1998 African Championships in Athletics

The 11th African Championships in Athletics were held in Dakar, Senegal, from August 18 to August 22 at the Stade Léopold Senghor.

1998 African Championships
Host stadium in Dakar
Dates	18–22 August
Host city	Dakar, Senegal
Venue	Stade Léopold Senghor
Events	42
Participation	395 athletes from 39 nations
← 1996 Yaoundé 2000 Algiers →

Men's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: +0.1 m/s)	Seun Ogunkoya  Nigeria	9.94 CR	Frankie Fredericks  Namibia	9.97	Leonard Myles-Mills  Ghana	10.10
200 m (wind: +0.6 m/s)	Frankie Fredericks  Namibia	19.99 CR	Sunday Emmanuel  Nigeria	20.45	Oumar Loum  Senegal	20.59
400 m	Clement Chukwu  Nigeria	44.65 CR	Davis Kamoga  Uganda	44.79	Ibrahima Wade  Senegal	45.05
800 m	Japheth Kimutai  Kenya	1:45.82	Patrick Ndururi  Kenya	1:45.85	Djabir Saïd-Guerni  Algeria	1:46.31
1500 m	Laban Rotich  Kenya	3:45.03	Adil Kaouch  Morocco	3:47.34	Ali Saïdi Sief  Algeria	3:47.89
3000 m	Tom Nyariki  Kenya	8:03.75	Brahim Lahlafi  Morocco	8:05.00	Fita Bayissa  Ethiopia	8:05.16
5000 m	Daniel Komen  Kenya	13:35.70	Hailu Mekonnen  Ethiopia	13:38.19	William Kalya  Kenya	13:39.17
3000 m st.	Bernard Barmasai  Kenya	8:11.74 CR	Richard Limo  Kenya	8:20.67	Brahim Boulami  Morocco	8:29.52
110 m H (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Shaun Bownes  South Africa	13.72	William Erese  Nigeria	13.92	Doudou Félou Sow  Senegal	14.57
400 m H	Samuel Matete  Zambia	48.58	Ken Harnden  Zimbabwe	49.39	Ibou Faye  Senegal	49.59
4 x 100 m	Ivory Coast Eric Pacome N'Dri Jean-Olivier Zirignon Ahmed Douhou Ibrahim Meité	38.76	Nigeria Ejiogou Okechukwu Tunde Suleiman Paul Egonye Sunday Emmanuel	38.88	Cameroon Benjamin Sirimou Claude Toukene-Guebogo Serge Bengono Alexandre Dalle Dalle	39.61
4 x 400 m	Senegal Ousmane Niang Ibou Faye Hachim Ndiaye Ibrahima Wade	3:04.20	Zimbabwe Ken Harnden Crispen Mutakanyi Phillip Mukomana Jeffrey Masvanhise	3:04.47	Nigeria Tony Ogbeta Musa Audu Fidelis Gadzama Nduka Awazie	3:05.18
20 km Walk	Hatem Ghoula  Tunisia	1:31:28	Moussa Aouanouk  Algeria	1:32:18	Getachew Demisse  Ethiopia	1:34:19
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Abderrahmane Hammad  Algeria	2.21	Khemraj Naiko  Mauritius	2.18	Gavin Lendis  South Africa	2.15
Long jump	Hatem Mersal  Egypt	8.13	Anis Gallali  Tunisia	8.01	Mark Anthony Awere  Ghana	7.77
Pole vault	Okkert Brits  South Africa	5.40 =CR	Kersley Gardenne  Mauritius	5.20	Mohamed Bédoui  Tunisia	4.80
Triple jump	Andrew Owusu  Ghana	17.23 CR	Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa  Zimbabwe	17.19	Oluyemi Sule  Nigeria	16.37
Shot put	Burger Lambrechts  South Africa	19.78	Dhia Kamel Ahmed  Egypt	17.61	Quentin Soné Ehawa  Cameroon	15.51
Discus	Frantz Kruger  South Africa	62.17	Frits Potgieter  South Africa	60.50	Mickael Conjungo  Central African Republic	57.52
Javelin	Marius Corbett  South Africa	79.82	Khaled Es Sayed Yassin  Egypt	72.84	Bouna Diop  Senegal	72.66
Hammer	Chris Harmse  South Africa	72.11 CR	Hakim Toumi  Algeria	69.36	Samir Haouam  Algeria	68.79
Decathlon	Rédouane Youcef  Algeria	7352 points	Mohamed Benyahia  Algeria	7093 points	Issam Abdelatif Saber  Egypt	6420 points
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Mary Onyali  Nigeria	11.05 CR	Endurance Ojokolo  Nigeria	11.08	Rose Aboaje  Nigeria	11.31
