Swimming at the 2019 African Games

Swimming at the 2019 African Games was held from 21 to 24 August 2019 in Casablanca, Morocco.[1]

Swimming at the 2019 African Games
Venue	Mohammed V Sports Complex – Olympic Pool
Location	Casablanca, Morocco
Dates	21–24 August
Nations	37

The event served as a qualifier for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Schedule

H

Heats

F

Final

Event↓/Date →	21st Wed		22nd Thu		23rd Fri		24th Sat
Men's 50 m freestyle							H	F
Men's 100 m freestyle	H	F
Men's 200 m freestyle			H	F
Men's 400 m freestyle					F
Men's 800 m freestyle	F
Men's 1500 m freestyle							F
Men's 50 m backstroke					H	F
Men's 100 m backstroke							H	F
Men's 200 m backstroke	H	F
Men's 50 m breaststroke	H	F
Men's 100 m breaststroke			H	F
Men's 200 m breaststroke					H	F
Men's 50 m butterfly			H	F
Men's 100 m butterfly					H	F
Men's 200 m butterfly	F
Men's 200 m individual medley							H	F
Men's 400 m individual medley			F
Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	F
Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay					F
Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay							F
Women's 50 m freestyle							H	F
Women's 100 m freestyle	H	F
Women's 200 m freestyle			H	F
Women's 400 m freestyle					F
Women's 800 m freestyle							F
Women's 1500 m freestyle	F
Women's 50 m backstroke					H	F
Women's 100 m backstroke							H	F
Women's 200 m backstroke	F
Women's 50 m breaststroke	H	F
Women's 100 m breaststroke			H	F
Women's 200 m breaststroke					F
Women's 50 m butterfly			H	F
Women's 100 m butterfly					H	F
Women's 200 m butterfly	H	F
Women's 200 m individual medley							H	F
Women's 400 m individual medley			F
Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	F
Women's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay			F
Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay							F
Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay					H	F
Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay			H	F

Participating nations

•  Algeria
•  Angola
•  Benin
•  Botswana[2]
•  Burkina Faso
•  Burundi
•  Central African Republic
•  Republic of the Congo
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo
•  Djibouti
•  Egypt
•  Equatorial Guinea
•  Eritrea
•  Ethiopia
•  Gabon
•  The Gambia
•  Ghana[3]
•  Guinea
•  Kenya[4]
•  Libya
•  Malawi
•  Mali
•  Mauritius
•  Morocco
•  Mozambique
•  Namibia[5]
•  Niger
•  Nigeria[6]
•  Senegal
•  Seychelles
•  Sierra Leone
•  South Africa[7]
•  Togo
•  Tunisia
•  Uganda
•  Zambia
•  Zimbabwe

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Morocco)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa (RSA)	20	13	12	45
2	Egypt (EGY)	14	17	10	41
3	Algeria (ALG)	5	7	8	20
4	Seychelles (SEY)	2	1	1	4
5	Tunisia (TUN)	1	3	2	6
6	Botswana (BOT)	0	1	1	2
7	Morocco (MAR)*	0	0	4	4
8	Angola (ANG)	0	0	1	1
	Kenya (KEN)	0	0	1	1
	Zambia (ZAM)	0	0	1	1
	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		42	42	42	126

