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.

Men's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: +0.1 m/s)	Seun Ogunkoya Template:Flagcountry	9.94 CR	Frankie Fredericks Template:Flagcountry	9.97	Leonard Myles-Mills Template:Flagcountry	10.10
200 m (wind: +0.6 m/s)	Frankie Fredericks Template:Flagcountry	19.99 CR	Sunday Emmanuel Template:Flagcountry	20.45	Oumar Loum Template:Flagcountry	20.59
400 m	Clement Chukwu Template:Flagcountry	44.65 CR	Davis Kamoga Template:Flagcountry	44.79	Ibrahima Wade Template:Flagcountry	45.05
800 m	Japheth Kimutai Template:Flagcountry	1:45.82	Patrick Ndururi Template:Flagcountry	1:45.85	Djabir Saïd-Guerni Template:Flagcountry	1:46.31
1500 m	Laban Rotich Template:Flagcountry	3:45.03	Adil Kaouch Template:Flagcountry	3:47.34	Ali Saïdi Sief Template:Flagcountry	3:47.89
3000 m	Tom Nyariki Template:Flagcountry	8:03.75	Brahim Lahlafi Template:Flagcountry	8:05.00	Fita Bayissa Template:Flagcountry	8:05.16
5000 m	Daniel Komen Template:Flagcountry	13:35.70	Hailu Mekonnen Template:Flagcountry	13:38.19	William Kalya Template:Flagcountry	13:39.17
3000 m st.	Bernard Barmasai Template:Flagcountry	8:11.74 CR	Richard Limo Template:Flagcountry	8:20.67	Brahim Boulami Template:Flagcountry	8:29.52
110 m H (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Shaun Bownes Template:Flagcountry	13.72	William Erese Template:Flagcountry	13.92	Doudou Félou Sow Template:Flagcountry	14.57
400 m H	Samuel Matete Template:Flagcountry	48.58	Ken Harnden Template:Flagcountry	49.39	Ibou Faye Template:Flagcountry	49.59
4 x 100 m	Template:Flagcountry Eric Pacome N'Dri Jean-Olivier Zirignon Ahmed Douhou Ibrahim Meité	38.76	Template:Flagcountry Ejiogou Okechukwu Tunde Suleiman Paul Egonye Sunday Emmanuel	38.88	Template:Flagcountry Benjamin Sirimou Claude Toukene-Guebogo Serge Bengono Alexandre Dalle Dalle	39.61
4 x 400 m	Template:Flagcountry Ousmane Niang Ibou Faye Hachim Ndiaye Ibrahima Wade	3:04.20	Template:Flagcountry Ken Harnden Crispen Mutakanyi Phillip Mukomana Jeffrey Masvanhise	3:04.47	Template:Flagcountry Tony Ogbeta Musa Audu Fidelis Gadzama Nduka Awazie	3:05.18
20 km Walk	Hatem Ghoula Template:Flagcountry	1:31:28	Moussa Aouanouk Template:Flagcountry	1:32:18	Getachew Demisse Template:Flagcountry	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 Template:Flagcountry	2.21	Khemraj Naiko Template:Flagcountry	2.18	Gavin Lendis Template:Flagcountry	2.15
Long jump	Hatem Mersal Template:Flagcountry	8.13	Anis Gallali Template:Flagcountry	8.01	Mark Anthony Awere Template:Flagcountry	7.77
Pole vault	Okkert Brits Template:Flagcountry	5.40 =CR	Kersley Gardenne Template:Flagcountry	5.20	Mohamed Bédoui Template:Flagcountry	4.80
Triple jump	Andrew Owusu Template:Flagcountry	17.23 CR	Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa Template:Flagcountry	17.19	Oluyemi Sule Template:Flagcountry	16.37
Shot put	Burger Lambrechts Template:Flagcountry	19.78	Dhia Kamel Ahmed Template:Flagcountry	17.61	Quentin Soné Ehawa Template:Flagcountry	15.51
Discus	Frantz Kruger Template:Flagcountry	62.17	Frits Potgieter Template:Flagcountry	60.50	Mickael Conjungo Template:Flagcountry	57.52
Javelin	Marius Corbett Template:Flagcountry	79.82	Khaled Es Sayed Yassin Template:Flagcountry	72.84	Bouna Diop Template:Flagcountry	72.66
Hammer	Chris Harmse Template:Flagcountry	72.11 CR	Hakim Toumi Template:Flagcountry	69.36	Samir Haouam Template:Flagcountry	68.79
