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Fasuba Claims African Sprint Title in Mauritius

By Duro Ikhazuagbe, 08.10.2006

Commonwealth Games sprint silver medalist, Olusoji Fasuba yesterday justified why he is the continent’s fastest man when he clocked 10.37secs to win the 100m event of the ongoing 15th African Senior Athletics Championship in Mauritius.

Though his timing was way behind the 9.87 secs he ran at the IAAF Meet in Doha, Qatar few months back, he nonetheless proved he’s the man to beat in the event on the continent.

Former champion, Uchenna Emedolu who had looked forward to the African championship to redeem his sagging fortunes in the sprint was again forced to play second fiddle to Fasuba as the 10.44secs he clocked could only earn him the silver medal.
However, while the Nigerian male runners were celebrating, there was nothing to cheer in the female camp.
Only Endurance Ojokolo’s bronze in a time of 11.95 seconds was all the girls had to show for their struggle in the sprint. Highly rated Gloria Kemasuode was dismal in a distant seventh placing with 12.14 secs.
Chinazom Amadi also salvaged a bronze in the long jump pit with a leap of 6.23m to place third. Chinedu Odozor could only make sixth place with 6.01m.
Meanwhile, the Council African Athletics Confederation (AAC), meeting in Port Louis Mauritius on the eve of the 2006 edition of the African Athletics Championships, has issued a resolution supporting the re-election of Lamine Diack as IAAF President at next year’s elections. The elections have been scheduled to hold during the IAAF Congress in Osaka, Japan on 22-23 August 2007.
The AAC Council statement states: “Taking into account the forthcoming IAAF elections in 2007 and noting with satisfaction the excellent work accomplished by IAAF President Lamine Diack, we are urging Mr. Lamine Diack to stand for re-election for another term in order to continue serving the development of athletics around the world.”

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Like to see the wind readings on those!

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Me too…I don’t think 10.37 is scaring anybody!

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The wind was -1.9 m/s… But for some reason I believe the wind was at its lowest rate when that reading was taken. I mean the wind was -3.8 in the women’s final just before the mens. And the wind was so consistent in the range of -2.5 to -3.5 in the heats. The Long jump provided no records or official jumps because they were jumping oppesite to the home straight.

Amr who is a close friend of mine and training partner was looking very good before he left to Mauritius. He would have probably ran 10.3 in normal conditions. He just ran 10.81 and came 6th in the final. So guess what our federation will do… They will hang him and stop his money and keep blaming him for the time. And they will tell him that if he was in top form he could have beat fasuba. blah blah blahh… And of course that is because each member of our federation is a very clever and educated man about track and field. Now lets say I try to stand for him and say the wind was -1.9 or whatever. They will attack me feuriously and they will say what wind. The wind is nothing. it will affect him with .01 or something. Then I might get them a wind correction calculator and a few articles from well respected people to show them the truth. And they will say that these people are stupid and they have reached the top by luck!!! Poor Amr.

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despite the wind and time congrats to FASUBA & PJ in another major title.

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Wind is wind, it changes, thats the reason to have it for each race and not just get one reading at the beginning of the day, I’m sure the heat wudnt complain if all the other races were +3.5 and theirs was +1.9.

Either way a win is a win, so good race for Fasuba.

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It’s like the inverse of Doha. :wink:

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Defar defeats Dibaba; Van Zyl surges to victory – African Champs Day Two
Friday 11 August 2006
Bambous, Mauritius – Louis van Zyl ended South Africa’s gold medal drought on the second day of the Africa Championships when he won the 400m Hurdles at the Germain Commarmond Stadium on Thursday (10).

Van Zyl surged with 250m to go to the finish to clock 49.43 seconds. Compatriot Alwyn Myburgh was runner up in 49.88. However, it was the little-known Mozambican Leonel Kurt Couto who upset the form book by beating another South African Pieter de Villiers to the bronze medal. Van Zyl was over the moon about the prospect of representing the continent at the forthcoming IAAF World Cup in Athens, Greece (16 / 17 September), a selection which was secured by his victory.

