ATHLETICS AT THE 2007 ALL-AFRICA GAMES

The 'Athletics competition at the 2007 All-Africa Games' were held on the Stade 5 Juillet 1962 in Algiers, Algeria between 18 July and 22 July 2007.

Contents

Men's results

Track

Field

Women's results

Track

Field

References

Results

Daily reports

Men's results

Track

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Olusoji Fasuba	10.18	Eric Nkansah	10.35	Uchenna Emedolu	10.37
	July 19: The three athletes also shared the podium at the 2006 African Championships, with Fasuba defending the gold medal.
200 m	Leigh Julius	20.81	Seth Amoo	20.88	Obinna Metu	20.94
	July 22: Julius moved up from the bronze medal position at the 2006 African Championships.
400 m	California Molefe	45.59	Young Talkmore Nyongani	45.76	Mathieu Gnanligo	45.89
	July 20: Molefe won Botswana's second gold medal at the Games, just shortly after Amantle Montsho took the women's 400 m title. Gnanligo won the first All-Africa Games athletics medal for Benin.
800 m	Abubaker Kaki Khamis	1:45.22	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi	1:45.54	Justus Koech	1:45.80
	July 20: Big surprise victory as Kaki Khamis upset 2004 Olympic silver medallist Mulaudzi.
1500 m	Asbel Kiprop	3:38.97	Antar Zerguelaine	3:39.04	Tarek Boukensa	3:39.18
	July 22: Running on home track, Zerguelaine was narrowly beaten to second while Boukensa defended his position from the 2006 African Championships.
5000 m	Moses Kipsiro	13:12:51	Kiprono Menjo	13:12.64	Tariku Bekele	13:13.43
	July 22: Kipsiro won Uganda's first gold medal at the Games.
10,000 m	Zersenay Tadesse	27:00.30	Tadesse Tola	27:28.08	Gebre-egziabher Gebremariam	27:41.24
	July 19: Tadesse won the first All-Africa Games athletics medal for Eritrea as the first non-Kenyan or Ethiopian to win a medal in the men's 10,000 metres. In addition, 27:00.30 was a new Games record. A number of Kenyans and Ethiopians were absent due to preparations for the 2007 World Championships.
Half marathon	Deriba Merga	1:02:24	Martin Sulle	1:03:01	Yonas Kifle	1:03:19
	July 20
110 m h	Salim Nurudeen	13.59	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja	13.72	Shaun Bownes	13.81
	July 19: Nurudeen established a new Games record.
400 m h	L.J. van Zyl	48.74	Pieter De Villiers	48.91	Alwyn Myburgh	48.91
	July 21: South African dominance as De Villiers split van Zyl and Myburgh, winners of gold and silver respectively at the 2006 African Championships.
3000 m s'chase	Willy Komen	8:15.11	Ezekiel Kemboi	8:16.93	Nahom Mesfin	8:39.67
	July 18: The Kenyan dominance in the event continued as 2006 World Junior champion Komen upset 2004 Olympic champion Kemboi.
20 km walk	Hatem Ghoula	1:22:33	David Kimutai	1:24:16	Mohamed Ameur	1:25:12
	July 21
4 x 100 m	Isaac Uche, Obinna Metu, Chinedu Oriala, Olusoji Fasuba	38.91	Morne Nagel, Leigh Julius, Lee Roy Newton, Sherwin Vries	39.11	Ngonidzashe Makusha, Gabriel Mvumvure, Brian Dzingai, Lewis Banda	39.16
	July 20: Nigeria and South Africa defended their positions from the 2006 African Championships.
4 x 400 m	Zacharia Kamberuka, Isaac Makwala, Obakeng Ngwigwa, Tshepo Kelaotse	3:03.16	Olusegun Ogunkule, Edu Nkami, Victor Isaiah, Saul Weigopwa	3:03.99	Nelton Ndebele, Young Talkmore Nyongani, Gabriel Chikomo, Lewis Banda	3:04.84
	July 22

