2006 African Championships in Athletics

2006 African Championships
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Dates	9–13 August
Host city	Bambous, Mauritius
Venue	Stade Germain Comarmond
Events	44
Participation	about 438 athletes from 42 nations
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The 15th African Championships in Athletics were held in Mauritius between August 9 and August 13, 2006. The event was staged at Stade Germain Comarmond in Bambous, Rivière Noire District. This was the second time when the African Championships in Athletics were hosted in Mauritius, the first was in 1992.

Many world-class runners were competing, but in terms of the field events the standard was poor. In addition, some of those, especially the throwing events, had very few participants as African federations cannot afford to send large teams.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Olusoji Fasuba  Nigeria	10.37	Uchenna Emedolu  Nigeria	10.44	Eric Nkansah  Ghana	10.65
	August 10:
200 m details	Uchenna Emedolu  Nigeria	20.61	Stéphan Buckland  Mauritius	20.67	Leigh Julius  South Africa	20.82
	August 13:
400 m details	Gary Kikaya  DR Congo	45.03	Paul Gorries  South Africa	45.50	Young Talkmore Nyongani  Zimbabwe	45.60
	August 11:
800 m details	Alex Kipchirchir  Kenya	1:46.62	Ismail Ahmed Ismail  Sudan	1:46.65	Alfred Kirwa  Kenya	1:46.85
	August 11:
1500 m details	Alex Kipchirchir  Kenya	3:46.54	Adil Kaouch  Morocco	3:46.72	Tarek Boukensa  Algeria	3:46.81
	August 13:
5000 m details	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia	14:03.41	Mike Kigen  Kenya	14:05.12	Moses Kipsiro  Uganda	14:05.20
	August 9:
10,000 m details	Moses Kipsiro  Uganda	28:03.46	Mike Kigen  Kenya	28:03.70	Abebe Dinkesa  Ethiopia	28:05.07
	August 13:
110 m hurdles details	Aymen Ben Ahmed  Tunisia	13.77	Joseph-Berlioz Randriamihaja  Madagascar	14.03	Ruan de Vries  South Africa	14.05
	August 12:
400 m hurdles details	Louis van Zyl  South Africa	49.43	Alwyn Myburgh  South Africa	49.88	Kurt Couto  Mozambique	50.72
	August 10:
3000 m s'chase details	Paul Kipsiele Koech  Kenya	8:11.03 (CR)	Abdelkader Hachlaf  Morocco	8:33.52	Ruben Ramolefi  South Africa	8:39.67
	August 11: reigning Olympic champion Ezekiel Kemboi finished second but was disqualified.
20 km walk details	David Kimutai  Kenya	1:23:58	Hatem Ghoula  Tunisia	1:25:02	Hicham Mejbar  Algeria	1:25:15
	August 13:
4 × 100 m relay details	Nigeria Peter Emelieze[a] Uchenna Emedolu Adetoyi Durotoye Olusoji Fasuba	39.63	South Africa Hannes Dreyer Leigh Julius Lee-Roy Newton Sherwin Vries	39.68	Ghana Harry Adu Mfum Cyril Ferguson Seth Amoo Eric Nkansah	40.12
	August 11:
4 × 400 m relay details	Kenya George Kwoba Vincent Mumo Kiilu Sammy Rono Thomas Musembi	3:06.78	South Africa Alwyn Myburgh Ofentse Mogawane Ruben Majola Paul Gorries	3:07.65	Botswana Oganeditse Moseki California Molefe Gakologelwang Masheto Obakeng Ngwigwa	3:08.13
	August 13:
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)

