1993 African Championships in Athletics
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The 9th African Championships in Athletics
African Championships in Athletics
The African Championships in Athletics is a continental athletics event organized by the Confederation of African Athletics. It is generally organised biennually, every other event is held same year as the Summer Olympics....

were held between 23 and 27 June 1993 in Durban
Durban
Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...

, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

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Men's events

100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Daniel Effiong
Daniel Effiong
Daniel Effiong is a retired male sprinter from Nigeria.He became African 100 metres and Universiade champion in 1993...


 Nigeria
10.39 Jean-Olivier Zirignon
Jean-Olivier Zirignon
Jean-Olivier Zirignon is a Côte d'Ivoire sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. He finished seventh in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1993 World Championships, together with teammates Ouattara Lagazane, Frank Waota and Ibrahim Meité.On the individual level, Zirignon won a silver medal at the...


 Côte d'Ivoire
10.53 Nelson Boateng
Nelson Boateng
Nelson Boateng is a retired Ghanaian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.He won the bronze medal at the 1989 African Championships. At the 1993 African Championships he won bronze medals both in the 100 and 200 metres. The same year he competed at the 1993 World Championships...


 Ghana
10.55
200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

Johan Rossouw
 South Africa
20.65 Oluyemi Kayode
Oluyemi Kayode
Oluyemi Kayode was a Nigerian sprinter.Kayode won the silver medal in 4 x 100 m relay at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, together with teammates Chidi Imoh, Olapade Adeniken and Davidson Ezinwa...


 Nigeria
20.79 Nelson Boateng
Nelson Boateng
Nelson Boateng is a retired Ghanaian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.He won the bronze medal at the 1989 African Championships. At the 1993 African Championships he won bronze medals both in the 100 and 200 metres. The same year he competed at the 1993 World Championships...


 Ghana
21.01
400 metres
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Kennedy Ochieng
Kennedy Ochieng
Kennedy Ochieng is a retired Kenyan sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-External links:*...


 Kenya
45.29 Ibrahim Hassan
Ibrahim Hassan
Ibrahim Hassan ; born 10 August 1966 in Cairo) is a retired Egyptian footballer.A right defender, he amassed well over 100 caps for Egypt. His twin brother, Hossam, also played professional football, and they shared clubs for most of their extensive careers....


 Ghana
45.90 Simon Kemboi
Simon Kemboi
Simon Kemboi is a retired sprinter from Kenya. He specialised in 400 metres. He is a World Championships and African Championships medalist, and competed at the Olympics.-Career:...


 Kenya
46.06
800 metres
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Sammy Langat
 Kenya
1:45.43 Paul Ruto
Paul Ruto
Paul Ruto is a former Kenyan 800 metres runner who won a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. Ruto took the lead in the first lap and kept it until the end. He was used to front-running, as earlier in his career, he had been employed as a pacemaker at international meetings.-...


 Kenya
1:45.99 Arthémon Hatungimana
Arthémon Hatungimana
Arthémon Hatungimana is a middle distance runner from Burundi. In 1995, he won a silver medal in 800 metres at the World Championships in Athletics.-Personal bests:*400 metres - 46.78 *800 metres - 1:43.38...


 Burundi
1:46.42
1500 metres
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

David Kibet
David Kibet
David Kibet is a former Kenyan middle distance runner who won a bronze medal at the African Championships 1990 over 1500 m. Kibet finished tenth in the 1992 Summer Olympics final and seventh in the 1991 World Championships. His greatest achievement was the victory in the Oslo Dream Mile 1992 where...


 Kenya
3:45.67 Johan Landsman
 South Africa
3:46.03 Johan Fourie
Johan Fourie
Johan Fourie is a South African middle-distance athlete who was one of the world's leading 1500m/mile exponents in the 1980s but was prevented from competing internationally in his prime by reason of the sporting sanctions imposed on South Africa in condemnation of the policy of apartheid.Fourie's...


 South Africa
3:46.22
5000 metres
5000 metres
The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...

Simon Chemoiywo
 Kenya
13:09.68 Haile Gebrselassie
Haile Gebrselassie
Haile Gebrselassie is an Ethiopian long-distance track and road running athlete. He won two Olympic gold medals over 10,000 metres and four World Championship titles in the event. He won the Berlin Marathon four times consecutively and also had three straight wins at the Dubai Marathon...


