR)	2.80	Not awarded
Long jump	(EGY)	5.95	(RSA)	5.72	(ETH)	5.67
Triple jump	(ETH)	12.56	(ALG)	12.42	(EGY)	12.34
Shot put (3 kg)	(RSA)	15.72	(EGY)	13.90	(UGA)	12.75
Discus throw	(RSA)	47.08	(EGY)	46.15	(UGA)	34.51
Hammer throw (3 kg)	(EGY)	66.26	(RSA)	55.25	(ZIM)	27.68
Javelin throw (500 g)	Jo-Ane van Dyk (RSA)	47.62	(ETH)	46.35	(EGY)	41.60

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Botswana)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ethiopia (ETH)	9	5	4	18
2	South Africa (RSA)	7	2	3	12
3	Egypt (EGY)	6	3	3	12
4	Nigeria (NGR)	4	4	0	8
5	Kenya (KEN)	3	7	1	11
6	Algeria (ALG)	3	4	2	9
7	Tunisia (TUN)	2	2	0	4
8	Botswana (BOT)*	2	1	2	5
9	Morocco (MAR)	0	2	4	6
10	Ghana (GHA)	0	2	1	3
	Zambia (ZAM)	0	2	1	3
12	Libya (LBA)	0	1	1	2
13	Burundi (BDI)	0	0	2	2
	Namibia (NAM)	0	0	2	2
	Uganda (UGA)	0	0	2	2
	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	0	2	2
17	Mauritius (MRI)	0	0	1	1
	Seychelles (SEY)	0	0	1	1
	Sudan (SUD)	0	0	1	1
	Togo (TOG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 nations)		36	35	34	105

References[]

• Official results (archived)
• Results