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle	Ali Khalafalla  Egypt	22.17 GR	Oussama Sahnoune  Algeria	22.19	Brad Tandy  South Africa	22.21
100m freestyle	Oussama Sahnoune  Algeria	48.97 GR	Ali Khalafalla  Egypt	49.81	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	49.85
200m freestyle	Marwan Elkamash  Egypt	1:49.10	Mohamed Agili  Tunisia	1:49.22	Yassin Elshamaa  Egypt	1:49.40
400m freestyle	Mohamed Agili  Tunisia	3:48.94	Marwan Elkamash  Egypt	3:50.95	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	3:51.81
800m freestyle	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	7:57.21	Mohamed Agili  Tunisia	7:57.87	Marwan Elkamash  Egypt	8:06.90
1500m freestyle	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	15:19.49	Mohamed Agili  Tunisia	15:26.15	Marwan El-Amrawy  Egypt	15:32.43
50m backstroke	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	25.26 GR	Abdellah Ardjoune  Algeria	25.61 NR	Driss Lahrichi  Morocco	26.12
100m backstroke	Abdellah Ardjoune  Algeria	55.02 GR, NR	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	55.57	Martin Binedell  South Africa	56.20
200m backstroke	Martin Binedell  South Africa	1:59.03 GR	Abdellah Ardjoune  Algeria	2:00.38 NR	Yassin Elshamaa  Egypt	2:03.17
50m breaststroke	Michael Houlie  South Africa	27.41	Youssef El-Kamash  Egypt	27.52 NR	Wassim Elloumi  Tunisia	28.27
100m breaststroke	Alaric Basson  South Africa	1:00.96	Youssef El-Kamash  Egypt	1:01.52	Michael Houlie  South Africa	1:01.55
200m breaststroke	Alaric Basson  South Africa	2:14.21 GR	Youssef El-Kamash  Egypt	2:14.83 NR	Adnan Beji  Tunisia	2:15.73
50m butterfly	Abdelrahman Elaraby  Egypt	23.81	Ali Khalafalla  Egypt	23.88	Ryan Coetzee  South Africa	24.04
100m butterfly	Ryan Coetzee  South Africa	53.70	Alard Basson  South Africa	53.88	Yusuf Tibazi  Morocco	53.89
200m butterfly	Jaouad Syoud  Algeria	2:01.01 NR	Lounis Khendriche  Algeria	2:02.49	Ahmed Salem  Egypt	2:03.79
200m individual medley	Jaouad Syoud  Algeria	2:02.49	Yassin Elshamaa  Egypt	2:03.98	Neil Fair  South Africa	2:04.15
400m individual medley	Ramzi Chouchar  Algeria	4:23.53 NR	Ayrton Sweeney  South Africa	4:26.88	Ahmed Salem  Egypt	4:28.35
4×100m freestyle relay	South Africa (RSA) Brad Tandy (51.05) Ryan Coetzee (50.61) Martin Binedell (50.12) Douglas Erasmus (49.85)	3:21.63	Egypt (EGY) Abdelrahman Elaraby (51.57) Marwan Elkamash (51.59) Ali Khalafalla (49.27) Mohamed Samy (49.40)	3:21.83	Morocco (MAR) Souhail Hamouchane (52.11) Driss Lahrichi (51.44) Merwane El Merini (52.04) Samy Boutouil (50.33)	3:25.92 NR
4×200m freestyle relay	Egypt (EGY) Marwan El-Amrawy (1:50.98) Ahmed Akram (1:50.98) Marwan Elkamash (1:53.02) Yassin Elshamaa (1:50.43)	7:25.41	South Africa (RSA) Martin Binedell (1:51.87) Brent Szurdoki (1:50.79) Alard Basson (1:56.70) Alaric Basson (1:55.77)	7:35.13	Algeria (ALG) Mohamed Anisse Djaballah (1:53.54) Lounis Khendriche (1:54.87) Ramzi Chouchar (1:55.28) Moncef Aymen Balamane (1:57.80)	7:41.49
4×100m medley relay	South Africa (RSA) Martin Binedell (56.46) Alaric Basson (1:00.70) Ryan Coetzee (53.18) Douglas Erasmus (49.90)	3:40.24 GR	Egypt (EGY) Mohamed Samy (56.84) Youssef El-Kamash (1:01.17) Khaled Morad (55.17) Ali Khalafalla (48.92)	3:42.10	Algeria (ALG) Abdellah Ardjoune (56.30) Moncef Aymen Balamane (1:02.38) Jaouad Syoud (54.01) Mehdi Nazim Benbara (50.78)	3:43.47 NR

