1985 African Championships in Athletics

The 1985 African Championships in Athletics were held in Cairo, Egypt between 15 and 18 August.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.8 m/s)	Chidi Imo Template:Flagcountry	10.22	Charles-Louis Seck Template:Flagcountry	10.37	Victor Edet Template:Flagcountry	10.44
200 metres (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Simeon Kipkemboi Template:Flagcountry	20.82	Innocent Egbunike Template:Flagcountry	20.85	Alfred Nyambane Template:Flagcountry	20.92
400 metres	Innocent Egbunike Template:Flagcountry	45.22 CR	Gabriel Tiacoh Template:Flagcountry	45.44	David Kitur Template:Flagcountry	46.01
800 metres	Sammy Koskei Template:Flagcountry	1:45.30	Moussa Fall Template:Flagcountry	1:45.95	Juma Ndiwa Template:Flagcountry	1:46.67
1500 metres	Omer Khalifa Template:Flagcountry	3:37.74 CR	Abdi Bile Template:Flagcountry	3:38.19	Joseph Chesire Template:Flagcountry	3:38.72
5000 metresTemplate:Efn	Wodajo Bulti Template:Flagcountry	14:40.12	Paul Kipkoech Template:Flagcountry	14:43.05	John Ngugi Template:Flagcountry	14:44.33
10,000 metres	Wodajo Bulti Template:Flagcountry	28:22.43	Kipsubai Koskei Template:Flagcountry	28:26.63	Paul Kipkoech Template:Flagcountry	28:29.64
Marathon	Ahmed Salah Template:Flagcountry	2:23:01	Kebede Balcha Template:Flagcountry	2:24:31	Dereje Nedi Template:Flagcountry	2:25:41
3000 metre steeplechase	Julius Kariuki Template:Flagcountry	8:20.74 CR	Joshua Kipkemboi Template:Flagcountry	8:21.70	Féthi Baccouche Template:Flagcountry	8:38.94
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.7 m/s)	René Djédjémel Mélédjé Template:Flagcountry	14.14	Ikechukwu Mbadugha Template:Flagcountry	14.47	Hisham Mohamed Makin Template:Flagcountry	14.52
400 metres hurdles	Amadou Dia Bâ Template:Flagcountry	48.29 CR	Henry Amike Template:Flagcountry	49.16	René Djédjémel Mélédjé Template:Flagcountry	49.59
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Iziaq Adeyanju Ikpoto Eseme Victor Edet Chidi Imo	39.28 CR	Template:Flagcountry Alfred Nyambane Simeon Kipkemboi Joseph Sainah Peter Wekesa	39.91	Template:Flagcountry Abdesslam Kadouri Abdelkader Kaci Djamel Boudebibah Mustapha Kamel Selmi	40.14
4 × 400 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Julius Sang Tito Sawe Alfred Nyambane David Kitur	3:01.86 CR	Template:Flagcountry Henry Amike Innocent Egbunike Moses Ugbisien Sunday Uti	3:05.51	Template:Flagcountry Amadou Dia Ba Ousmane Diarra Moussa Fall Babacar Niang	3:07.94
20 kilometre road walk	Abdelwahab Ferguène Template:Flagcountry	1:33:28	Shemsu Hassan Template:Flagcountry	1:42:26	Abderrahmane Djebbar Template:Flagcountry	1:49:26
High jump	Moussa Sagna Fall Template:Flagcountry	2.17	Ogmore Okoro Template:Flagcountry	2.17	Khalid Koughbar Template:Flagcountry	2.11
Pole vault	Choukri Abahnini Template:Flagcountry	4.60	Mourad Mahour Bacha Template:Flagcountry	4.50	Youssef Qortobi Template:Flagcountry	4.50
Long jump	Paul Emordi Template:Flagcountry	7.90	Joseph Kio Template:Flagcountry	7.81	Mustapha Benmrah Template:Flagcountry	7.56
Triple jump	Paul Emordi Template:Flagcountry	16.56	Joseph Kio Template:Flagcountry	16.26	Mamadou Diallo Template:Flagcountry	16.17
Shot put	Ahmed Mohamed Ashoush Template:Flagcountry	19.34	Ahmed Kamel Shata Template:Flagcountry	19.23	Mohamed Fatihi Template:Flagcountry	17.40
Discus throw	Christian Okoye Template:Flagcountry	63.56 CR	Mohamed Naguib Hamed Template:Flagcountry	62.24	Hassan Ahmed Hamad Template:Flagcountry	55.38
Hammer throw	Hakim Toumi Template:Flagcountry	70.56 CR	Yacine Louail Template:Flagcountry	61.30	Ahmed Ibrahim Taha Template:Flagcountry	61.54
Javelin throw	Ahmed Mahour Bacha Template:Flagcountry	80.04 CR	Mongi Alimi Template:Flagcountry	75.30	Justin Arop Template:Flagcountry	74.60
Decathlon	Mourad Mahour Bacha Template:Flagcountry	6712	Abu El Makarem El Hamd Template:Flagcountry	5642	Landry Nzambé-Busugu Template:Flagcountry	5259