 Ethiopia
13:10.41 Worku Bikila
Worku Bikila
Worku Bikila is a retired Ethiopian long-distance runner, who specialized mainly in the 5000 metres. His 10,000 metres time of 27:06.44 minutes in 1995 was the second fastest time that year, only behind Haile Gebrselassie....


 Ethiopia
13:12.53
10000 metres
10000 metres
The 10,000 metres or 10K is a common long distance running event. As "10,000 metres" it is a track event, and appears in athletics events such as the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics; as "10K" it is a roadrace or cross country running event...

William Sigei
William Sigei
William Cheruiyot Sigei is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who won the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1993 and 1994. In 1994 he a set a new world record over 10,000 metres in Oslo with 26:52.23 minutes.Today he is ranked eighteenth of all times over 10,000 metres...


 Kenya
27:25.23 Fita Bayissa
 Ethiopia
27:26.90 Haile Gebrselassie
Haile Gebrselassie
Haile Gebrselassie is an Ethiopian long-distance track and road running athlete. He won two Olympic gold medals over 10,000 metres and four World Championship titles in the event. He won the Berlin Marathon four times consecutively and also had three straight wins at the Dubai Marathon...


 Ethiopia
27:30.17
3000 metre steeplechase Joseph Keter
Joseph Keter
Joseph Keter is a former Kenyan athlete, winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the 1996 Summer Olympics.Born in Lessos, Nandi District, Joseph Keter, an officer of Kenyan Army, had only one good season throughout his athletics career, which culminated with an Olympic gold medal.In Atlanta, the hot...


 Kenya
8:22.34 Christopher Kosgei
 Kenya
8:24.58 Simretu Alemayehu
Simretu Alemayehu
Simretu Alemayehu is a retired male long-distance runner from Ethiopia, who competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He set his personal best in the marathon on April 1, 2001 in Turin, Italy...


 Ethiopia
8:31.51
110 metres hurdles
110 metres hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

Kobus Schoeman
 South Africa
13.93 Moses Oyiki Orode
 Nigeria
14.21 Winpie Nel
 South Africa
14.22
400 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

Erick Keter
Erick Keter
Erick Keter is a retired Kenyan athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles. He has also been a Kenyan record holder during his career.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Kenya
49.38 Dries Vorster
 South Africa
49.59 Hamidou Mbaye
 Senegal
50.22
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Flippie van Vuuren
 South Africa
2.22 Khemraj Naiko
Khemraj Naiko
Khemraj Naiko is a retired Mauritian high jumper.His personal best jump is 2.28 metres, achieved at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. This is the Mauritian record.-Achievements:-References:...


 Mauritius
2.19 Pierre Vorster
 South Africa
2.13
Pole vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

Okkert Brits
Okkert Brits
Okkert Brits is a South African athlete competing in the pole vault. His current personal best of 6.03m, set in 1995, is also the African record. He has won numerous medals at international events. He has competed in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games finishing 7th in 2000...


 South Africa
5.40 Riaan Botha
Riaan Botha
Riaan Botha is a retired South African pole vaulter.His personal best is 5.91 metres, achieved in April 1997 in Pretoria. This places him second on the African all-time performers list, behind fellow South African Okkert Brits.-Achievements:-References:...


 South Africa
5.20 Brian Mardaymootoo
 Mauritius
4.60
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Obinna Eregbu
Obinna Eregbu
Obinna Eregbu is a retired Nigerian athlete who competed in the long jump. His name, Obinna, means "Father´s heart". He is best known for his gold medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games....


 Nigeria
8.32w Ayodele Aladefa
Ayodele Aladefa
Ayodele Aladefa is a Nigerian former long jumper.He attended the Abilene Christian University.-Achievements:-References:...


 Nigeria
8.05w James Sabulei
 Kenya
7.99
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

Toussaint Rabenala
Toussaint Rabenala
Toussaint Rabenala is a retired Malagasy triple jumper.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*Long jump - 7.77 metres - national record.*Triple jump - 17.05 metres - national record.-References:...


