Algiers — Nigerian sprinters have dominated this year's running competitions, winning four gold medals, one silver medal and three bronze medals.

In the men's competition, Oluseyi Fasuba won the gold medal, running 100 meters in 10.18 seconds, followed by Ghana's Nkansah Eric (10.35s) and yet another Nigerian, Uchenna Emedoh (10.37s).

Likewise for the women, where Osayemi Damolah (Nigeria) won in 11.20s.

In the hurdles competition, Salim Nurudeen also of Nigeria won in 13.59s; and Nigerian teams won both the men and women's 4x100m semifinal races, and are now guaranteed to participate in the final.

In the men’s hammer throw, Egyptians lived up to their reputation by pocketing two gold medals.

In the high jump, Amata Doreen of Nigeria won the gold medal (1.89m), followed by two South Africans with bronze and silver medals.

The surprise of the day came from Ndiss kaba Badji of Senegal, who won the gold medal for Triple Jump, flying over a distance of 16.8 meters. He beat his country's record set 35 years ago by Mansour Dia at the 1972 Olympics in Munich (16.77 meters).

Shayma Trabelssi of Tunisia won the gold medal for walking 20 kilometers in 1h:49.13, followed by Mercy Njoki of Kenya and Ararsa Asnakech of Ethiopia.

There were no surprises in soccer. Cameroon's junior Indomitable Lions and Guinea's junior team National Syli both qualified for the final, defeating Zambia (2-1) and Tunisia (1-0) respectively.

The final four for the Women's basketball tournament is set: Angola, Mozambique, Nigeria and Senegal. In the quarterfinal games, Angola defeated Tunisia (74-47), Mozambique beat Kenya 82-62, Nigeria easily defeated DRC, and Senegal dominated Algeria (75-49).

Thus in the semi-finals, Angola will play Senegal, and Nigeria will tackle Mozambique.

But host Algeria is still dominating the final medal count, with a total of 129 - including 48 gold -medals, followed by South Africa.