2016 African Swimming Championships

The 12th African Swimming Championships were held October 16–23, 2016 in Bloemfontein, (South Africa).

Competition location was the Stadium Swimming Pool in Bloemfontein.

Participating countries[]

Countries which sent teams were:

Results[]

Men[]

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Free	Oussama Sahnoune   Algeria	22.39	Douglas Erasmus   South Africa	22.55	Mohamed Samy   Egypt	23.08
100m Free	Oussama Sahnoune   Algeria	49.60 CR	Calvyn Justus   South Africa	50.21	Mohamed Samy   Egypt	50.29
200m Free	Myles Brown   South Africa	1:50.93	Marwan El-Amrawy   Egypt	1:51.60	Calvyn Justus   South Africa	1:51.92
400m Free	Myles Brown   South Africa	3:54.80	Marwan El-Amrawy   Egypt	3:56.45	Algeria	4:02.15
800m Free	Marwan El-Amrawy   Egypt	8:13.07	Brent Szurdoki   South Africa	8:14.75	South Africa	8:18.57
1500m Free	Brent Szurdoki   South Africa	15:37.65	Marwan El-Amrawy   Egypt	15:48.33	South Africa	16:00.17
50m Back	Mohamed Samy   Egypt	26.62	Jacques van Wyk   South Africa	27.12	Driss Lahrichi   Morocco	27.59
100m Back	Jacques van Wyk   South Africa	56.50	Mohamed Samy   Egypt	57.31	South Africa	57.43
200m Back	Martin Binedell   South Africa	2:03.43	South Africa	2:04.33	Egypt	2:07.45
50m Breast	Cameron van der Burgh   South Africa	28.05 CR	Michael Houlie   South Africa	28.63	Egypt	28.92
100m Breast	Alaric Basson   South Africa	1:03.12	Michael Houlie   South Africa	1:03.46	Egypt	1:03.66
200m Breast	Ayrton Sweeney   South Africa	2:16.96	Alaric Basson   South Africa	2:20.82	Egypt	2:21.17
50m Fly	Douglas Erasmus   South Africa	24.33	Egypt	24.64	South Africa	24.83
100m Fly	Chad le Clos   South Africa	52.69	Mohamed Samy   Egypt	54.91	South Africa	55.05
200m Fly	Eben Vorster   South Africa	2:01.03	Egypt	2:03.27	Algeria	2:03.48
200m IM	South Africa	2:04.68	South Africa	2:05.37	Mohamed Samy   Egypt	2:08.22
400m IM	Ayrton Sweeney   South Africa	4:27.80	Egypt	4:30.22	South Africa	4:31.41
4x100m   Free Relay	South Africa  Douglas Erasmus,  Calvyn Justus,  Eben Vorster,  Myles Brown	3:22.76 CR	Egypt  ,   ,   ,   Mohamed Samy	3:25.52	Senegal  ,  ,  ,	3:59.50
4x200m   Free Relay	South Africa  ,  Brent Szurdoki,  Calvyn Justus,  Myles Brown	7:36.80	Egypt  ,  Mohamed Samy,  ,	7:38.89	Morocco  ,  Driss Lahrichi,  ,	8:10.37
4x100m   Medley Relay	South Africa  Jacques van Wyk,  Alaric Basson,  ,  Calvyn Justus	3:44.60	Egypt  Mohamed Samy,  ,  ,	3:51.91	Morocco  Driss Lahrichi,  ,  ,	3:58.31

Women[]

