First
results from African Championships
Omulo
Okoth for the IAAF
6 August 2002
- Tunis - 20 year old Margaret Simpson set a Ghanaian high jump record on her
way to consolidating her leading position in the Heptathlon, as the 13th African
Championships started in Tunis today.
Simpson took the high jump bar up to 1.84 metres, way above her nearest challengers Tunisia's Hanene Dhouibi who leapt 1.75 and Karima Othman who recorded 1.69.
Simpson, earlier won the first event the 100 metres hurdles in 13.93 seconds ahead of Mauritius' Stephanie Domaingue (14.36) and Othman (14.96).
Later this evening, Simpson will be looking to consolidate her first day position with good performances at 200 metres and shot put, before embarking on the long jump, javelin and 800 metres on Wednesday.
"I would have jumped further than that but I wanted to conserve energy for coming events," Simpson said after the high jump.
Later events on this first day of competition also include the men's 20km walk final, women's triple jump final, men's 100 metres first round, women's discus final, men's 400 metres first round, men's shot put final, women's 800 metres first round, men's 1500 metres first round, women's 100 metres first round, men's 100 semi-final and the women's 5000 metres final.
Leading results:
100 metres hurdles
heptathlon
1 Margeret
Simpson (GHA) 13.93
2 Stephanie Domaingue (MRI) 14.36
3 Karima Othman (TUN)
14.96
High Jump heptathlon
1 Margaret Simpson (GHA) 1.84
2 Hanene
Dhouibi (TUN) 1.75
3 Karima Othman (TUN)
1.69