Omar El-Ghazaly (Egypt) winner of the Discus in Mauritius
(Mark Ouma)

“It is a great honour to have the opportunity to represent Africa at the World Cup in Athens next month. I will use the remaining World Athletics Tour meets to polish up my speed. I want to give back to Africa a great performance, possibly breaking the 48 seconds barriers in Athens,” Van Zyl revealed.

[b]False starts unsettle Fasuba

Elsewhere Nigeria’s Olusoji Fasuba, the African record holder retained his championship 100m title winning the race in 10.37. Teammate Uchenna Emedolu (10.44) was runner-up ahead of Ghana Eric Nkansah (10.65).

“The two false starts affected our performance,” said Fasuba. “In the second start we ran for almost 40m before being called back. That takes a lot out of an athlete. Now my focus is on Athens where I hope to run a fast time possibly a sub 10 seconds,” says Fasuba. [/b]
Defar defeats Dibaba

After a series of solid defeats in the IAAF Golden League Olympic 5000m champion and World record holder Meseret Defar (15:56.00) prevailed over fellow Ethiopian, the World 5000m and 10,000m title holder, Tirunesh Dibaba (15:56.04) in the final sprint for the finish in the women’s 5000m.

This was a slow tactical affair with Ethiopia’s Meselech Melkamu, Dibaba and the two Kenyans Isabella Ochichi, the Olympic silver medallist, and Chibiwott Kibet taking turns leading but never really breaking away from the tight pack that also included Morocco’s 22-year-old Mariem Alaoui Selsouli

The defining moment came in the last 300m when Defar and Dibaba managed to outpace the rest. “Our aim was just to ensure Ethiopia wins the race. There were no pace makers and with the headwind on the back straight it was going to be difficult to clock fast times. I am the Olympic champion in this event and I want to make sure that Africa wins in Athens,” said Defar.

Egypt tops the medal table

Meanwhile, Omar El-Ghazaly, 22, (61.11m) ensured Egypt retained the lead on the overall medal table with a total of three golds when he led teammate Ibrahim Yassar Fathy (54.38) in a 1-2 Egyptian finish in the men’s Discus Throw. Morocco’s Nabil Kiram (53.41) picked the bronze medal.

“I am not happy with the distance I threw today. My technique was not that good. I hope to improve by at least four metres at the World Cup in Athens,” says El Ghazaly.

Other winners yesterday were in the women’s events, Nigerian Toyin Augustus (100m Hurdles), Tunisia’s Syrine Balti (Pole Vault), Vida Anim (100m), and Cameroon’s Josephine Bikie Mbarga (Long Jump).

Tunisian Mourad Souissi won the men’s Decathlon.

Mark Ouma for the IAAF

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SELECTED LEADING RESULTS

NR denotes National Record
PB denotes Personal Best

Finals only

MEN

100m (-1.9)
1 Olusoji Fasuba (Nigeria) 10.37
2 Uchenna Emedolu (Nigeria) 10.44
3 Eric Nkansah (Ghana) 10.65

400m Hurdles
1 Louis van Zyl (South Africa) 49.43
2 Alwyn Myburgh (South Africa) 49.88
3 Leonel Kurt Couto (Mozambique) 50.72

5000m
1 Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia) 14:03.41
2 Mike Kigen (Kenya) 14:05.12
3 Moses Kipsiro (Uganda) 14:05.20

Long Jump
1 Ignisious Gaisah (Ghana) 8.51 (+3.7)
2 Khotso Mokoena (South Africa) 8.45 (+4.2)
3 Issam Nima (Algeria) 8.22 (+2.4)
4 Gable Garenamotse (Botswana) 8.02 (3.1)

