Athletics at the 2015 African Games

Athletics at the XI African Games
Athletics at the XI African Games
Dates	13–17 September
Host city	Brazzaville, Congo
Venue	New Kintele Stadium
Events	74
Participation	564 athletes from ; 48 nations
	← 2011 Maputo 2019 Rabat → ; 2015 African Games

The athletics competition at the 2015 African Games was held from 13–17 September 2015 at the New Kintele Stadium in Brazzaville, in the Republic of Congo.^[1]

The original winners of the long jump competitions, Chinaza Amadi and Samson Idiata of Nigeria, failed drugs tests at the competition and were disqualified.^[2]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Ben Youssef Meïté (CIV)	10.04 NR	Ogho-Oghene Egwero (NGR)	10.17	Hua Wilfried Koffi (CIV)	10.23
200 metres details	Hua Wilfried Koffi (CIV)	20.42	Divine Oduduru (NGR)	20.45	Tega Odele (NGR)	20.58
400 metres details	Isaac Makwala (BOT)	44.35	Boniface Mweresa (KEN)	45.01	Onkabetse Nkobolo (BOT)	45.50
800 metres details	Nijel Amos (BOT)	1:50.45	Taoufik Makhloufi (ALG)	1:50.72	Job Kinyor (KEN)	1:50.79
1500 metres details	Mekonnen Gebremedhin (ETH)	3:45.73	Abdi Waiss Mouhyadin (DJI)	3:45.98	Salim Keddar (ALG)	3:46.31
5000 metres details	Getaneh Molla (ETH)	13:21.88	(ETH)	13:22.13	Thomas Longosiwa (KEN)	13:22.72
10,000 metres details	(ETH)	27:27.19	Leonard Barsoton (KEN)	27:27.55	(ETH)	27:28.40
110 metres hurdles details	Antonio Alkana (RSA)	13.32 GR	(ALG)	13.49	Tyron Akins (NGA)	13.54
400 metres hurdles details	Abdelmalik Lahoulou (ALG)	48.67	Miloud Rahmani (ALG)	49.27	Mohamed Sghaier (TUN)	49.32
3000 metres steeplechase details	(KEN)	8:20.31	(KEN)	8:22.96 SB	Hailemariyam Amare (ETH)	8:24.19 SB
4 × 100 metres relay details	Christopher Naliali Hua Wilfried Koffi Arthur Cissé Ben Youssef Meïté	38.93	Even Tjiviju Hitjivirue Kaanjuka Dantago Gurirab Jesse Urikhob	39.22	Ghana Daniel Gyasi Solomon Afful Emmanuel Dasor Shepard Agbeko	39.71
4 × 400 metres relay details	Kenya Raymond Kibet Alex Sampao Kiprono Koskei Boniface Mweresa	3:00.34 GR	Onkabetse Nkobolo Nijel Amos Leaname Maotoanong Isaac Makwala	3:00.95	Algeria Miloud Rahmani Abdelmalik Lahoulou	3:03.07
20 kilometres walk details	Lebogang Shange (RSA)	1:26.43	Samuel Ireri Gathimba (KEN)	1:26.44	Wayne Snyman (RSA)	1:27.32
Half marathon details	Zersenay Tadese (ERI)	1:03.11	(KEN)	1:03.27	Hizkel Tewelde (ERI)	1:03.39
High jump details	Kabelo Kgosiemang (BOT)	2.25	Ali Mohd Younes Idriss (SUD)	2.22	Chris Moleya (RSA)	2.22
Pole vault details	Hichem Khalil Cherabi (ALG)	5.25	(GHA)	5.20	(TUN)	5.10
Long jump details	Ndiss Kaba Badji (SEN)	7.74	Mamadou Gueye (SEN)	7.69	Romeo N'tia (BEN)	7.44
Triple jump details	Tosin Oke (NGA)	17.00	Olumide Olamigoke (NGA)	16.98	Mamadou Chérif Dia (MLI)	16.54
Shot put details	Franck Elemba (CGO)	20.25 GR, NR	Mohamed Magdi Hamza (EGY)	19.78	Jaco Engelbrecht (RSA)	19.55
Discus throw details	Russell Tucker (RSA)	60.41	(TOG)	52.72 NR	Franck Elemba (CGO)	50.30
Hammer throw details	Mostafa Al-Gamel (EGY)	74.92	Chris Harmse (RSA)	73.49	(MRI)	59.36
Javelin throw details	Ihab El-Sayed (EGY)	85.37 GR	John Ampomah (GHA)	82.94	Phil-Mar van Rensburg (RSA)	76.85
Decathlon details	Guillaume Thierry (MRI)	7591 NR	Atsu Nyamadi (GHA)	7478	Fredriech Pretorius (RSA)	7186