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.9 m/s)	Rufina Uba Template:Flagcountry	11.61	Doris Wiredu Template:Flagcountry	11.82	Lynda Eseimokumo Template:Flagcountry	11.86
200 metres	Rufina Uba Template:Flagcountry	23.79	Mary Onyali Template:Flagcountry	23.98	Martha Appiah Template:Flagcountry	24.10
400 metres	Kehinde Vaughan Template:Flagcountry	53.33	Doris Wiredu Template:Flagcountry	53.62	Grace Bakari Template:Flagcountry	53.72
800 metres	Selina Chirchir Template:Flagcountry	2:03.70	Mary Chemweno Template:Flagcountry	2:04.58	Fatima Aouam Template:Flagcountry	2:04.91
1500 metres	Mary Chemweno Template:Flagcountry	4:17.90	Fatima Aouam Template:Flagcountry	4:19.11	Hellen Kimaiyo Template:Flagcountry	4:22.85
3000 metres	Hellen Kimaiyo Template:Flagcountry	9:18.53	Hassania Darami Template:Flagcountry	9:19.82	Regina Chemeli Template:Flagcountry	9:20.62
10,000 metres	Hassania Darami Template:Flagcountry	35:09.68	Karima Farag Mohamed Template:Flagcountry	44:01.32
100 metres hurdles (wind: +1.3 m/s)	Maria Usifo Template:Flagcountry	13.52	Cécile Ngambi Template:Flagcountry	13.81	Albertine Koutouan Template:Flagcountry	14.27
400 metres hurdles	Nawal El Moutawakil Template:Flagcountry	56.00	Maria Usifo Template:Flagcountry	57.02	Marie Womplou Template:Flagcountry	59.85
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Martha Appiah Grace Armah Cynthia Quartey Doris Wiredu	45.08	Template:Flagcountry Beatrice Utondu Mary Onyali Lynda Eseimokumo Rufina Ubah	45.45	Template:Flagcountry Patricia Foufoué Ziga Célestine N'Drin Louise Koré Seraphine Murekatete	46.98
4 × 400 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Airat Bakare Maria Usifo Kehinde Vaughan Sadia Showunmi	3:36.13	Template:Flagcountry Selina Jeruto Mary Chemweno Selina Chirchir Esther Kawaya	3:39.66	Template:Flagcountry Mary Mensah Veronica Bawuah Doris Wiredu Ayishetu Adam	3:42.32
High jump	Awa Dioum-Ndiaye Template:Flagcountry	1.76	Kawther Akrémi Template:Flagcountry	1.76	Lucienne N'Da Template:Flagcountry	1.70
Long jump	Marianne Mendoza Template:Flagcountry	6.15	Grace Armah Template:Flagcountry	6.01	Caroline Nwajei Template:Flagcountry	6.00
Shot put	Souad Malloussi Template:Flagcountry	15.20	Agnès Tchuinté Template:Flagcountry	14.74	Odette Mistoul Template:Flagcountry	14.54
Discus throw	Zoubida Laayouni Template:Flagcountry	51.80	Mariette Van Heerden Template:Flagcountry	50.14	Aïcha Dahmous Template:Flagcountry	48.84
Javelin throw	Agnès Tchuinté Template:Flagcountry	54.00	Samia Djémaa Template:Flagcountry	50.50	Samira Benhamza Template:Flagcountry	49.32
Heptathlon	Chérifa Meskaoui Template:Flagcountry	5294	Nacèra Achir Template:Flagcountry	5286	Yasmina Azzizi Template:Flagcountry	4909

See also

• 1985 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• Results – GBR Athletics
• Medallists