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The 1989 African Championships in Athletics were held in Lagos, Nigeria between 4 and 8 August.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.4 m/s)	Amadou Mbagnick Mbaye  Senegal	10.60	Salaam Gariba  Ghana	10.64	Patrick Nwankwo  Nigeria	10.66
200 metres (wind: -1.2 m/s)	Olapade Adeniken  Nigeria	20.74	Davidson Ezinwa  Nigeria	20.82	Nelson Boateng  Ghana	20.84
400 metres	Gabriel Tiacoh  Ivory Coast	45.25	Simeon Kipkemboi  Kenya	46.29	Hachim Ndiaye  Senegal	46.69
800 metres	Nixon Kiprotich  Kenya	1:45.71	Joseph Chesire  Kenya	1:45.96	Babacar Niang  Senegal	1:46.09
1500 metres	Joseph Chesire  Kenya	3:39.43	Robert Kibet  Kenya	3:40.05	Nixon Kiprotich  Kenya	3:41.51
5000 metres	John Ngugi  Kenya	13:22.07	Addis Abebe  Ethiopia	13:35.09	Moses Tanui  Kenya	13:36.79
10,000 metres	Addis Abebe  Ethiopia	27:51.07	Moses Tanui  Kenya	28:22.90	Bedilu Kibret  Ethiopia	28:29.14
Marathon	Tsegaye Sengni  Ethiopia	2:26:26	Kebede Balcha  Ethiopia	2:26:35	Tekla Gebrselassie  Ethiopia	2:26:55
3000 metre steeplechase	Azzedine Brahmi  Algeria	8:31.29	Micah Boinett  Kenya	8:31.79	Boniface Merande  Kenya	8:35.35
110 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Ikechukwu Mbadugha  Nigeria	14.16	Noureddine Tadjine  Algeria	14.18	Akwasi Abrefa  Ghana	14.56
400 metres hurdles	Henry Amike  Nigeria	49.58	Hamidou Mbaye  Senegal	50.76	Saïd Aberkan  Morocco	50.84
4 × 100 metres relay	Nigeria	39.94	Kenya	40.78	Ivory Coast	40.91
4 × 400 metres relay	Kenya	3:04.44	Nigeria	3:05.54	Senegal	3:08.18
20 kilometre road walk	Mohamed Bouhalla  Algeria	1:30:43	Abdelwahab Ferguène  Algeria	1:36:49	Bekele Lema  Ethiopia	1:45:25
High jump	Othmane Belfaa  Algeria	2.20	Abdenour Krim  Algeria	2.15	Boubacar Guèye  Senegal	2.10
Pole vault	Sami Si Mohamed  Algeria	4.90	Issam Ben Mohamed  Tunisia	4.80	Samir Agsous  Algeria	4.60
Long jump	Yusuf Alli  Nigeria	8.27	Ayodele Aladefa  Nigeria	7.89	Badara Mbengue  Senegal	7.88
Triple jump	Eugene Koranteng  Ghana	16.83	Toussaint Rabenala  Madagascar	16.80	Paul Nioze  Seychelles	16.74
Shot put	Robert Welikhe  Kenya	17.28	Chima Ugwu  Nigeria	16.76	Vincent Oghene  Nigeria	16.62
Discus throw	Hassan Ahmed Hamad  Egypt	53.44	Vincent Oghene  Nigeria	52.98	Ikechukwu Chika  Nigeria	50.70
Hammer throw	Hakim Toumi  Algeria	69.98	Hassan Chahine  Morocco	66.86	Djamel Zouiche  Algeria	63.52
Javelin throw	Pius Bazighe  Nigeria	68.96	Mongi Alimi  Tunisia	68.42	William Sang  Kenya	68.06
Decathlon	Mourad Mahour Bacha  Algeria	7080	Hatem Bachar  Tunisia	6757	Stanley Flowers  Zimbabwe	6519 (NR)

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Mary Onyali  Nigeria	11.22	Tina Iheagwam  Nigeria	11.28	Rufina Uba  Nigeria	11.47
200 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s)	Mary Onyali  Nigeria	23.00	Falilat Ogunkoya  Nigeria	23.74	Lalao Ravaonirina  Madagascar	23.94
400 metres	Falilat Ogunkoya  Nigeria	51.22	Fatima Yusuf  Nigeria	52.30	Airat Bakare  Nigeria	52.38
800 metres	Hassiba Boulmerka  Algeria	2:06.80	Zewde Haile Mariam  Ethiopia	2:08.20	Emebet Shiferaw  Ethiopia	2:09.30
1500 metres	Hassiba Boulmerka  Algeria	4:13.85	Hellen Kimaiyo  Kenya	4:16.42	Emebet Shiferaw  Ethiopia	4:20.81
3000 metres	Hellen Kimaiyo  Kenya	9:14.97	Jane Ngotho  Kenya	9:15.43	Luchia Yishak  Ethiopia	9:24.31
10,000 metres	Jane Ngotho  Kenya	33:05.60	Tigist Moreda  Ethiopia	34:05.58	Marcianne Mukamurenzi  Rwanda	34:09.48
100 metres hurdles	Dinah Yankey  Ghana	13.68	Hope Obika  Nigeria	13.80	Mosun Adesina  Nigeria	13.86
400 metres hurdles	Maria Usifo  Nigeria	55.45	Marie Womplou  Ivory Coast	57.57	Zewde Haile Mariam  Ethiopia	59.51
4 × 100 metres relay	Nigeria ? ? Beatrice Utondu ?	44.6	Ghana	45.4	Ivory Coast	46
4 × 400 metres relay	Nigeria Airat Bakare Falilat Ogunkoya Charity Opara Fatima Yusuf	3:33.12	Kenya	3:39.60	Ivory Coast	3:41.87
5000 metre track walk	Agnetha Chelimo  Kenya	26:36.18	Mercy Nyambura  Kenya	27:08.58
High jump	Lucienne N'Da  Ivory Coast	1.81	Nkechi Madubuko  Nigeria	1.78	Yasmina Azzizi  Algeria	1.78
Long jump	Chioma Ajunwa  Nigeria	6.53	Beatrice Utondu  Nigeria	6.20	Christy Opara  Nigeria	6.18
Shot put	Hanan Ahmed Khaled  Egypt	14.28	Mariam Nnodu  Nigeria	14.02	Ann Otutu  Nigeria	13.88
Discus throw	Zoubida Laayouni  Morocco	51.14	Hanan Ahmed Khaled  Egypt	50.32	Nabila Mouelhi  Tunisia	46.80
Javelin throw	Chinweoke Chikwelu  Nigeria	52.18	Milka Johnson  Kenya	50.32	Yasmina Azzizi  Algeria	48.16
Heptathlon	Yasmina Azzizi  Algeria	5957	Nacèra Zaaboub (Achir)  Algeria	5573	Chinweoke Chikwelu  Nigeria	5503

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Nigeria	14	12	9	35
2	Algeria	9	4	4	17
3	Kenya	8	11	4	23
4	Ethiopia	2	4	7	13
5	Ghana	2	2	2	6
6	Ivory Coast	2	1	3	6
7	Egypt	2	1	0	3
8	Senegal	1	1	5	7
9	Morocco	1	1	1	3
10	Tunisia	0	3	1	4
11	Madagascar	0	1	1	2
12	Rwanda	0	0	1	1
	Seychelles	0	0	1	1
	Zimbabwe	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		41	41	40	122

See also

• 1989 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• Results – GBR Athletics

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