Field

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High jump	Kabelo Kgosiemang	2.27	Abderrahmane Hammad	2.24	Mohamed Benhedia Arinze Obiora	2.20
	July 22: Kosiemang defended his title from the 2006 African Championships, ahead of veteran Hammad.
Long jump	Gable Garenamotse	8.08 (+0.7)	Arnaud Casquette	8.03 (+1.4)	Khotso Mokoena	7.99 (+0.6)
	July 22: A tight competition where Mokoena made it to the podium in his last jump, surpassing Issam Nima, before Garenamotse surpassed Casquette. Ignisious Gaisah did not start due to injury.
Pole vault	Abderrahmane Tamada	5.10	Karim Sène	5.10	Hamdi Dhouibi	4.90
	July 21: Tamada moved up one place from the 2006 African Championships, while decathlete Dhouibi defended his bronze medal from then. Only six athletes entered the competition.
Triple jump	Ndiss Kaba Badji	16.80 (+0.0)	Hugo Mamba-Schlick	16.61 (+0.0)	Andrew Owusu	16.32 (+1.0)
	July 19: Khotso Mokoena exited the competition after three invalid attempts.
Shot put	Yasser Fathy Ibrahim Farag	19.20	Roelie Potgieter	19.02	Mohammed Medded	17.94
	July 19: Farag, who also won the discus throw silver medal, retained his title from the from the 2006 African Championships.
Discus	Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly	62.28	Yasser Fathy Ibrahim Farag	61.58	Hannes Hopley	57.79
	July 18: El Ghazaly and Farag retained their positions from the 2006 African Championships.
Javelin	John Robert Oosthuizen	78.05	Gerhardus Pienaar	76.70	Mohamed Ali Kbabou	71.77
	July 22
Hammer	Chris Harmse	76.73	Mohsen El Anany	72.00	Saber Souid	70.01
	July 21: Harmse became the fifth athlete to win three All-Africa Games titles in a row. El Anany and Souid switched places compared to the 2006 African Championships.
Decathlon	Hamdi Dhouibi	7838 points	Boualem Lamri	7473 points	Larbi Bouraada	7349 points
	July 18-19: Dhouibi continued his dominance in African decathlon, this time beating the old Games record from 1999 of 7497 points.

Women's results

Track

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Damola Osayemi	11.20	Constance Mkenku	11.27	Vida Anim	11.33
	July 19: Mkenku won the first All-Africa Games 100 metres medal for a country other than Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon.
200 m	Damola Osayemi	23.21	Vida Anim	23.29	Amandine Allou Affoue	23.44
	July 22: Osayemi won her second gold medal at the Games. Anim added a silver medal to her bronze and gold medals won in the 100 m and 4x100 m relay respectively.
400 m	Amantle Montsho	51.13	Joy Eze	51.20	Folashade Abugan	51.44
	July 20: Montsho won Botswana's first gold medal at the Games.
800 m	Leonor Piuza	2:02.83	Agnes Samaria	203.17	Nahida Touhami	2:03.79
	July 19: Piuza continued the Mozambican dominance of the event, following Maria Mutola's wins in 1991, 1995 and 1999.
1500 m	Gelete Burika Bati	4:06.89	Veronica Nyaruai	4:09.11	Agnes Samaria	4:09.18
	July 22: Samaria won her second medal at the Games.
5000 m	Meseret Defar	15:02.72	Meselech Melkamu	15:03.86	Sylvia Chibiwott Kibet	15:06.39
	July 18: Defar and Kibet defended their medals from the 2006 African Championships.
10,000 m	Mestawet Tufa	31:26.05	Edith Masai	31:31.18	Irene Kipchumba	31:36.78
	July 21: World leader Tufa beat 40-year-old Masai.
Half marathon	Souad Ait Salem	1:13:35	Bayisa Atsede	1:13:54	Kenza Dahmani	1:14:10
	July 20: The first athletics gold medal for the host country.
100 m h	Toyin Augustus	13.23	Jessica Ohanaja	13.27	Fatmata Fofanah	13.51
	July 20: Augustus defended her title from the 2006 African Championships. Fofanah won the first All-Africa Games athletics medal for Guinea.
400 m h	Muna Jabir Adam	54.93	Aissata Soulama	55.49	Ajoke Odumosu	55.80
	July 22: Soulama became the first Burundian woman, and the fourth Burundian in total, to win an All-Africa Games medal.
3000 m s'chase	Ruth Bosibori	9:31.99	Mekdes Bekele Tadese	9:49.95	Netsanet Achamo	9:51.63
	July 20: The event was staged for the first time.
20 km walk	Chïma Trabelsi	1:49:13	Mercy Njoki	1:49:18	Arasa Asnaksh Abissa	1:49:29
	July 19
4 x 100 m	Mariama Salifu, Esther Dankwah, Gifty Addy, Vida Anim	43.84	Gladys Nwabani, Endurance Ojokolo, Damola Osayemi, Emem Edem	43.85	Judith Djaman Brah, Louise Ayetotche, Cynthia Niako, Amandine Allou Affoue	44.48
	July 20: Ghana and Nigeria defended their positions from the 2006 African Championships.
4 x 400 m	Joy Eze, Folashade Abugan, Sekinat Adesanya, Christy Ekpukhon	3:29.74	Estie Wittstock, Amanda Kotze, Tihanna Vorster, Tsholofelo Selemela	3:33.62	Nawal El Jack, Faiza Omar, Mohamed Hind, Muna Jabir Adam	3:39.79
	July 22: Nigeria and South Africa switched places compared to the 2006 African Championships, while Sudan won their first relay medal.

