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Marrakech 2014: Fredericks, Okoro, Makwala, Amos, Obiri shine – Day 3

Kenya swept men’s 3000m steeplechase, Chinwe Okoro gave Nigeria Discus gold, and Cornel fredericks, Hellen Obiri and Botswana duo of Isaac Makwala and Nijel Amos won on day 3 at Marrakech 2014 – the 19th African Athletics Championships.

Winners on day 3 at the 19th African Senior Athletics Championships in Marrakech / Photo credit: Yomi Omogbeja
Winners on day 3 at the 19th African Senior Athletics Championships in Marrakech / Photo credit: Yomi Omogbeja

The third day of the 19th Africa senior Athletics championships – Marrakech 2014 – was a good opportunity for [link id=”96″ tax=”category” text=”Botswana”], [link id=”81″ tax=”category” text=”Kenya”] and[link id=”5″ tax=”category” text=” Nigeria”] to mark their presence on the African continent.

Kenya, as usual, dominated the podium in the 3000m steeplechase event with gold medal going to Jairus Kipchoge Birech (8:34.79) and silver to Jonathan Ndiku Muia (8:37.67), while veteran Ezekiel Kemboi settled for the bronze medal in 8:39.30.

Botswana gave a good performance in the men’s 400m and 800m, picking up the gold medals by [link id=”479″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Isaac Makwala”] (44.23 – a championship record) and [link id=”424″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Nijel Amos”] (1:48.54) respectively.

In the 400m, Isaac Makwala, the African record-holder with 44.01 secs, edged out the Glasgow 2014 silver medallist from South Africa, [link id=”475″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Wayde Van Niekerk”], to second place comfortably with the fastest 400m performance ever recorded at sea level in Africa (44.23 to 45.00) with Kenya’s Boniface Mucheru third in 45.07.

His compatriot Nijel Amos, the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth champion took the men’s 800m title from Ethiopia’s world champion[link id=”256″ tax=”post_tag” text=” Mohamed Aman”] (1:48.74) and Algeria’s Taoufik Makhloufi (1:49.08), who is the Olympic champion in 1500m.

The other great moment of the day was the victory of South Africa’s [link id=”231″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Cornel Fredericks”] in 400m hurdles in 48.78 ahead of Nigeria’s Amaechi Morton (48.92) and Kenya’s Nicholas Bett (49.03).

The third day of action was also successful for Nigerian female athletes who picked up 4 gold medals in women’s 400m, long jump, Discus and 4x100m relay.

[link id=”159″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Folashade Abugan”] (51.21) won the 400m event in a photo-finish from Zambia’s Kabange Mupopo (51.21) and compatriot Patience Okon-George (52.68).

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Commonwealth champion [link id=”502″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Ese Brume”] added the African long jump title with a jump of 6.50m ahead of her compatriot Chinazom Amadi (6.40m) and Joelle Mbumi from Cameroon (6.25m).

[link id=”511″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Chinwe Okoro”] won the women’s Discus with a Championships and national record of 59.79m ahead of compatriot Nwanneka Okwelogu (51.66m) and Morocco’s Amina Elmouden (48.21m).

[link id=”5″ tax=”category” text=”Nigeria”] won the gold medal in the men’s 4x100m relay in 38.80 ahead of  [link id=”7″ tax=”category” text=”Ghana”] (39.28) and [link id=”98″ tax=”category” text=”Algeria”] (39.89). Glasgow 2014 double sprint champion Blessing Okagbare also anchored the Nigerian women to the 4×100 relay gold in 43.56 followed by Ivory Coast, without [link id=”205″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Murielle Ahouré”], (43.99) and Ghana (44.06).

The two other finals of the day were won respectively by Kenya’s [link id=”386″ tax=”post_tag” text=”Hellen Onsando Obiri”] in 4:09.53 in 1500m and Morocco’s Rhiziane Siba, who cleared 1.80m to win the women’s high jump gold.

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