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Marie-Josée Ta Lou (CIV)	11.02 GR	(KEN)	11.47 NR	Pon Karidjatou Traore (BFA) Adeline Gouenon (CIV)	11.49
200 metres details	Marie-Josée Ta Lou (CIV)	22.57	Ngozi Onwumere (NGR)	23.24	Lawretta Ozoh (NGR)	23.37
400 metres details	Kabange Mupopo (ZAM)	50.22 NR	Patience Okon George (NGR)	50.71	Tjipekapora Herunga (NAM)	51.55
800 metres details	Caster Semenya (RSA)	2:00.97	(KEN)	2:01.54	(ETH)	2:01.59
1500 metres details	Dawit Seyaum (ETH)	4:16.69	Beso Sado (ETH)	4:18.86	Beatrice Chepkoech (KEN)	4:19.16
5000 metres details	Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi (KEN)	15:30.15	Rosemary Monica Wanjiru (KEN)	15:30.18	Alice Aprot Nawowuna (KEN)	15:31.82 SB
10,000 metres details	Alice Aprot Nawowuna (KEN)	31:24.18	Gladys Kiptagelai (KEN)	31:36.87	Gelete Burka (ETH)	31:38.33
100 metres hurdles details	Oluwatobiloba Amusan (NGR)	13.15	Gnima Faye (SEN)	13.28	Lindsay Lindley (NGR)	13.30
400 metres hurdles details	Amaka Ogoegbunam (NGR)	55.86	Ajoke Odumosu (NGR)	57.63	(NAM)	58.68 NR
3000 metres steeplechase details	Sofia Assefa (ETH)	9:51.30	Hiwot Ayalew (ETH)	9:51.94	Purity Cherotich (KEN)	9:52.54
4 × 100 metres relay details	Nigeria Cecilia Francis Blessing Okagbare Ngozi Onwumere Lawretta Ozoh	43.10	Ghana Flings Owusu-Agyapong Gemma Acheampong Beatrice Gyaman Janet Amponsah	43.72	Roswita Okou Adeline Gouenon Marie-Josée Ta Lou	43.98
4 × 400 metres relay details	Nigeria Funke Oladoye Tosin Adeloye Patience Okon George	3:27.12	Lydia Mashila Goitseone Seleka Galefele Moroko Christine Botlogetswe	3:32.84	Kenya Hellen Syombua Winnie Chebet	3:35.91
20 kilometres walk details	Grace Wanjiru Njue (KEN)	1:38.28 GR	Aynalem Eshetu Shefrawe (ETH)	1:36.49	Askale Tiksa (ETH)	1:42.25
Half marathon details	Mamitu Deska (ETH)	1:12.42	Worknesh Degefa (ETH)	1:12.42	Yebergal Melese (ETH)	1:12.42
High jump details	Lissa Labiche (SEY)	1.91	Doreen Amata (NGA)	1.85	Julia du Plessis (RSA)	1.80
Pole vault details	Syrine Ebondo (TUN)	4.10 GR	Dorra Mahfoudhi (TUN)	4.10 =GR	Sinaly Ouattara (CIV)	3.40
Long jump details	Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin (CMR)	6.31	(ALG)	6.30	Lissa Labiche (SEY)	6.25
Triple jump details	Joëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin (CMR)	13.75	(NGA)	13.52	Nadia Eke (GHA)	13.40 NR
Shot put details	Auriole Dongmo (CMR)	17.13	(NGR)	16.64	(RSA)	15.92
Discus throw details	(NGR)	54.25	Ischke Senekal (RSA)	50.53	Julia Agawu (GHA)	49.08
Hammer throw details	Lætitia Bambara (BFA)	66.91 GR	Amy Sène (SEN)	63.94	Jennifer Batu (CGO)	62.13 NR
Javelin throw details	Kelechi Nwanaga (NGR)	52.70	Zuta Mary Nartey (GHA)	50.93	Jo-Ane van Dyk (RSA)	50.52
Heptathlon details	Uhunoma Osazuwa (NGR)	5892	Odile Ahouanwanou (BEN)	5734	Marthe Koala (BUR)	5664