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle	Erin Gallagher  South Africa	24.95 GR, NR	Farida Osman  Egypt	25.06	Emma Chelius  South Africa	25.25
100m freestyle	Erin Gallagher  South Africa	55.13 GR	Farida Osman  Egypt	55.62	Emma Chelius  South Africa	55.86
200m freestyle	Hania Moro  Egypt	2:04.31	Christin Mundell  South Africa	2:04.75	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	2:05.51
400m freestyle	Hania Moro  Egypt	4:21.36	Christin Mundell  South Africa	4:22.95	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	4:24.60
800m freestyle	Hania Moro  Egypt	8:54.01	Samantha Randle  South Africa	8:55.32	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	9:07.21
1500m freestyle	Hania Moro  Egypt	17:06.71	Samantha Randle  South Africa	17:11.07	Carla Antonopoulos  South Africa	17:22.15
50m backstroke	Erin Gallagher  South Africa	29.05	Felicity Passon  Seychelles	29.17 NR	Naomi Ruele  Botswana	29.22
100m backstroke	Felicity Passon  Seychelles	1:02.42	Naomi Ruele  Botswana	1:02.62	Kerryn Herbst  South Africa	1:03.76
200m backstroke	Felicity Passon  Seychelles	2:14.55 NR	Samantha Randle  South Africa	2:15.55	Robyn Lee  Zimbabwe	2:22.50
50m breaststroke	Kaylene Corbett  South Africa	32.20 GR	Christin Mundell  South Africa	32.70	Tilka Paljk  Zambia	32.92
100m breaststroke	Kaylene Corbett  South Africa	1:09.75	Christin Mundell  South Africa	1:10.67	Sarah Soliman  Egypt	1:13.36
200m breaststroke	Kaylene Corbett  South Africa	2:29.23	Christin Mundell  South Africa	2:35.30	Rawan Eldamaty  Egypt	2:39.22
50m butterfly	Farida Osman  Egypt	25.94 GR	Erin Gallagher  South Africa	26.24 NR	Emma Chelius  South Africa	27.40
100m butterfly	Farida Osman  Egypt	58.79 GR	Erin Gallagher  South Africa	59.34	Felicity Passon  Seychelles	1:00.61 NR
200m butterfly	Nour Elgendy  Egypt	2:18.21	Hamida Rania Nefsi  Algeria	2:20.33	Lia Lima  Angola	2:21.51
200m individual medley	Jessica Whelan  South Africa	2:19.44	Hamida Rania Nefsi  Algeria	2:20.57	Christin Mundell  South Africa	2:21.70
400m individual medley	Samantha Randle  South Africa	4:55.31	Hamida Rania Nefsi  Algeria	4:58.55	Jessica Whelan  South Africa	5:01.35
4×100m freestyle relay	South Africa (RSA) Erin Gallagher (55.42) Jessica Whelan (58.83) Kerryn Herbst (58.32) Emma Chelius (56.31)	3:48.88 GR	Egypt (EGY) Amina Elsebelgy (59.00) Yasmin Hassan (59.11) Hania Moro (58.97) Farida Osman (56.45)	3:53.53	Algeria (ALG) Amel Melih (57.07) NR Hamida Rania Nefsi (59.63) Sara El Tahawi (1:02.02) Majda Chebaraka (59.56)	3:58.28
4×200m freestyle relay	South Africa (RSA) Christin Mundell (2:05.98) Jessica Whelan (2:08.07) Carla Antonopoulos (2:09.67) Erin Gallagher (2:06.85)	8:30.57	Egypt (EGY) Nour Elgendy (2:12.37) Logaine Abdellatif (2:10.35) Farida Samra (2:09.24) Hania Moro (2:08.33)	8:40.29	Algeria (ALG) Majda Chebaraka (2:08.34) Amel Melih (2:07.99) Sara El Tahawi (2:16.42) Hamida Rania Nefsi (2:10.00)	8:42.75
4×100m medley relay	South Africa (RSA) Kerryn Herbst (1:04.40) Kaylene Corbett (1:10.88) Erin Gallagher (1:00.27) Emma Chelius (56.87)	4:12.42	Egypt (EGY) Rola Hussein (1:05.96) Sarah Soliman (1:13.53) Farida Osman (1:00.94) Hania Moro (59.64)	4:20.07	Kenya (KEN) Sylvia Brunlehner (1:06.94) Rebecca Kamau (1:13.87) Emily Muteti (1:02.80) Maria Brunlehner (58.11)	4:21.72

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×100m freestyle relay	South Africa (RSA) Douglas Erasmus (50.42) Ryan Coetzee (49.74) Emma Chelius (55.87) Erin Gallagher (55.21) Carla Antonopoulos^[a] Brad Tandy^[a] Kerryn Herbst^[a]	3:31.24 AF, GR	Egypt (EGY) Mohamed Samy (49.86) Ali Khalafalla (49.75) Amina Elsebelgy (58.27) Farida Osman (56.43) Abdelrahman Elaraby^[a] Amina Elsebelgy^[a] Ahmed Salem^[a] Farida Samra^[a]	3:34.31 NR	Algeria (ALG) Mehdi Nazim Benbara (51.69) Jaouad Syoud (50.39) Amel Melih (58.02) Majda Chebaraka (59.72) Moncef Aymen Balamane^[a] Ramzi Chouchar^[a] Hamida Rania Nefsi^[a]	3:39.82 NR
4×100m medley relay	South Africa (RSA) Martin Binedell (55.43) Michael Houlie (59.96) Erin Gallagher (58.98) Emma Chelius (56.39) Neil Fair^[a] Kaylene Corbett^[a] Alard Basson^[a] Kerryn Herbst^[a]	3:50.76 GR	Egypt (EGY) Mohamed Samy (55.28) Youssef El-Kamash (1:00.83) Farida Osman (59.09) Amina Elsebelgy (58.73) Rola Hussein^[a] Mohamed Eissawy^[a] Ali Khalafalla^[a]	3:53.93 NR	Morocco (MAR) Driss Lahrichi (56.55) Hiba Laknit (1:16.02) Yusuf Tibazi (55.59) Noura Mana (1:00.12) Adil Assouab^[a] Samy Boutouil^[a]	4:08.28 NR

^a Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

References

1. "Global program" (PDF). Royal Moroccan Swimming Federation. 20 August 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
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4. "Kenya sending large squad to 2019 Africa Games, eyeing improved performance". xinhuanews. 6 August 2019. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
5. "Africa Games sendoff poorly attended". Namibian. 12 August 2019. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
6. Ngobua, David (8 August 2019). "562 Nigerian contingent ready for 2019 All Africa Games". Daily Trust. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
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External links

• Swimming at the 2019 African Games
• Results book
• Results