Discus Throw
1 Omar El-Ghazaly (Egypt) 61.11
2 Ibrahim Yassar (Egypt) 54.38
3 Nabil Kiram (Morocco) 53.41

Shot Put
1 Ibrahim Yassar (Egypt) 18.93
2 Janus Robberts (South Africa) 17.88
3 Mohammed Medded (Tunisia) 17.87

Decathlon
1 Hamdi Dhouidi (Tunisia) 7566 points
2 Mourad souissi (Algeria) 7113 points
3 Terence Wepener (South Africa) 7084 points

WOMEN

100m (-3.8)
1 Vida Anim (Ghana) 11.58
2 Geraldine Pillay (South Africa) 11.67
3 Endurance Ojokolo (Nigeria) 11.95

100m Hurdles (-1.4)
1 Toyin Augustus (Nigeria) 13.44
2 Carole Me-ban kaboud (Cameroon) 13.85
3 Gnima Faye (Senegal) 13.95

5000m
1 Meseret Defar (Ethiopia) 15:56.00
2 Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) 15:56.04
3 Jebiwot Kibet (Kenya) 15:57.14

Long Jump
1 Josephine Bike Mbarga (Cameroon) 6.33 (+2.9)
2 Kene Ndoye (Senegal) 6.30 (+1.8)
3 Chinazom Amadi (Nigeria) 6.23 (+3.0)

Pole Vault
1 Syrine Balti (Tunisia) 4.21
2 Dinar Nisrine (Morocco) 3.60
3 Lindi Roux (South Africa) 3.60

Hammer Throw
1 Marwa Hussein Arafat (Egypt) 62.16
2 Hayat Elghazi (Morocco) 59.33
3 Blessing Egwu (Nigeria) 51.77

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South Africans steal the show - African Championships report - Day Four
Sunday 13 August 2006
South Africa won four gold medals to signal their intention of retaining their top position in the medal standings at the Africa Athletics Championships at the Germain Commarmond Stadium in bambous Mauritius on Saturday.

South Africa’s Justine Robbeson (the reigning World Junior Heptathlon champion) won the women’s javelin with a third round effort of 60.60m. What’s more she set a new Championships record.

“This is a nice way of coming back after being away for a year with a back injury. I could have thrown further if it was not for the strong head wind during the competition,” says Robbeson.

Earlier Chris Harmse (South Africa) won the men’s Hammer Throw with a 77.55m effort. This was a 1.49m improvement over the Championships record he set in Brazzaville, Congo two years ago.

“The wind was a little strong today and that hindered me from reaching the 80m mark,” said the Africa hammer record holder. “With the Lord’s blessing, I will throw much further at the World Cup,” said Harmse. South Africa bagged two more medals through Okkert Brits (5.20m) in Pole Vault and Janice Josephs (5876 points) in the Heptathlon.

Meanwhile Kenya prevailed in their dual with Ethiopia in the women’s 10,000m. Edith Masai and Isabella Ochichi took turns leading the race. They denied Ethiopia’s Kiros Abeye, Bezunesh Bekele and Ejegayehu Dibaba, the chance to settle in the race, while the youthful Emily Chebet bid her time.

In the last two laps Masai and Ochichi broke away. Masai (31:27.96) eventually outpaced Ochichi (31:29.43) in the sprint for the finish line. Both were inside the previous Championships record of 31:32.25 set by Ethiopia’s Deratu Tulu. Chebet overtook Abeye on the home straight to ensure Kenya’s clean sweep of the medal.

Morocco’s Tariku Bouguetaib (17.25) and Younes Moudrik (16.58) won the gold and bronze medal in the men’s Triple Jump, while South Africa’s Khotose Mokoena (16.67) bagged his second silver medal of the championships. Elsewhere Tunisian Eymen Ahmed Ben won the 110m Hurdles.

Going into the final day of the five-day contest South Africa tops the medals standing. Kenya is second ahead of Nigeria. The medals are spread out among 20 countries.

