2004 African Championships in Athletics explained

2004 African Championships
Colour:	FFCD57
Dates:	14–18 July
Stadium:	Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat
Events:	44
Previous:	2002 Tunis / Radès
Next:	2006 Bambous

The 14th African Championships in Athletics were held in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo in July, 2004. Since African Championships is a biennial event, this edition was contested only a month before 2004 Summer Olympics. Thus some top athletes shunned the event. On the other hand, many athletes use the competition to prepare for the Olympics.

Medal summary

Men

100 m	Olusoji Fasuba	10.21	Idrissa Sanou	10.37	Jaysuma Saidy	10.43
200 m	Joseph Batangdon	20.46	Ambrose Ezenwa	20.75	Morné Nagel	20.83
400 m	Eric Milazar	45.03	Ezra Sambu	45.33	Young Talkmore Nyongani	45.69
800 m	William Yiampoy	1:45.36	Hezekiél Sepeng	1:45.55	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	1:45.87
1500 m	Paul Korir	3:39.48	Peter Roko Ashak	3:41.31	Yassine Bensghir	3:41.49
5000 m	Zwedo Maregu	13:47.77	Boniface Songok	13:48.06	Hillary Chenonge	13:48.44
10,000 m	Charles Kamathi	28:07.83	Abebe Dinkesa	28:10.49	Yebeltal Admasu	28:28.59
3000 m s'chase	David Chemweno	8:17.31	Richard Matelong	8:26.34	Abdelatif Chemlal	8:31.01
110 m hurdles	Todd Matthews Jouda	13.70	Shaun Bownes	13.80	Frikkie van Zyl	13.81
400 m hurdles	Llewellyn Herbert	48.90	Julius Bungei	49.56	Ockert Cilliers	49.58
20 km walk	Julius Sawe	1:27:43	Hassanine Sebei	1:28:35	Moussa Aouanouk	1:29:02
4 × 100 m relay		38.91		39.59		39.87
4 × 400 m relay		3:02.38		3:02.66	Marcus La Grange Werner Botha Hendrick Mokganyetsi Arnaud Malherbe	3:03.81
High jump	Kabelo Mmono	2.17	Boubacar Séré	2.10	Khemraj Naiko	2.10
Pole vault	Béchir Zaghouani	5.20	Karim Sène	5.00	Mohamed Karbib	4.60
Long jump	Jonathan Chimier	8.06	Ndiss Kaba Badji	7.86	Nabil Adamou	7.72
Triple jump	Olivier Sanou	16.31	Hamza Ménina	16.02	Thierry Adanabou	15.93
Shot put	Janus Robberts	21.02	Burger Lambrechts	18.78	Yasser Ibrahim Farag	18.51
Discus throw	Frantz Kruger	63.85	Hannes Hopley	63.50	Nabil Kiram	52.12
Hammer throw	Chris Harmse	75.90	Saber Souid	70.71	Ahmed Abd El Raouf	67.87
Javelin throw	Gerhardus Pienaar	78.31	Gerbrandt Grobler	76.93	Willie Human	71.48
Decathlon	Anis Riahi	7200 points	Selwyn Lieutier	6882 points	Celestin Moussambote Kengué	6478 points

Women

100 m	Endurance Ojokolo	11.33	Mercy Nku	11.36	Geraldine Pillay	11.40
200 m	Geraldine Pillay	23.18	Kadiatou Camara	23.22	Nadjina Kaltouma	23.29
400 m	Fatou Bintou Fall	50.62	Nadjina Kaltouma	50.80	Hortense Béwouda	51.15
800 m	Saïda El Mehdi	2:03.52	Charity Wandia	2:04.08	Caroline Chepkwony	2:04.58
1500 m	Nancy Lagat	4:24.56	Saïda El Mehdi	4:24.87	Jeruto Kiptum	4:25.85
5000 m	Etalemahu Kidane	16:25.83	Priscah Jepleting	16:26.15	Angele Haronsimana	16:55.99
10,000 m	Eyerusalem Kuma	31:56.77	Irene Kwambai	31:57.54	Catherine Kirui	32:35.71
100 m hurdles	Lalanirina Rosa Rakotozafy	13.73	Carole Kaboud Mebam	14.07	Alima Soura	14.38
400 m hurdles	Surita Febbraio	55.12	Mame Tacko Diouf	55.62	Zahra Lachgar	57.12
3000 m St.	Bouchra Chaabi	9:53.46 CR	Nawal Baïbi	10:11.42	Tebogo Masehla	10:34.40
20 km walk	Grace Wanjiru	1:42:45	Nicolene Cronje	1:43:57	Bahia Boussad	1:46:12
4 × 100 m relay		44.32		44.42		45.21
4 × 400 m relay		3:29.41	Surita Febbraio Adri Shoeman Heide Seyerling Estie Wittstock	3:30.12		3:30.77
High jump	Hestrie Cloete	1.95	Samantha Dodd	1.60	Janice Josephs	1.50
Pole vault	Syrine Balti	4.00	Samantha Dodd	3.80	Nancy Cheekoussen	3.70
Long jump	Kene Ndoye	6.64	Kadiatou Camara	6.29	Yah Koïta	6.27
Triple jump	Yamilé Aldama	14.90	Kene Ndoye	14.44	Mariette Mien	12.61
Shot put	Wafa Ismail El Baghdadi	15.53	Amel Ben Khaled	15.45	Alifatou Djibril	15.16
Discus throw	Elizna Naude	57.50	Alifatou Djibril	52.62	Hiba Meshili Abu Zaghari	50.58
Hammer throw	Marwa Hussein Arafat	66.14 CR	Mouna Dani	57.98	Hayat El Ghazi	57.67
Javelin throw	Sunette Viljoen	60.13	Aïda Sellam	54.68	Cecilia Kiplagat	48.78
Heptathlon	Margaret Simpson	6154 points	Janice Josephs	5785 points	Céline Laporte	5172 points