Field

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High jump	Doreen Amata	1.89	Anika Smit	1.89	Marcoleen Pretorius	1.83
	July 19: Amata established a new national record to upset Smit and claim Nigeria's first gold medal at the Games.
Pole vault	Leila Ben Youssef	3.85	Ahmed Eman Nesrim	3.60	Eva Thornton	3.40
	July 19: Five athletes entered the competition. First-time competitor Leila Ben Youssef of Tunisia claimed the gold.
Long jump	Janice Josephs	6.79 (+0.1)	Blessing Okagbare	6.46 (+1.8)	Kaita Yah	6.35w (+2.2)
	July 21
Triple jump	Yamilé Aldama	14.46 (+0.5)	Chinonye Ohadugha	14.21 (-0.1)	Otonye Iworima	13.83 (+0.9)
	July 18: Aldama and Iworima defended their medals from the 2006 African Championships, while Ohadugha set a new Nigerian record.
Shot put	Vivian Chukwuemeka	17.60	Simoné du Toit	16.77	Veronica Abrahamse	15.75
	July 22: Chukwuemeka became the sixth athlete to win three All-Africa Games titles in a row. Abrahamse had won two silver medals in a row, but was beaten by her young countryfellow.
Discus	Elizna Naude	58.40	Monia Kari	55.15	Vivian Chukwuemeka	52.52
	July 21
Hammer	Marwa Ahmed Hussein Arafat	65.70	Funke Adeoye	64.04	Florence Ezeh	59.55
	July 19: Arafat retained her title from the 2006 African Championships. Five athletes entered the competition.
Javelin	Justine Robbeson	58.09	Lindy Leveau	56.49	Sunette Viljoen	54.46
	July 20: The three athletes also shared the podium at the 2006 African Championships, with Robbeson defending the gold medal.
Heptathlon	Margaret Simpson	6278 points	Patience Okoro	5161 points	Beatrice Kamboule	4994 points
	July 20-21: Simpson improved her own Games record.

References

Results

★ Results, day 1 - official site

★ Results, day 2 - official site

★ Results, day 3 - official site

★ Results, day 4 - official site

★ Results, day 5 - official site

★ All-Africa Games - GBR Athletics

Daily reports

★ Defar retains title, Kemboi upset - All Africa Games day 1 David Powell

★ In Algiers, another landmark for Tadesse - All Africa Games day 2 David Powell

★ Kaki surprises Mulaudzi in Algiers - All Africa Games Day 3 David Powell

★ Van Zyl leads South African gold parade in Algiers – All Africa Games Day 4 David Powell

★ Compelling races and a pair of upsets as All Africa Games conclude David Powell