Decathlon	Rédouane Youcef Template:Flagcountry	7352 points	Mohamed Benyahia Template:Flagcountry	7093 points	Issam Abdelatif Saber Template:Flagcountry	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 Template:Flagcountry	11.05 CR	Endurance Ojokolo Template:Flagcountry	11.08	Rose Aboaje Template:Flagcountry	11.31
200 m (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Falilat Ogunkoya Template:Flagcountry	22.22 CR	Rose Aboaje Template:Flagcountry	22.83	Heide Seyerling Template:Flagcountry	22.89
400 m	Falilat Ogunkoya Template:Flagcountry	50.07 CR	Charity Opara Template:Flagcountry	50.13	Ony Paule Ratsimbazafy Template:Flagcountry	52.11
800 m	Maria de Lurdes Mutola Template:Flagcountry	1:57.95	Hasna Benhassi Template:Flagcountry	2:01.24	Julia Sakara Template:Flagcountry	2:01.55
1500 m	Jackline Maranga Template:Flagcountry	4:11.75 CR	Julia Sakara Template:Flagcountry	4:13.64	Bouchra Benthami Template:Flagcountry	4:17.83
3000 m	Zahra Ouaziz Template:Flagcountry	8:53.75	Genet Gebregiorgis Template:Flagcountry	9:13.47	Yemenashu Taye Template:Flagcountry	9:13.59
5000 m	Berhane Adere Template:Flagcountry	15:54.31 CR	Sally Barsosio Template:Flagcountry	15:59.12	Merima Denboba Template:Flagcountry	16:11.16
100 m H (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Glory Alozie Template:Flagcountry	12.77 CR	Mame Tacko Diouf Template:Flagcountry	13.08	Corien Botha Template:Flagcountry	13.25
400 m H	Nezha Bidouane Template:Flagcountry	54.24 CR	Mame Tacko Diouf Template:Flagcountry	55.06	Saidat Onanuga Template:Flagcountry	56.84
4 x 100 m	Template:Flagcountry Endurance Ojokolo Henrietta Ajaegbu Funmilola Ogundana Rose Aboaja	43.75	Template:Flagcountry Hanitriniaina Rakotrondrabe Lalao Ravaonirina Paule Ony Ratsimbazafy Rosa Rakotozafy	43.78	Template:Flagcountry Veronica Bawuah Vida Nsiah Monica Twum Mavis Akoto	43.89
4 x 400 m	Template:Flagcountry Folashade Ogundemi Rosemary Okafor Doris Jacob Falilat Ogunkoya	3:31.07 CR	Template:Flagcountry Mame Tacko Diouf Amy Mbacke Thiam Aminata Diouf Gnima Touré	3:31.07	Template:Flagcountry Myriam Leonie Mani Sylvie Mballa Eloundou Mireille Nguimgo Claudine Komgang	3:33.85
5000 m walk	Nagwa Ibrahim Ali Template:Flagcountry	24:28.42	Dounia Kara Template:Flagcountry	25:17.17	Anne-Hortense Ebéna Template:Flagcountry	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 Template:Flagcountry	1.92	Irène Tiendrébéogo Template:Flagcountry	1.84	Nkechinyere Mbaoma Template:Flagcountry	1.75
Long jump	Chioma Ajunwa Template:Flagcountry	6.78 =CR	Chinedu Odozor Template:Flagcountry	6.45	Baya Rahouli Template:Flagcountry	6.36
Triple jump	Baya Rahouli Template:Flagcountry	13.96 CR	Françoise Mbango Etone Template:Flagcountry	13.80	Kéné Ndoye Template:Flagcountry	13.30
Shot put	Veronica Abrahamse Template:Flagcountry	15.07	Amel Ben Khaled Template:Flagcountry	14.83	Hanan Ahmed Khaled Template:Flagcountry	14.68
Discus	Elizna Naudé Template:Flagcountry	50.28	Caroline Fournier Template:Flagcountry	50.28	Hanan Ahmed Khaled Template:Flagcountry	42.82
Hammer	Caroline Fournier Template:Flagcountry	54.29	Marwa Ahmed Hussein Template:Flagcountry	47.55	Djida Yalloulène Template:Flagcountry	47.43
Javelin (old type)	Lindy Leveaux Template:Flagcountry	47.56	Bernadette Ravina Template:Flagcountry	46.79	Monique Djikada Template:Flagcountry	45.61
Heptathlon	Patience Itanyi Template:Flagcountry	5376 points	Mary Dolly Zé Oyono Template:Flagcountry	5211 points	Paulette Mendy Template:Flagcountry	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)

See also

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• Results - GBR Athletics