 Madagascar
16.72 Wikus Olivier
 South Africa
16.35 Paul Nioze
 Seychelles
16.11
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Carel le Roux
 South Africa
18.29 Chima Ugwu
Chima Ugwu
Chima Ugwu is a Nigerian shot putter. He also competes occasionally in discus throw.He competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics, and the World Championships in 1993, 1997 and 2003 without reaching the finals....


 Nigeria
18.07 Jaco Snyman
 South Africa
17.38
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Mickael Conjungo
Mickaël Conjungo
Mickaël Conjungo is a French discus thrower. He formerly represented his birth country of the Central African Republic....


 Central African Republic
59.92 Christo Kruger
 South Africa
54.42 Dawie Kok
 South Africa
54.08
Hammer throw
Hammer throw
The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

Hakim Toumi
Hakim Toumi
Hakim Toumi is a retired male hammer thrower from Algeria.Toumi twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1984 and 1988. He set his personal best distance of 74.76 metres on August 8, 1998 in Algiers.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Algeria
69.82 Samir Haouam
 Algeria
63.76 Charlie Koen
 South Africa
60.46
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Tom Petranoff
Tom Petranoff
Thomas Alan Petranoff is a former world record holder in the javelin throw; his May 1983 effort was greater than the length of an entire American football field at 99.72 meters . Tom Petranoff's world record added precisely three meters to the previous global standard of 96.72, set in 1980 by...


 South Africa
82.40 Phillip Spies
 South Africa
77.68 Louis Fouché
Louis Fouché
Louis A. Fouché is a South African athlete who competed in the 1938 British Empire Games.In 1936 he won the gold medal in the shot put event.-External links:*...


 South Africa
77.10
Decathlon
Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...

Pierre Faber
 South Africa
7164 Danie van Wyk
 South Africa
7108 Hassan Farouk Sayed
 Egypt
6770
20 kilometre road walk Getachew Demisse
 Ethiopia
1:28:56 Chris Britz
 South Africa
1:29:28 Riecus Blignouat
 South Africa
1:30:55
4 x 100 metres relay
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 Ghana 39.53  Nigeria 39.97  South Africa 40.25
4 x 400 metres relay
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...

 Kenya 3:03.10  Nigeria 3:06.03  Senegal 3:06.38

Women's events

100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Beatrice Utondu
Beatrice Utondu
Beatrice Utondu is a former sprinter from Nigeria who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992...


 Nigeria
11.39 Elinda Vorster
 South Africa
11.45 Christy Opara-Thompson
 Nigeria
11.60
200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

Mary Onyali
 Nigeria
22.71 Yolanda Steyn
 South Africa
23.22 Evette de Klerk
 South Africa
23.29
400 metres
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Tina Paulino
Tina Paulino
Tina Paulino is an 800 metres runner from Mozambique.- Early life :Born in Inhambane, Tina Paulino is a distant cousin of Maria de Lurdes Mutola. She started competing in 1992 at the age of 18, having already played basketball for the national team...


 Mozambique
51.82 Emily Odoemenam
 Nigeria
52.26 Aïssatou Tandian
 Senegal
53.00
800 metres
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Maria de Lurdes Mutola
 Mozambique
1:56.36 Gladys Wamuyu
 Kenya
2:01.24 Ilse Wicksell
 South Africa
2:03.75
1500 metres
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

Elana Meyer
Elana Meyer
Elana Meyer is a former long-distance runner from South Africa, who won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 metre event....


 South Africa
4:12.56 Gwen Griffiths
 South Africa
4:13.17 Getenesh Urge
Getenesh Urge
Getenesh Urge is a retired Ethiopian middle distance runner who competed in the 1980s through to 2000She won three bronze medals at three different African Championships in Athletics. In Annaba at the 1988 Championships she won a bronze in the 1500 metres, she repeated this performance five years...


 Ethiopia
4:13.68
3000 metres
3000 metres
The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...

Gwen Griffiths
 South Africa
9:13.92 Merima Denboba
Merima Denboba
Merima Denboba is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who specializes in the 5000 metres and cross-country running.Denboba won the 2003 Oeiras International Cross Country, beating two time champion Leah Malot in the process...


 Ethiopia
9:14.48 Hellen Chepngeno
Hellen Chepngeno
Hellen Chepngeno is a retired athlete from Kenya best known for winning gold at the 1994 World Cross Country Championships...


