Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan (100m Hurdles) and South Africa’s Van Niekerk (400m), world record holders in their specialties, missed out on their subjects in Budapest by finishing respectively 6th and 7th at the end of the finals. This poor performance thus deprives Africa from the medals that everyone was expecting at these World championships.

Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, world record holder in the 1500m, won a third title as world champion of the event in Budapest. For his part, the Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali was crowned for the second time in the 3000 m steeplechase.

Burkina’s Hugues Fabrice Zango won his first world title after a very fluctuating men's triple jump final that ended with two Cubans sharing the podium with him, separated by a single centimeter.

The 30-year-old, who already won an Olympic bronze medal and a world silver and bronze medal, completed his collection with the best of all colors after taking an early lead, losing it and taking it again with his penultimate effort of 17.64m.

The Silver medal went to the 25-year-old Lazaro Martinez over 17.41m, while his compatriot of 24-year-old Cristian Napoles took bronze with a personal best of 17.40m.

Africa had a good start at the World Championships in Budapest by achieving the Triple in the 10,000m (Men and Women) and winning the Silver medal in the 100m (Men).

The 54th World athletics congress held on august 17 and 18, 2023 in Budapest( Hungary) enabled Africa to consolidate its presence within the management of the world body gouverning the first olympic sport. Thus the confederation of African Athletics(CAA) counts four members in the New council the particularity of which is to be comprised by 13 men and 13 women. This is the first time in the history of world sport organizations.

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe was elected for a third term at the 54th World Athletics Congress in Budapest on Thursday (17).

Ximena Restrepo was re-elected as a Vice President and will be joined by newly elected Vice Presidents Raul Chapado, Adille Sumariwalla and Jackson Tuwei.

A total of 192 voting members of Congress voted for Coe and three abstained. Under the World Athletics Constitution, this will be Coe’s final term as President.

The AADC residents of Dakar had a great harvest at the Games of La Francophonie which took place in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With 5 gold medals, 5 silver medals, 10 finalists, 8 personal bests and 1 Francophonie Games record, the results are very positive. This is to the credit of the CAA and particularly of the Director of AADC Amadou Dia Ba and his collaborators. With the support of President Hamad Kalkaba and Director General Lamine Faty, the Dakar center intends to maintain the course of excellence. 

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon (1500m and 5000m) and Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma (3000m steeplechase) made athletics’ history by setting new world records in these events.

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon broke the 5,000m world record on Friday June 9, 2023 in Paris, just a week after having already broken the 1,500m record in Florence. In 14'05''20, Kipyegon (29) improved the time of Ethiopia ’s Letesenbet Gidey (14'06''62 in 2020), ranking second in the race on Friday evening (14'07''94).

The combined U18 / U20 African Championships scheduled from April 29 to May 03, 2023 are confirmed on this date but relocated to Ndola, another city in Zambia.

Indeed, the repair works on the track at the Lusaka stadium has been delayed due to technical constraints and will not allow the availability of the stadium before the Competitions.

Thus, on the proposal of the Zambian Government, the CAA accepted this change of venue but required some guarantees for the upgrading of the Ndola Stadium.

 However, the 30th CAA Congress, April 26-27, 2023, remains in Lusaka.