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Free	Amel Melih   Algeria	26.72	Egypt	27.02	Alexus Laird   Seychelles	27.03
100m Free	Amel Melih   Algeria	58.28	South AFrica	58.54	South AFrica	59.38
200m Free	South Africa	2:06.07	Rebecca Meder   South Africa	2:06.16	Souad Nefissa Cherouati   Algeria	2:07.51
400m Free	South Africa	4:24.74	Souad Nefissa Cherouati   Algeria	4:26.44	South Africa	4:29.68
800m Free	Souad Nefissa Cherouati   Algeria	9:10.29	Egypt	9:13.85	Michelle Weber   South Africa	9:15.89
1500m Free	South Africa	17:20.44	Souad Nefissa Cherouati   Algeria	17:44.35	Michelle Weber   South Africa	17:55.43
50m Back	Alexus Laird   Seychelles	30.68	Amel Melih   South Africa	31.08	Egypt	31.72
100m Back	Mariella Venter   South Africa	1:02.44 CR	Alexus Laird   Seychelles	1:05.53	Egypt	1:06.50
200m Back	Mariella Venter   South Africa	2:14.33	Nathania van Niekerk   South Africa	2:15.49	Alexus Laird   Seychelles	2:22.67
50m Breast	Kaylene Corbett   South Africa	32.58 CR	South Africa	33.08	Egypt	33.44
100m Breast	Kaylene Corbett   South Africa	1:11.81	South Africa	1:12.35	Egypt	1:12.49
200m Breast	Kaylene Corbett   South Africa	2:33.09	South Africa	2:36.57	Egypt	2:41.71
50m Fly	Nathania van Niekerk   South Africa	28.15	South Africa	29.23	Egypt	29.42
100m Fly	Nathania van Niekerk   South Africa	1:02.61	Egypt	1:03.11	Egypt	1:03.23
200m Fly	Algeria	2:15.75	Egypt	2:18.88	Egypt	2:20.00
200m IM	Rebecca Meder   South Africa	2:20.37	Rania Hamida Nefsi   Algeria >	2:22.16	Egypt	2:22.38
400m IM	Rebecca Meder   South Africa	4:58.51	Rania Hamida Nefsi   Algeria	5:02.58	Egypt	5:05.51
4x100m   Free Relay	Algeria   ,   Souad Nefissa Cherouati,   Rania Hamida Nefsi,   Amel Melih	4:00.92	Egypt   ,   ,   ,	4:06.62
4x200m   Free Relay	South Africa  Nathania van Niekerk,  ,  ,  Rebecca Meder	8:39.00	Algeria   ,  Rania Hamida Nefsi,   Amel Melih,  Souad Nefissa Cherouati	8:56.87	Egypt   ,   ,   ,	9:06.63
4x100m   Medley Relay	South Africa  Mariella Venter,  Kaylene Corbett,  Nathania van Niekerk,	4:18.92	Egypt  ,  ,  ,	4:21.71	Algeria  Amel Melih,  Rania Hamida Nefsi,  ,  Souad Nefissa Cherouati	4:18.61

Mixed[]

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4x100m   Free Relay	South Africa  Calvyn Justus,  ,  ,  Myles Brown	3:37.02 CR	Egypt  ,  ,  Mohamed Samy,	3:43.01	Algeria  Oussama Sahnoune,  ,  Amel Melih,  Souad Nefissa Cherouati	3:43.32
4x100m   Medley Relay	South Africa  Mariella Venter,  Alaric Basson,  ,	3:59.28 CR	Egypt  Mohamed Samy,  ,  ,	4:06.12	Algeria  Amel Melih,  Ramzi Chouchar,  ,  Oussama Sahnoune	4:18.61

Open water race[]

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 k (men)	Egypt	1:00:09.36	Egypt	1:00:20.34	South Africa	1:00:22.11
5 k (women)	Michelle Weber   South Africa	1:12:13.26	Souad Nefissa Cherouati   Algeria	1:12:13.62	South Africa	1:12:16.37

Medal standings[]

Final medal standings for the 2016 African Swimming Championships are:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa (RSA)	33	16	13	62
2	Algeria (ALG)	7	7	6	20
3	Egypt (EGY)	3	20	18	41
4	Seychelles (SEY)	1	1	2	4
5	Morocco (MAR)	0	0	3	3
6	Senegal (SEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		44	44	43	131

External links[]

• “2016 CANA African swimming championships” 2016 African Swimming Champs Results
• “XII CANA African swimming championships”