• ^a Many sources (including the IAAF)^[1] list the lead off runner as Grace Ebor, a female Nigerian middle-distance runner. This is incorrect as the lead off runner was actually Peter Emelieze.^[2]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Kabelo Kgosiemang  Botswana	2.30	Sere Boubakar  Burkina Faso	2.22	Ramsey Carelse  South Africa	2.22
	August 13:
Pole vault details	Okkert Brits  South Africa	5.20	Abderrahmane Tamada  Tunisia	5.15	Hamdi Dhouibi  Tunisia	4.80
	August 12:
Long jump details	Ignisious Gaisah  Ghana	8.51 (+3.7)	Khotso Mokoena  South Africa	8.45 (+4.2)	Issam Nima  Algeria	8.37
	August 9:
Triple jump details	Tarik Bouguetaïb  Morocco	17.25 (+4.2)	Khotso Mokoena  South Africa	16.67 (+3.6)	Younès Moudrik  Morocco	16.58 (+3.7)
	August 12:
Shot put details	Yasser Ibrahim Farag  Egypt	18.93	Janus Robberts  South Africa	17.88	Mohammed Medded  Tunisia	17.87
	August 9:
Discus throw details	Omar Ahmed ElGazaly  Egypt	61.11	Yasser Ibrahim Farag  Egypt	54.38	Chima Ugwu  Nigeria	51.56
	August 10: Nabil Kirame of Morocco, who originally won the bronze, was later disqualified for doping.[3]
Hammer throw details	Chris Harmse  South Africa	77.55 CR	Saber Souid  Tunisia	72.66	Mohsen El Anany  Egypt	69.22
	August 12:
Javelin throw details	Gerhardus Pienaar  South Africa	77.55	Gerbrandt Grobler  South Africa	75.95	Walid Adb El Wahab  Egypt	69.86
	August 13:
Decathlon details	Hamdi Dhouibi  Tunisia	7,566 points	Mourad Souissi  Algeria	7,113 points	Terence Wepener  South Africa	7,084 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)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Vida Anim  Ghana	11.58	Geraldine Pillay  South Africa	11.67	Endurance Ojokolo  Nigeria	11.95
	August 10:
200 m details	Vida Anim  Ghana	22.90	Geraldine Pillay  South Africa	23.11	Fabienne Feraez  Benin	23.15
	August 13:
400 m details	Amy Mbacké Thiam  Senegal	52.22	Amantle Montsho  Botswana	52.68	Louise Ayetotche  Ivory Coast	52.92
	August 11:
800 m details	Janeth Jepkosgei  Kenya	2 :00.64	Maria de Lurdes Mutola  Mozambique	2 :01.08	Nouria Merah Benida  Algeria	2 :02.18
	August 13:
1500 m details	Nouria Merah Benida  Algeria	4:23.26	Safa Issaoui  Tunisia	4:24.08	Berhane Herpassa  Ethiopia	4:24.09
	August 11:
5000 m details	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	15:56.00	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia	15:56.04	Sylvia Chibiwott Kibet  Kenya	15:57.14
	August 10:
10,000 m details	Edith Masai  Kenya	31:27.96 CR	Isabella Ochichi  Kenya	31:29.43	Emily Chebet  Kenya	31:33.39
	August 12:
100 m hurdles details	Toyin Augustus  Nigeria	13.44	Carole Me-ban Kaboud  Cameroon	13.85	Gnima Faye  Senegal	13.95
	August 10:
400 m hurdles details	Janet Wienand  South Africa	56.97	Houria Moussa  Algeria	57.15	Aissafa Soulama  Burkina Faso	57.27
	August 13:
3000 m s'chase details	Jeruto Kiptum  Kenya	10:00.02	Habiba Ghribi  Tunisia	10:10.93	Chaabi Bouchra  Morocco	10:11.52
	August 11:
20 km walk details	Nagwa Ibrahim Saleh  Egypt	1:43:22	Arasa Asnaksh Abissa  Ethiopia	1:45:31	Ghania Amzal  Algeria	1:46:05
	August 13:
4 × 100 m relay details	Ghana Gifty Addy, Elizabeth Amolofo, Vida Anim, Esther Dankwah	44.43	Nigeria Toyin Augustus Francisca Idoko Gloria Kemasuode Endurance Ojokolo	44.52	Cameroon Esther Solange Ndoumbe Carole Kaboud Me-Bam Josephine Mbarga Bikie Leonie Myriam Mani	46.43
	August 11:
4 × 400 m relay details	South Africa Amanda Kotze, Estie Wittstock, Janet Wienand, Heide Seyerling	3:36.88	Nigeria Alice Nwosu Mary Onyemuwa Kate Obilor Christiana Ekpukhon	3:37.00	Kenya Josephine Nyarunda Elizabeth Muthuka Annet Mwanzi Lukhuyi Florence Wasike	3:39.79