Para-sport[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m T11	Ananias Shikongo (NAM)	11.45	(NGA)	11.63	(CMR)	11.84
100m T37	Fanie van der Merwe (RSA)	11.60	Sofiane Hamdi (ALG)	12.36	Oumar Sidibe (MLI)	12.81
100m T54	(TUN)	14.88	Raphael Botsyo Nkegbe (GHA)	15.24	(ALG)	15.40
200m T11	Ananias Shikongo (NAM)	23.00	(NGA)	23.68	(ANG)	23.95
200m T12	Jonathan Ntutu (RSA)	22.47	Hilton Langenhoven (RSA)	22.69	(ALG)	22.99
400m T11	Ananias Shikongo (NAM)	51.63	(ANG)	52.74	Samwel Kimani (KEN)	53.19
400m T12	(KEN)	49.84	(TUN)	50.17	(ETH)	51.11
400m T13	Johannes Nambala (NAM)	48.49	(ALG)	48.68	(ETH)	49.61
400m T46	(RWA)	49.16	(NAM)	49.52	(CIV)	50.19
800m T54	Yassine Gharbi (TUN)	1:50.74	(GHA)	1:52.56	(TUN)	1:52.81
1500m T46	(ALG)	3:57.54	David Emong (UGA)	3:59.41	(KEN)	4:00.74
1500m T53/54	Yassine Gharbi (TUN)	3:36.91	(GHA)	3:37.95	(TUN)	3:38.32
Javelin Throw F42/44	Márcio Fernandes (CPV)	50.91	(ALG)	39.95	(NGR)	41.91
Javelin Throw F56/57	(SEN)	40.24	(EGY)	39.42	(EGY)	38.54
Discus Throw 43/44	(LBA)	41.70	Márcio Fernandes (CPV)	40.07	(NGA)	39.63
Discus Throw F54/56	(EGY)	37.95	(NGR)	29.73	(NGR)	28.69
Shot Put F42	Tyrone Pillay (RSA)	11.28	(LBA)	10.50	(RSA)	9.94
Shot Put F54/55	(CMR)	9.75	(ALG)	9.42	(NGR)	8.52
Shot Put F56/57^[3]	(NGR)	10.61	(NGR)	11.70	(ALG)	11.33

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m T11	Lovina Onyegbule (NGA)	12.64	(CIV)	12.94	(ANG)	13.12
100m T13	Christine Akullo (UGA)	13.34	(RSA)	13.58	(ZIM)	13.63
100m T37	Johanna Benson (NAM)	14.39	Neda Bahi (TUN)	14.64	none
200m T11	Lovina Onyegbule (NGR)	25.27	(CIV)	26.08	(NAM)	26.26
200m T12	Edmilsa Governo (MOZ)	25.62	Maria Muchavo (MOZ)	25.87	Najah Chouaya (TUN)	27.02
400m T13	(ALG)	59.62	(MOZ)	1:01.20	(RSA)	1:02.16
Javelin Throw F54/56	Hania Aidi (TUN)	16.94	Flora Ugwunwa (NGR)	13.93	Mariam Coulibaly (MLI)	12.97
Discus Throw F54/57	Flora Ugwunwa (NGR)	18.54	Nassima Saifi (ALG)	33.01	Njideka Iyiazi (NGR)	26.67
Shot Put F54-57	Nassima Saifi (ALG)	10.66	(ALG)	10.65	Njideka Iyiazi (NGR)	10.46

Medal tables[]

Elite competition[]

* Host nation (Congo)