200 m (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Falilat Ogunkoya  Nigeria	22.22 CR	Rose Aboaje  Nigeria	22.83	Heide Seyerling  South Africa	22.89
400 m	Falilat Ogunkoya  Nigeria	50.07 CR	Charity Opara  Nigeria	50.13	Ony Paule Ratsimbazafy  Madagascar	52.11
800 m	Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique	1:57.95	Hasna Benhassi  Morocco	2:01.24	Julia Sakara  Zimbabwe	2:01.55
1500 m	Jackline Maranga  Kenya	4:11.75 CR	Julia Sakara  Zimbabwe	4:13.64	Bouchra Benthami  Morocco	4:17.83
3000 m	Zahra Ouaziz  Morocco	8:53.75	Genet Gebregiorgis  Ethiopia	9:13.47	Yemenashu Taye  Ethiopia	9:13.59
5000 m	Berhane Adere  Ethiopia	15:54.31 CR	Sally Barsosio  Kenya	15:59.12	Merima Denboba  Ethiopia	16:11.16
100 m H (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Glory Alozie  Nigeria	12.77 CR	Mame Tacko Diouf  Senegal	13.08	Corien Botha  South Africa	13.25
400 m H	Nezha Bidouane  Morocco	54.24 CR	Mame Tacko Diouf  Senegal	55.06	Saidat Onanuga  Nigeria	56.84
4 x 100 m	Nigeria Endurance Ojokolo Henrietta Ajaegbu Funmilola Ogundana Rose Aboaja	43.75	Madagascar Hanitriniaina Rakotrondrabe Lalao Ravaonirina Paule Ony Ratsimbazafy Rosa Rakotozafy	43.78	Ghana Veronica Bawuah Vida Nsiah Monica Twum Mavis Akoto	43.89
4 x 400 m	Nigeria Folashade Ogundemi Rosemary Okafor Doris Jacob Falilat Ogunkoya	3:31.07 CR	Senegal Mame Tacko Diouf Amy Mbacke Thiam Aminata Diouf Gnima Touré	3:31.07	Cameroon Myriam Leonie Mani Sylvie Mballa Eloundou Mireille Nguimgo Claudine Komgang	3:33.85
5000 m walk	Nagwa Ibrahim Ali  Egypt	24:28.42	Dounia Kara  Algeria	25:17.17	Anne-Hortense Ebéna  Cameroon	25:33.11
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Hestrie Storbeck  South Africa	1.92	Irène Tiendrébéogo  Burkina Faso	1.84	Nkechinyere Mbaoma  Nigeria	1.75
Long jump	Chioma Ajunwa  Nigeria	6.78 =CR	Chinedu Odozor  Nigeria	6.45	Baya Rahouli  Algeria	6.36
Triple jump	Baya Rahouli  Algeria	13.96 CR	Françoise Mbango Etone  Cameroon	13.80	Kéné Ndoye  Senegal	13.30
Shot put	Veronica Abrahamse  South Africa	15.07	Amel Ben Khaled  Tunisia	14.83	Hanan Ahmed Khaled  Egypt	14.68
Discus	Elizna Naudé  South Africa	50.28	Caroline Fournier  Mauritius	50.28	Hanan Ahmed Khaled  Egypt	42.82
Hammer	Caroline Fournier  Mauritius	54.29	Marwa Ahmed Hussein  Egypt	47.55	Djida Yalloulène  Algeria	47.43
Javelin (old type)	Lindy Leveaux  Seychelles	47.56	Bernadette Ravina  Mauritius	46.79	Monique Djikada  Cameroon	45.61
Heptathlon	Patience Itanyi  Nigeria	5376 points	Mary Dolly Zé Oyono  Cameroon	5211 points	Paulette Mendy  Senegal	4716 points
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Nigeria (NGR)	10	7	5	22
2	South Africa (RSA)	9	1	3	13
3	Kenya (KEN)	6	3	1	10
4	Algeria (ALG)	3	4	5	12
5	Egypt (EGY)	2	3	3	8
6	Morocco (MAR)	2	3	2	7
7	Mauritius (MRI)	1	4	0	5
8	Senegal (SEN)	1	3	7	11
9	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	2	4	7
10	Tunisia (TUN)	1	2	1	4
11	Namibia (NAM)	1	1	0	2
12	Ghana (GHA)	1	0	3	4
13	Ivory Coast (CIV)	1	0	0	1
	Mozambique (MOZ)	1	0	0	1
	Seychelles (SEY)	1	0	0	1
	Zambia (ZAM)	1	0	0	1
17	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	4	1	5
18	Cameroon (CMR)	0	2	5	7
19	Madagascar (MAD)	0	1	1	2
20	Burkina Faso (BFA)	0	1	0	1
	Uganda (UGA)	0	1	0	1
22	Central African Republic (CAF)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		42	42	42	126

See also

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• Results - GBR Athletics