Swimming at the 2019 African Games

Swimming
at the 2019 African Games
Swimming ; at the 2019 African Games
Venue	Mohammed V Sports Complex – Olympic Pool
Location	Casablanca, Morocco
Dates	21–24 August
Nations	37
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Swimming at the 2019 African Games was held from 21 to 24 August 2019 in Casablanca, Morocco.^[1]

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

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 entries)		42	42	42	126

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle details	Ali Khalafalla Egypt	22.17 GR	Oussama Sahnoune Algeria	22.19	Brad Tandy South Africa	22.21
100m freestyle details	Oussama Sahnoune Algeria	48.97 GR	Ali Khalafalla Egypt	49.81	Mohamed Samy Egypt	49.85
200m freestyle details	Marwan Elkamash Egypt	1:49.10	Mohamed Agili Tunisia	1:49.22	Yassin Elshamaa Egypt	1:49.40
400m freestyle details	Mohamed Agili Tunisia	3:48.94	Marwan Elkamash Egypt	3:50.95	Ahmed Akram Egypt	3:51.81
800m freestyle details	Ahmed Akram Egypt	7:57.21	Mohamed Agili Tunisia	7:57.87	Marwan Elkamash Egypt	8:06.90
1500m freestyle details	Ahmed Akram Egypt	15:19.49	Mohamed Agili Tunisia	15:26.15	Marwan El-Amrawy Egypt	15:32.43

50m backstroke details	Mohamed Samy Egypt	25.26 GR	Abdellah Ardjoune Algeria	25.61 NR	Driss Lahrichi Morocco	26.12
100m backstroke details	Abdellah Ardjoune Algeria	55.02 GR, NR	Mohamed Samy Egypt	55.57	Martin Binedell South Africa	56.20
200m backstroke details	Martin Binedell South Africa	1:59.03 GR	Abdellah Ardjoune Algeria	2:00.38 NR	Yassin Elshamaa Egypt	2:03.17

50m breaststroke details	Michael Houlie South Africa	27.41	Youssef El-Kamash Egypt	27.52 NR	Wassim Elloumi Tunisia	28.27
100m breaststroke details	Alaric Basson South Africa	1:00.96	Youssef El-Kamash Egypt	1:01.52	Michael Houlie South Africa	1:01.55
200m breaststroke details	Alaric Basson South Africa	2:14.21 GR	Youssef El-Kamash Egypt	2:14.83 NR	Adnan Beji Tunisia	2:15.73

50m butterfly details	Abdelrahman Elaraby Egypt	23.81	Ali Khalafalla Egypt	23.88	Ryan Coetzee South Africa	24.04
100m butterfly details	Ryan Coetzee South Africa	53.70	Alard Basson South Africa	53.88	Yusuf Tibazi Morocco	53.89
200m butterfly details	Jaouad Syoud Algeria	2:01.01 NR	Lounis Khendriche Algeria	2:02.49	Ahmed Salem Egypt	2:03.79

200m individual medley details	Jaouad Syoud Algeria	2:02.49	Yassin Elshamaa Egypt	2:03.98	Neil Fair South Africa	2:04.15
400m individual medley details	Ramzi Chouchar Algeria	4:23.53 NR	Ayrton Sweeney South Africa	4:26.88	Ahmed Salem Egypt	4:28.35

4×100m freestyle relay details	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 details	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 details	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 details	Erin Gallagher South Africa	24.95 GR, NR	Farida Osman Egypt	25.06	Emma Chelius South Africa	25.25
100m freestyle details	Erin Gallagher South Africa	55.13 GR	Farida Osman Egypt	55.62	Emma Chelius South Africa	55.86
200m freestyle details	Hania Moro Egypt	2:04.31	Christin Mundell South Africa	2:04.75	Majda Chebaraka Algeria	2:05.51
400m freestyle details	Hania Moro Egypt	4:21.36	Christin Mundell South Africa	4:22.95	Majda Chebaraka Algeria	4:24.60
800m freestyle details	Hania Moro Egypt	8:54.01	Samantha Randle South Africa	8:55.32	Majda Chebaraka Algeria	9:07.21
1500m freestyle details	Hania Moro Egypt	17:06.71	Samantha Randle South Africa	17:11.07	Carla Antonopoulos South Africa	17:22.15

50m backstroke details	Erin Gallagher South Africa	29.05	Felicity Passon Seychelles	29.17 NR	Naomi Ruele Botswana	29.22
100m backstroke details	Felicity Passon Seychelles	1:02.42	Naomi Ruele Botswana	1:02.62	Kerryn Herbst South Africa	1:03.76
200m backstroke details	Felicity Passon Seychelles	2:14.55 NR	Samantha Randle South Africa	2:15.55	Robyn Lee Zimbabwe	2:22.50

50m breaststroke details	Kaylene Corbett South Africa	32.20 GR	Christin Mundell South Africa	32.70	Tilka Paljk Zambia	32.92
100m breaststroke details	Kaylene Corbett South Africa	1:09.75	Christin Mundell South Africa	1:10.67	Sarah Soliman Egypt	1:13.36
200m breaststroke details	Kaylene Corbett South Africa	2:29.23	Christin Mundell South Africa	2:35.30	Rawan Eldamaty Egypt	2:39.22

50m butterfly details	Farida Osman Egypt	25.94 GR	Erin Gallagher South Africa	26.24 NR	Emma Chelius South Africa	27.40
100m butterfly details	Farida Osman Egypt	58.79 GR	Erin Gallagher South Africa	59.34	Felicity Passon Seychelles	1:00.61 NR
200m butterfly details	Nour Elgendy Egypt	2:18.21	Hamida Rania Nefsi Algeria	2:20.33	Lia Lima Angola	2:21.51

200m individual medley details	Jessica Whelan South Africa	2:19.44	Hamida Rania Nefsi Algeria	2:20.57	Christin Mundell South Africa	2:21.70
400m individual medley details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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

^ "Global program" (PDF). Royal Moroccan Swimming Federation. 20 August 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
^ "Montsho going strong despite exit reports". MmegiOnline. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
^ "2019 Africa Games: Confirmed federations to compete for Ghana in Morocco". Sports News - Ghana Web. 1 August 2019. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
^ "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.
^ "Africa Games sendoff poorly attended". Namibian. 12 August 2019. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
^ 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.
^ "Team SA Announced for 2019 African Games". South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee. 15 July 2019. Archived from the original on 27 July 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.

External links

[1] "Global program" (PDF). Royal Moroccan Swimming Federation. 20 August 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2019.

[montsho_going_strong-2] "Montsho going strong despite exit reports". MmegiOnline. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.

[ghana_presents_ghanaweb-3] "2019 Africa Games: Confirmed federations to compete for Ghana in Morocco". Sports News - Ghana Web. 1 August 2019. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.

[kenya_290_athletes-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.

[namibia_sendoff_poorly_attended-5] "Africa Games sendoff poorly attended". Namibian. 12 August 2019. Archived from the original on 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.

[nigerian_continent_ready-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.

[team_sa_announced-7] "Team SA Announced for 2019 African Games". South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee. 15 July 2019. Archived from the original on 27 July 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.

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