 Kenya
9:14.49
10000 metres
10000 metres
The 10,000 metres or 10K is a common long distance running event. As "10,000 metres" it is a track event, and appears in athletics events such as the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics; as "10K" it is a roadrace or cross country running event...

Berhane Adere
Berhane Adere
Berhane Adere is an athlete from Ethiopia.Adere held the African record for 10,000 metres in a time of 30:04.18, set at the 2003 World Championships, where she won gold...


 Ethiopia
32:48.52 Lydia Cheromei
Lydia Cheromei
Lydia Cheromei is a Kenyan athlete. She specializes in long distance running. She rose to fame at the age of thirteen with a win in the junior race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships...


 Kenya
32:54.55 Fatuma Roba
Fatuma Roba
Fatuma Roba is an Ethiopian long distance runner from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, most known for winning a gold medal in the women's marathon race at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She finished fourth at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics....


 Ethiopia
32:55.32
100 metres hurdles
100 metres hurdles
The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

Nicole Ramalalanirina
Nicole Ramalalanirina
Nicole Ramalalanirina is a French athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. She changed nationality from her native Madagascar in 1998....


 Madagascar
13.32 Taiwo Aladefa
Taiwo Aladefa
Taiwo Aladefa-Darden is a retired Nigerian 100 m hurdler.She won Gold at the 1995 All African games and silver medals at the 1991 All-Africa Games and the 1993 African Championships and won the 1995 All-Africa Games in a new championship record of 12.98 seconds.Her personal best time is 12.72...


 Nigeria
13.50 Annemarie le Roux
 South Africa
13.74
400 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

Omotayo Akinremi
 Nigeria
57.59 Lana Uys
 South Africa
57.60 Karen Swanepoel
 South Africa
58.23
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Charmaine Weavers
 South Africa
1.90 Lucienne N'Da
Lucienne N'Da
Lucienne N'Da is an Ivorian retired high jumper. Her personal best jump is 1.95 metres, achieved at the 1992 African Championships in Belle Vue. This is the current national record.-Achievements:-References:...


 Côte d'Ivoire
1.86 Desiré du Plessis
 South Africa
1.80
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Christy Opara-Thompson
 Nigeria
6.57 Beatrice Utondu
Beatrice Utondu
Beatrice Utondu is a former sprinter from Nigeria who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992...


 Nigeria
6.44 Hiwot Sisay
 Ethiopia
6.23
(NR)
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

Petrusa Swart
 South Africa
12.95w Béryl Laramé
 Seychelles
12.20w Sonya Agbéssi
 Benin
12.02w
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Louise Meintjies
 South Africa
14.66 Elizabeth Olaba
 Kenya
14.42 Luzanda Swanepoel
 South Africa
14.23
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Lizette Etsebeth
 South Africa
54.16 Nanette van der Walt
 South Africa
51.58 Sandra Willms
 South Africa
50.56
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Liezl Roux
 South Africa
48.24 Rhona Dwinger
 South Africa
47.60 Michelle Bradbury
 South Africa
43.92
Heptathlon
Heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...

Chrisna Oosthuizen
 South Africa
5339 Maralize Visser
 South Africa
5159 Caroline Kola
 Kenya
4925
5000 metre track walk Dounia Kara
 Algeria
24:33.56 Amsale Yakobe
 Ethiopia
24:39.04 Felicita Falconer
 South Africa
25:32.68
4 x 100 metres relay
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 Nigeria 43.49  Madagascar 44.93  South Africa 45.15
4 x 400 metres relay
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...

 Nigeria 3:33.21  South Africa 3:37.24  Ghana 3:39.66

Medal table

1  South Africa 15 16 19 50
2  Nigeria 8 9 1 18
3  Kenya 8 5 4 17
4  Ethiopia 2 4 6 12
5  Madagascar 2 1 0 3
 Algeria 2 1 0 3
7  Mozambique 2 0 0 2
8  Ghana 1 1 3 5
9  Central African Republic 1 0 0 1
10  Côte d'Ivoire 0 2 0 2
11  Seychelles 0 1 1 2
 Mauritius 0 1 1 2
13  Senegal 0 0 3 3
14  Egypt 0 0 1 1
 Burundi 0 0 1 1
 Benin 0 0 1 1

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