The World Athletics Championships (August 19 to 27, 2023 in Budapest) ended with the coronation of the United States (12 Gold) ahead of Canada (4 Gold), Spain (4 Gold) and Jamaica (3 Gold). Kenya (3 Gold) and Ethiopia (2 Gold) are respectively 5th and 6th in the final ranking. Four other African countries; Uganda (2 Gold), Morocco (1 Gold), Burkina Faso (1 Gold) and Botswana (1 Silver) are on the medal table. Thus, the harvest of Africa is 9 Gold, 8 Silver, 9 Bronze.

Day eight at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 ended in joyful fashion for the United States as Noah Lyles and then Sha’Carri Richardson anchored victories in the respective men’s and women’s 4x100m finals after earlier trademark wins for Faith Kipyegon in the 5000m and Mondo Duplantis in the pole vault.

Africa distinguished itself in the women's marathon by taking the three places on the podium. Amane Beriso Shankule led an Ethiopian double with a time of 2:24:23 at the finish line at ‘place des Héros’ ahead of her compatriot and defending champion Gotytom Gebreslase (2:24:34).

An Ethiopian medal race was for a long time watched, until the weather conditions badly impacted on last year's London Marathon winner Yalemzerf Yehualaw.

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.