*As of September 16, 2015*
Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Nigeria (NGR)	8	9	4	21
2	Ethiopia (ETH)	6	5	6	17
3	Kenya (KEN)	5	9	6	20
4	Ivory Coast (CIV)	5	0	4	9
5	South Africa (RSA)	4	2	8	14
6	Botswana (BOT)	3	2	1	6
7	Cameroon (CMR)	3	0	0	3
8	Algeria (ALG)	2	4	2	8
9	Egypt (EGY)	2	1	0	3
10	Senegal (SEN)	1	3	0	4
11	Tunisia (TUN)	1	1	2	4
12	Burkina Faso (BUR)	1	0	2	3
12	Congo (CGO)*	1	0	2	3
14	Eritrea (ERI)	1	0	1	2
	Mauritius (MRI)	1	0	1	2
	Seychelles (SEY)	1	0	1	2
17	Zambia (ZAM)	1	0	0	1
18	Ghana (GHA)	0	5	3	8
19	Namibia (NAM)	0	1	2	3
20	Benin (BEN)	0	1	1	2
21	Djibouti (DJI)	0	1	0	1
	Sudan (SUD)	0	1	0	1
	Togo (TOG)	0	1	0	1
24	Mali (MLI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 nations)		46	46	47	139

Para-sport competition[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Namibia (NAM)	5	1	1	7
2	Nigeria (NGR)	4	5	6	15
3	Tunisia (TUN)	4	2	3	9
4	Algeria (ALG)	3	6	3	12
5	South Africa (RSA)	3	2	2	7
6	Mozambique (MOZ)	1	2	0	3
7	Egypt (EGY)	1	1	1	3
8	Cape Verde (CPV)	1	1	0	2
	Libya (LBY)	1	1	0	2
	Uganda (UGA)	1	1	0	2
11	Kenya (KEN)	1	0	2	3
12	Cameroon (CMR)	1	0	1	2
13	Rwanda (RWA)	1	0	0	1
13	Senegal (SEN)	1	0	0	1
15	Ghana (GHA)	0	3	0	3
16	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	2	1	3
17	Angola (ANG)	0	1	2	3
18	Ethiopia (ETH)	0	0	2	2
18	Mali (MLI)	0	0	2	2
20	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 nations)		28	28	27	83

Participating nations[]

According to an unofficial count, there were 564 athletes from 48 nations participating in the elite competition.

Algeria (18)
Angola (1)
Benin (3)
Botswana (17)
Burkina Faso (10)
Burundi (2)
Cameroon (14)
Cape Verde (1)
Central African Republic (3)
Chad (5)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (9)
Djibouti (5)
Egypt (8)
Equatorial Guinea (2)
Eritrea (20)
Ethiopia (64)
Gambia (5)
Ghana (20)
Guinea (3)
Ivory Coast (11)
Kenya (61)
Lesotho (11)
Libya (1)
Madagascar (2)
Mali (7)
Mauritania (2)
Mauritius (14)
Mozambique (4)
Namibia (14)
Niger (2)
Nigeria (44)
Republic of the Congo (41)
Rwanda (4)
São Tomé and Príncipe (2)
Senegal (14)
Seychelles (5)
Sierra Leone (11)
Somalia (3)
South Africa (35)
South Sudan (7)
Sudan (13)
Swaziland (3)
Tanzania (4)
Togo (4)
Tunisia (8)
Uganda (9)
Zambia (11)
Zimbabwe (7)

References[]

^ "Schedule". COJA BRAZZAVILLE 2015. 1 September 2015. Archived from the original on 3 September 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
^ Doping ban shock for Nigeria. IOL (2016-01-24). Retrieved on 2016-01-24.
^ Ranking is based on athletes' disability

Reports

Mulkeen, Jon (2015-09-15). Ivorian sprint double for Meite and Ta Lou at All-African Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2017-03-22.
Minshull, Phil (2015-09-17). Kenya's 4x400m men finish off the All-Africa Games in style. IAAF. Retrieved on 2017-03-22.

External links[]

[1] "Schedule". COJA BRAZZAVILLE 2015. 1 September 2015. Archived from the original on 3 September 2015. Retrieved 2015-09-01.

[2] Doping ban shock for Nigeria. IOL (2016-01-24). Retrieved on 2016-01-24.

[3] Ranking is based on athletes' disability

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