African Southern Region Athletics Championships
The African Southern Region Athletics Championships is a biennial international outdoor track and field competition between Southern African nations, organised by the Confederation of African Athletics. Typically held over two days in June or July, it was established in 1995 and replaced the African Zone VI Championships. It is one of four regional championships organised by the CAA, alongside the North, East and West African Athletics Championships.
The competition is one of three senior athletics championships organised for the region, alongside the African Southern Region Cross Country Championships and the African Southern Region Half Marathon Championships. There is also an age category counterpart to the competition, in the form of the African Southern Region U18/U20 Athletics Championships, which is held in even-numbered years, and the Cossasa Games – an athletics competition for Southern African students organised by the Confederation of School Sport Associations of Southern Africa.
The competition is used as preparation by athletes who have been selected for the World Championships in Athletics, which takes place one to two months after the regional championships. Each edition of the championships attracts around a dozen countries and around 600 athletes in total.
The 2019 event was due to be hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa, but Athletics South Africa cancelled the event due to financial issues stemming from the legal case against the IAAF's testosterone rules.
Events
The competition programme features 32 regular athletics events: seven track running events, two obstacle events, three jumps, and four throws for both the sexes.;Track running
;Obstacle events
;Jumping events
;Throwing events
3000 metres steeplechase, pole vault, and women's distance events are held irregularly due to a lack of entrants and organisational barriers.
Men's champions
100 metres
- 1995:
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- 1999:
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- 2003:
- 2005:
200 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
400 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
800 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
1500 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000: Unknown
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
5000 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
10,000 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000: Not held
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
3000 metres steeplechase
- 1995:
- 1997:
110 metres hurdles
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001: Not held
- 2003:
- 2005:
400 metres hurdles
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
High jump
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
Pole vault
- 1995:
- 1997: Not held
- 1999:
- 2000:
Long jump
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
Triple jump
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
Shot put
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
Discus throw
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
Hammer throw
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000: Not held
- 2001:
Javelin throw
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
4 × 100 metres relay
- 1995: Zimbabwe
- 1997: South Africa
- 1999: Botswana
- 2000: Mauritius
- 2001: Zimbabwe
- 2003: Zimbabwe
- 2005: Mauritius
4 × 400 metres relay
- 1995: Botswana
- 1997: South Africa
- 1999: Botswana
- 2000: Zimbabwe
- 2001: Botswana
- 2003: Zimbabwe
- 2005: Botswana
Women's champions
100 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
200 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
400 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
800 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
1500 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
5000 metres
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
10,000 metres
- 1995:
- 1997: Not held
- 1999:
- 2000: Not held
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
100 metres hurdles
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001: Not held
- 2003: Not held
- 2005:
400 metres hurdles
- 1995: Not held
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001: Not held
- 2003: Not held
- 2005:
High jump
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001: Not held
- 2003:
- 2005:
Pole vault
- 2000:
Long jump
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
Triple jump
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000: Not held
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
Shot put
- 1995: Not held
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
Discus throw
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
Javelin throw
- 1995:
- 1997:
- 1999:
- 2000:
- 2001:
- 2003:
- 2005:
4 × 100 metres relay
- 1995: Zimbabwe
- 1997: South Africa
- 1999: Zimbabwe
- 2000: Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe
- 2001: Zimbabwe
- 2003: Zambia
- 2005: Zimbabwe
4 × 400 metres relay
- 1995: Zimbabwe
- 1997: South Africa
- 1999: South Africa
- 2000: Zambia
- 2001: Zimbabwe
- 2003: Zambia
- 2005: Zambia