Mark Ouma for the IAAF

Chris Harmse winner of the African Championships
(Mark Ouma)

Click here for full results

Selected results
AR denotes Africa Record
CR Championships Record
NR denotes National Record
PB denotes Personal Best

Men
100m (-1.9)
1 Olusoji Fasuba (Nigeria) 10.37
2 Uchenna Emedolu (Nigeria) 10.44
3 Eric Nkansah (Ghana) 10.65

400m
1 Gary Kikaya (Demo. Rep. of Congo) 45.03
2 Paul Gorris (South Africa) 45.50
3Young Talkmore Nyongani (Zimbabwe) 45.60

110m Hurdles (-2.8)
1 Eymen Ahmed Ben (Tunisia) 13.77
2 Berlioz Randrianmiiiaja (Madagascar) 14.03
3 Ruan de Vries (South Africa) 14.05

400m Hurdles
1 Louis van Zyl (South Africa) 49.43
2 Alwyn Myburgh (South Africa) 49.88
3 Leonel Kurt Couto (Mozambique) 50.72

800m
1 Alex Kipchirchir (Kenya) 1:46.62
2 Ismail Ahmed Ismail (Sudan) 1:46.65
3 Alfred Kirwa( Kenya) 1:46.85

3000m Steeplechase
1 Paul Kipsiele Koech (Kenya) 8:11.74 (CR)
2 Abdelkader Hachlaf (Morocco) 8:33.52
3 Ruben Ramolefi (South Africa) 8:39.67

5000m
1 Kenenisa Bekele (Ethiopia) 14:03.41
2 Mike Kigen (Kenya) 14:05.12
3 Moses Kipsiro (Uganda) 14:05.20

Long Jump
1 Ignisious Gaisah (Ghana) 8.51 (+3.7)
2 Khotso Mokoena (South Africa) 8.45 (+4.2)
3 Issam Nima (Algeria) 8.22 (+2.4)
4 Gable Garenamotse (Botswana) 8.02 (3.1)

Triple Jump
1 Tariku Bouguetaib (Morocco) 17.25 (+4.2)
2 Khotso Mokoena (South Africa) 16.67 (+3.6)
3 Younes Moudrik (Morocco) 16.58 (+3.7)

Pole Vault
1 Okkert Brits (South Africa) 5.20
2 Abderamme Tamada (Tunisia) 5.15
3 Hamdi Dhouidi (Tunisia) 4.80

Discus
1 Omar Ahmed ElGazaly (Egypt) 61.11
2 Ibrahim Yassar (Egypt) 54.38
3 Nabil Kiram (Morocco) 53.41

Shot Put
1 Ibrahim Yassar (Egypt) 18.93
2 Janus Robberts (South Africa) 17.88
3 Mohammed Medded (Tunisia) 17.87

Hammer Throw
1 Chris Harmse (South Africa) 77.55 CR
2 Saber Souid (Tunisia) 72.66
3 Mohammed Ana Mohsen (Egypt) 69.22

Decathlon
1 Hamdi Dhouidi (Tunisia) 7,566 points
2 Mourad souissi (Algeria) 7,113 points
3 Terence Wepener (South Africa) 7,084 points

Women
100m (-3.8)
1 Vida Anim (Ghana) 11.58
2 Geraldine Pillay (South Africa) 11.67
3 Endurance Ojokolo (Nigeria) 11.95

400m
1 Amy Mbacke Thiem (Senegal) 52.22
2 Amantle Montsho (Botswana) 52.68
3 Louise Ayetotche (Cote d’Ivoire) 52.92

100m Hurdles (-1.4)
1 Toyin Augustus (Nigeria) 13.44
2 Carole Me-ban kaboud (Cameroon) 13.85
3 Gnima Faye (Senegal) 13.95

1500m
1 Nouria Merah Benida (Algeria) 4:23.26
2 Safa Issaoui (Tunisia) 4:24.08
3 Berhane Hirphsa (Ethiopia) 4:24.09

