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2012 African Championships in Athletics

Field	Value
Name	2012 African Championships
Logo	Porto Novo 2012 Logo.png
Size	180px
Colour	#FFCD57
Optional caption	Championships logo
Host city	Porto-Novo, Benin
Dates	27 June – 1 July
Stadium	Stade Charles de Gaulle
Nations participating	47
Athletes participating	569
Events	44
Records set	Championship records
Previous	2010
Next	2014

The 2012 African Championships in Athletics was held at the Stade Charles de Gaulle in Porto-Novo, Benin from 27 June to 1 July 2012. It was the first time that Benin had hosted the event.

Medal summary

Men

Decathlon
Ali Kamé
**	7511	Mourad Souissi
**	7276	Guillaume Thierry
**	7212

Women

Heptathlon
Yasmina Omrani
**	5924	Gabriela Kouassi
**	5481	Bianca Erwee
South Africa	5338

Medal table

Participating nations

A total of fifty countries and 816 athletes have stated their intention to take part in the competition – a record high. There were, however, numerous non-starters with some countries like Tanzania or Eritrea not sending any athletes after all and the actual number of participants was about 569 from 47 countries, numbers comparable to last few editions.

(13)
(1)
(33)
(16)
(9)
(4)
(19)
(2)
(1)
(6)
(1)
(13)
(3)
(6)
(12)
(4)
(56)
(3)
(10)
(28)
(1)
(43)
(2)
(8)
(15)
(4)
(10)
(8)
(16)
(2)
(6)
(11)
(43)
(8)
(5)
(1)
(16)
(10)
(2)
South Africa (69)
(4)
Swaziland (2)
(12)
(11)
(11)
(3)
(6)

References

;Daily reports

Watta, Evelyn (2012-06-28). Lambrechts grabs first gold in rain swept Porto-Novo – African champs, Day 1. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-06-28.
Watta, Evelyn (2012-06-29). Milama wins first-ever sprint title for Gabon – African champs, Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-06-29.
Watta, Evelyn (2012-06-30). Montsho and Makwala take 400m titles in Porto-Novo – African champs, Day 3. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-06-30.
Watta, Evelyn (2012-07-01). Cherono takes 10,000m for second title in Porto-Novo – African champs, Day 4. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-01.
Watta, Evelyn (2012-07-02). Burundian teen Niyonsaba takes dramatic 800m title as Nigeria top medal table in Porto-Novo – African champs, Day 5. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-02.

References

link. (2013-04-16 . Confederation of African Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-06-23.)

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