African Athletics U20 Championships

Sport Athletics
Competition Category Continental Championships
Years 1994—2019
Editions 14
Competitors 1533
Countries 36

Editions

Edition Host City Country Held Events Competitors Countries
1994 African Junior Athletics Championships Al-Jaza'ir ALG 6 – 8 July 1994 40 107 14
1995 African Junior Athletics Championships Bouaké CIV 20 – 22 July 1995 36 76 15
1997 African Junior Athletics Championships Ibadan NGR 20 – 23 August 1997 43 96 14
1999 African Junior Athletics Championships Tunis TUN 22 – 25 July 1999 43 127 19
2001 African Junior Athletics Championships Reduit MRI 17 – 20 August 2001 41 110 18
2003 African Junior Athletics Championships Garoua CMR 31 July – 3 August 2003 44 117 18
2005 African Junior Athletics Championships Radès TUN 1 – 4 September 2005 44 126 14
2007 African Junior Athletics Championships Ouagadougou BUR 9 – 12 August 2007 43 109 19
2009 African Junior Athletics Championships Bambous MRI 30 July – 2 August 2009 41 124 17
2011 African Junior Athletics Championships Gaborone BOT 12 – 15 May 2011 44 141 17
2013 African Junior Athletics Championships Bambous MRI 29 – 31 August 2013 40 120 16
2015 African Junior Athletics Championships Addis Abeba ETH 5 – 8 March 2015 43 135 16
2017 African Athletics U20 Championships Tlemcen ALG 29 June – 2 July 2017 43 133 13
2019 African Athletics U20 Championships Abidjan CIV 16 – 20 April 2019 42 114 18

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 South Africa RSA 118 78 56 252
2 Kenya KEN 93 84 37 214
3 Nigeria NGR 78 59 44 181
4 Ethiopia ETH 53 66 76 195
5 Egypt EGY 52 49 29 130
6 Algeria ALG 43 48 57 148
7 Morocco MAR 26 37 45 108
8 Tunisia TUN 24 24 49 97
9 Ghana GHA 13 22 21 56
10 Mauritius MRI 11 23 25 59
11 Sudan SUD 11 6 4 21
12 Senegal SEN 10 13 15 38
13 Uganda UGA 9 4 11 24
14 Burkina Faso BUR 6 12 15 33
15 Zimbabwe ZIM 6 10 7 23
16 Botswana BOT 5 9 19 33
17 Cameroon CMR 5 8 8 21
18 Ivory Coast CIV 5 5 14 24
19 Seychelles SEY 4 6 7 17
20 Gambia GAM 4 3 3 10
21 Namibia NAM 2 4 8 14
22 Mali MLI 2 1 5 8
23 Madagascar MAD 2 0 2 4
24 Libya LBA 1 2 0 3
25 Lesotho LES 1 1 1 3
= Togo TOG 1 1 1 3
27 Burundi BDI 1 0 1 2
28 Comoros COM 1 0 0 1
= Mozambique MOZ 1 0 0 1
30 Gabon GAB 0 3 0 3
31 Benin BEN 0 2 1 3
= Zambia ZAM 0 2 1 3
33 Democratic Republic of the Congo COD 0 1 0 1
34 Eritrea ERI 0 0 4 4
35 Congo CGO 0 0 1 1
= Rwanda RWA 0 0 1 1