3000m Steeplechase
1 Jeruto Kiptum (Kenya) 10:00.02
2 Habiba Ghribi (Tunisia) 10:10.93
3 Chaabi Bouchra (Morocco) 10:11.52

5000m
1 Meseret Defar (Ethiopia) 15:56.00
2 Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) 15:56.04
3 Jebiwot Kibet (Kenya) 15:57.14

10,000m
1 Edith Masai (Kenya) 31:27.96 CR
2 Isabella Ochichi (Kenya) 31:29.43
3 Emily Chebet (Kenya) 31:33.39

Triple Jump
1 Josephine Bike Mbarga (Cameroon) 6.33 (+2.9)
2 Kene Ndoye (Senegal) 6.30 (+1.8)
3 Chinazom Amadi (Nigeria) 6.23 (+3.0)

High Jump
1 Rene van der Merwe (South Africa) 1.84
2 Nneka Ukuh (Nigeria) 1.80
3 Sara Bouaoudia (Algeria) 1.75

Pole Vault
1 Syrine Balti (Tunisia) 4.21
2 Dinar Nisrine (Morocco) 3.60
3 Lindi Roux (South Africa) 3.60

Javelin
1 Justine Robbeson (South Africa) 60.60 PB/AR
2 Sunette Viljoen (South Africa) 55.64
3 Lindy Leveau (Seychelles) 54.41

Discus
1 Elizna Naude (South Africa) 55.42
2 Vivian Chukwuemeka (Nigeria) 49.63
3 Suzanne Kragbe (Cote d’Ivoire) 49.05

Hammer Throw
1 Marwa Hussein Arafat (Egypt) 62.16
2 Hayat Elghazi (Morocco) 59.33
3 Blessing Egwu (Nigeria) 51.77

Heptathlon
1 Janice Josephs (South Africa) 5876 points
2 Celine Laporte (Seychelles) 4932 points
3 Nadege Foe Essama (Cameroon) 3808 points

4x100m
1 Ghana 44.43
2 Nigeria 44.52
3 Cameroon 46.43

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The day before yesterday I saw Amr’s coach while walking in a mall. He stood in the middle and started shouting. Amr is messing up, he is messing his carrier. He is makeing me ill. Why is he running that slow!!! Of course I couldn’t dare talk to him about the wind issue. But god… Amr is so stupid!! running 21.07 the next day in the 200m heats(fastest athlete in the heats) in a strong head wind and then missing the final with a poor semi… I can’t understand why you should run 21.0 in head wind in the heats!! while everyone is running 21.5 or something and getting an easy place in the semi’s!!! Sherwin Vries is in the final now even though he ran 22 in the heats… That is clever…

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congrats to fasuba. according to his 9.85, he could be on to something very special in the future.

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African Champion, the final was very tough, not only because he was the favourite, but also because Emedolu is always there when it counts and you need to be worth at least sub 10.10 to beat him, and too much false starts hit the guy’s nerves. Olu had similar situation in Commonwealth Semis where Frater and MLF get disqualified. Olu just confirmed that he has good nerves and don’t panic when problems occure. Africans are used to it anyway, with the constant delays and numerous problems during competitions there.
The conditions were terrible to set fine performances in sprints and the guys new it. Now way to hope a fast time the wind was blowing too much. Olu qualified with the least efforts in heats 11.06 and semis 10.71 and didn’t tried too much in final. Wind readings means nothing when there are such wind bursts, Olu said he alsmost fell down with 20m to go because of a sudden big head wind.
The gold at 4x100m was also a great moment even with poor passings and slow times.

African Champs didn’t received much attention in spite of the main stars beeing there (Bekele, Mutola, Defar, Fasuba…) in the shadow of European Champs, but the media and adds there were poor and information difficult to get.

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who were the 4 guys on the nigerian relay?
Olu, emedolu, emelieze and?