The African Combined Events Championships (French: Championnats d'Afrique d'Épreuves Combinées) is an international athletics competition between African athletes in the disciplines of men's decathlon and women's heptathlon. It became part of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge circuit in 2011.[1]
The two-day event was established in 1999, when it was held in the Algerian capital of Algiers. A second edition was scheduled for 2003, to be held in Réduit, Mauritius, but this plan was abandoned.[2] The second edition of the event was held in Tunis two years later and it was held along with the African Race Walking Championships.[3] Réduit has been the regular host for the competition since 2009, with the last three championships having been held at the town's Maryse Justin Stadium. In 2012, an open track and field meeting, organised by former Mauritian sprinter Stéphan Buckland, was held alongside the main combined events meeting.[4]
Ghana's Margaret Simpson and Ali Kamé of Madagascar are both three time champions of their respective events. Kamé's winning score of 7685 points in 2011 is the event record for the decathlon (as well as being a Malagasy record).[5] Simpson set the current heptathlon record of 6184 points in 2012.[6]
The titles contested at this championships are considered separate from the combined events that feature on the programme at the biennial African Championships in Athletics.
| Edition | Year | City | Country | Date | No. of athletes |
No. of nations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1999 | Algiers |  Algeria
|
26–27 May[7] | ||
| — | 2003 | Réduit |  Mauritius
|
Not held | ||
| 2nd | 2005 | Tunis |  Tunisia
|
21–22 May | ||
| 3rd[8] | 2009 | Réduit | Mauritius
|
18–19 April | ||
| 4th[5] | 2011 | Réduit | Mauritius
|
16–17 April | ||
| 5th[9] | 2012 | Bambous | Mauritius
|
13–14 April | ||
| 6th[10] | 2016 | Réduit | Mauritius
|
2–3 April | 12 (+5 invited) | 7 (+3 invited) |
Key: Meet record
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Rédouane Youcef (ALG) |
7375 pts |  Christo Blignaut (RSA) |
7347 pts | Amine Hafed (ALG) |
7042 pts |
| 2005 | François Potgieter (RSA) |
7168 pts | Anis Riahi (TUN) |
7140 pts | Jannie Botha (RSA) |
7004 pts |
| 2009 |  Ali Kamé (MAD) |
7363 pts NR |  Ahmed Mohamed Saad (EGY) |
7049 pts | Guillaume Thierry (MRI) |
6968 pts |
| 2011 | Ali Kamé (MAD) |
7685 pts NR | Guillaume Thierry (MRI) |
7444 pts | George Joubert (RSA) |
7431 pts |
| 2012 | Ali Kamé (MAD) |
7409 pts | Guillaume Thierry (MRI) |
7356 pts | Jonathan Caetane (MRI) † |
6147 pts |
| 2016 | Guillaume Thierry (MRI) |
7481 pts | Louis Fabrice Rajah (MRI) †† |
7022 pts | Gert Swanepoel (RSA) |
6570 pts |
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Stéphanie Domaingue (MRI) |
4857 pts |  Fatima Zahra Dkouk (MAR) |
4742 pts | Zahra Lachgar (MAR) |
4715 pts |
| 2005 | Sarah Bouaoudia (ALG) |
5492 pts |  Mona Jabir Ahmed (SUD) |
4919 pts | Aïda Chaabane (TUN) |
4747 pts |
| 2009 |  Margaret Simpson (GHA) |
5677 pts |  Selloane Tsoaeli (LES) |
5116 pts |  Florence Wasike (KEN) |
4906 pts |
| 2011 | Margaret Simpson (GHA) |
6134 pts | Janet Lawless (RSA) |
5673 pts |  Uhunoma Osazuwa (NGR) |
5663 pts |
| 2012 | Margaret Simpson (GHA) |
6184 pts |  Gabriella Kouassi (CIV) † |
5766 pts | Selloane Tsoaeli (LES) |
5194 pts |
| 2016 |  Marthe Koala (BUR) |
5772 pts | Bianca Erwee (RSA)†† |
5378 pts | Nienka Du Toit (RSA) |
5378 pts |