	August 13:
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)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Rene van der Merwe  South Africa	1.84	Nneka Ukuh  Nigeria	1.80	Sara Bouaoudia  Algeria	1.75
	August 11:
Pole vault details	Syrine Balti  Tunisia	4.21	Nisrine Dinar  Morocco	3.60	Lindi Roux  South Africa	3.60
	August 10:
Long jump details	Joséphine Mbarga-Bikié  Cameroon	6.33 (+2.9)	Kéné Ndoye  Senegal	6.30 (+1.8)	Chinazom Amadi  Nigeria	6.23 (+3.0)
	August 10:
Triple jump details	Yamilé Aldama  Sudan	14.71 (+2.6)	Kéné Ndoye  Senegal	14.08 (+3.6)	Otonye Iworima  Nigeria	13.88 (+2.1)
	August 13:
Shot put details	Vivian Chukwuemeka  Nigeria	17.45	Wafa Ismail El Baghdadi  Egypt	15.48	Monique Ngo Ngoué-Poree  Cameroon	14.99
	August 13:
Discus throw details	Elizna Naude  South Africa	55.42	Vivian Chukwuemeka  Nigeria	49.63	Suzanne Kragbe  Ivory Coast	49.05
	August 11:
Hammer throw details	Marwa Hussein Arafat  Egypt	62.16	Blessing Egwu  Nigeria	51.77	Menakshee Totah  Mauritius	36.68
	August 9: Egypt's Marwa Ahmed Arafat retained her African title, while Hayat El Ghazi of Morocco, who originally won the silver, was later disqualified for doping.[4]
Javelin throw details	Justine Robbeson  South Africa	60.60 PB/AR	Sunette Viljoen  South Africa	55.64	Lindy Leveau  Seychelles	54.41
	August 12:
Heptathlon details	Janice Josephs  South Africa	5876 points	Celine Laporte  Seychelles	4932 points	Nadege Foe Essama  Cameroon	3808 points
	August 11–12:
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)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa (RSA)	10	11	6	27
2	Kenya (KEN)	8	3	4	15
3	Nigeria (NGR)	5	6	4	15
4	Egypt (EGY)	4	2	2	8
5	Ghana (GHA)	4	0	2	6
6	Tunisia (TUN)	3	5	2	10
7	Ethiopia (ETH)	2	2	2	6
8	Morocco (MAR)	1	3	2	6
9	Algeria (ALG)	1	2	6	9
10	Senegal (SEN)	1	2	1	4
11	Cameroon (CMR)	1	1	3	5
12	Botswana (BOT)	1	1	1	3
13	Sudan (SUD)	1	1	0	2
14	Uganda (UGA)	1	0	1	2
15	DR Congo (COD)	1	0	0	1
16	Burkina Faso (BFA)	0	1	1	2
	Mauritius (MUS)	0	1	1	2
	Mozambique (MOZ)	0	1	1	2
	Seychelles (SEY)	0	1	1	2
20	Madagascar (MAD)	0	1	0	1
21	Ivory Coast (CIV)	0	0	2	2
22	Benin (BEN)	0	0	1	1
	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		44	44	44	132

• 2006 in athletics (track and field)

Day reports

• Ouma, Mark (2006-08-07). Mauritius expects star studded African Championships - Preview. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-09-17.
• Ouma, Mark (2006-08-10). Bekele and Gaisah victorious - two titles for Egypt - African Champs Day One. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-09-17.
• Ouma, Mark (2006-08-11). Defar defeats Dibaba; Van Zyl surges to victory – African Champs Day Two. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-09-17.
• Ouma, Mark (2006-08-12). Kenyan wins by Kipsiele Koech, Kiptum, Kipchirchir - African Champs Day Three. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-09-17.
• Ouma, Mark (2006-08-13). South Africans steal the show - African Championships report - Day Four. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-09-17.
• Ouma, Mark (2006-08-14). Anim and Kipchirchir complete doubles in Mauritius - African Champs Final Day. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-09-17.

• Full results Archived 2006-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
• Confederation of African Athletics
• Association Mauricienne d'Athlétisme amateur Archived 2006-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Official results report