The 2012
African Championships in Athletics was held at the
Stade Charles de Gaulle
Stade Charles de Gaulle is a multi-use stadium in Porto-Novo, Benin named after Charles de Gaulle. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is used as the home stadium of AS Dragons FC de l'Ouémé
The Association Sportive Drag ...
in
Porto Novo,
Benin
Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the nort ...
from 27 June to 1 July 2012. It was the first time that Benin had hosted the event.
Medal summary
Men
Women
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.
21/06/2012 African Championships : record of participation
. Confederation of African Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-06-23. 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)
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* (33)
* (16)
* (9)
* (4)
* (19)
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* (1)
* (6)
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* (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)
* (69)
* (4)
* (2)
* (12)
* (11)
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References
;Daily reports
* Watta, Evelyn (2012-06-28)
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body fo ...
. Retrieved on 2012-06-28.
* Watta, Evelyn (2012-06-29)
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body fo ...
. Retrieved on 2012-06-29.
* Watta, Evelyn (2012-06-30)
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body fo ...
. Retrieved on 2012-06-30.
* Watta, Evelyn (2012-07-01)
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body fo ...
. Retrieved on 2012-07-01.
* Watta, Evelyn (2012-07-02)
IAAF
World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body fo ...
. Retrieved on 2012-07-02.
External links
Official site
Results
Confederation of African Athletics website
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