Athletics at the African Games
Athletics
First event1965 Republic of the Congo Brazzaville
Occur everyfour years
Last event2019 Morocco Rabat
Next event2023 Accra  Ghana
Best Nigeria (NGR)

Athletics is an African Games event ever since the inaugural edition in Brazzaville, Congo, at the 1965 All-Africa Games, and has continued to feature prominently at the competition in each of its subsequent editions.

Editions

GamesYearHostEvents
MenWomen
I1965Brazzaville186
II1973Lagos2113
III1978Algiers2314
IV1987Nairobi2318
V1991Cairo2318
VI1995Harare2320
VII1999Johannesburg2322
VIII2003Abuja2322
IX2007Algiers2323
X2011Maputo2323
XI2015Brazzaville2323
XII2019Rabat2323

Events

Men's events

Event65737887919599030711Years
Current program
100 metres 10
200 metres 10
400 metres 10
800 metres 10
1500 metres 10
5000 metres 10
10,000 metres 9
Marathon 7
Half marathon 2
110 metres hurdles 10
400 metres hurdles 10
3000 metres steeplechase 10
4 × 100 metres relay 10
4 × 400 metres relay 10
20 km walk 8
Long jump 10
Triple jump 10
High jump 10
Pole vault 10
Shot put 10
Discus throw 10
Hammer throw 9
Javelin throw 10
Decathlon 8
Events18212323232323232323

Women's events

Event65737887919599030711Years
Current program
100 metres 10
200 metres 9
400 metres 9
800 metres 9
1500 metres 9
5000 metres 5
10,000 metres 7
Marathon 3
Half marathon 2
80 metres hurdles 1
100 metres hurdles 9
400 metres hurdles 8
3000 metres steeplechase 3
4 × 100 metres relay 10
4 × 400 metres relay 9
20 km walk 4
5000 metre track walk 3
Long jump 10
Triple jump 5
High jump 10
Pole vault 4
Shot put 8
Discus throw 9
Hammer throw 4
Javelin throw 10
Pentathlon 1
Heptathlon 7
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Medal table

Excluding Para-Athletics.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Nigeria (NGR)1319758286
2 Kenya (KEN)748467225
3 South Africa (RSA)393933111
4 Ethiopia (ETH)373736110
5 Ghana (GHA)24322985
6 Algeria (ALG)22323084
7 Egypt (EGY)20181250
8 Tunisia (TUN)1815942
9 Senegal (SEN)14161747
10 Ivory Coast (CIV)1481941
11 Uganda (UGA)12101840
12 Botswana (BOT)113115
13 Cameroon (CMR)78520
14 Sudan (SUD)73111
15 Mauritius (MRI)43512
16 Mozambique (MOZ)4206
17 Tanzania (TAN)34613
18 Mali (MLI)3227
19 Namibia (NAM)291526
20 Madagascar (MAD)23712
21 Eritrea (ERI)2024
22 Zimbabwe (ZIM)14813
23 Seychelles (SEY)1449
24 Burkina Faso (BUR)1359
25 Republic of the Congo (CGO)1269
26 Sierra Leone (SLE)1203
27 Chad (CHA)1045
28 Burundi (BDI)1034
29 Swaziland (SWZ)1012
30 Liberia (LBR)1001
 Somalia (SOM)1001
 Zambia (ZAM)1001
33 Togo (TOG)0246
34 Benin (BEN)0123
35 Lesotho (LES)0112
36 Rwanda (RWA)0101
 The Gambia (GAM)0101
38 Central African Republic (CAF)0011
 Guinea (GUI)0011
Totals (39 entries)4614464121319

Medalists

Games records

See also

References

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