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

Women's events

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Nigeria (NGR)	11	10	3	24
2	Kenya (KEN)	7	5	7	19
3	Morocco (MAR)	5	2	6	13
4	Algeria (ALG)	4	4	4	12
5	Senegal (SEN)	4	2	2	8
6	Egypt (EGY)	1	3	3	7
	Ghana (GHA)	1	3	3	7
8	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	3	1	5
9	Tunisia (TUN)	1	2	1	4
10	Cameroon (CMR)	1	2	0	3
11	Ivory Coast (CIV)	1	1	5	7
12	Djibouti (DJI)	1	0	0	1
	Sudan (SUD)	1	0	0	1
14	Somalia (SOM)	0	1	0	1
	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	1	0	1
16	Gabon (GAB)	0	0	2	2
17	Uganda (UGA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 nations)		39	39	38	116

See also

• 1985 in athletics (track and field)

Notes

1. The athlets ran an extra lap, making the distance 5400 metres in total.

External links

• Results – GBR Athletics
• Medallists