2018 African Swimming Championships

13th African Swimming Championships
Host city	Algiers, Algeria
Date(s)	10–16 September
Events	44
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2018 African Swimming Championships
Swimming
Freestyle
50 m	men
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men
1500 m	men
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men
200 m	men
Individual medley
200 m	men
400 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men
4×100 m	mixed
4×200 m
Medley relay
4×100 m
4×100 m
Open water swimming
5 km
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The 13th African Swimming Championships were held from 10 to 16 September 2018 at the Mohamed Boudiaf Olympic Complex in Algiers, Algeria and at Boukourdane Lake.^[1]

Participating countries[]

Results[]

Men[]

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle details	Ali Khalafalla  Egypt	22.51	Bradley Vincent  Mauritius	22.86	Abdelrahman Sameh  Egypt	23.03
100m freestyle details	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	49.39 CR	Ali Khalafalla  Egypt	49.89	Bradley Vincent  Mauritius	50.24
200m freestyle details	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	1:49.62 CR	Marwan Elkamash  Egypt	1:49.88	Tunisia	1:50.07
400m freestyle details	Marwan Elkamash  Egypt	3:51.12 CR	Marwan El-Amrawy  Egypt	3:55.52	Tunisia	3:56.68
800m freestyle details	Marwan Elkamash  Egypt	8:02.37 CR	Marwan El-Amrawy  Egypt	8:07.42	Ahmed Hafnaoui  Tunisia	8:08.74
1500m freestyle details	Marwan Elkamash  Egypt	15:26.40 CR	Marwan El-Amrawy  Egypt	15:32.23	Ahmed Hafnaoui  Tunisia	15:45.46
50m backstroke details	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	25.49 CR	Jacques van Wyk  South Africa	25.90	Abdellah Ardjoune  Algeria	26.54
100m backstroke details	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	55.49 CR	Jacques van Wyk  South Africa	55.54	Ali Khalafalla  Egypt	56.70
200m backstroke details	Algeria	2:05.13	Jacques van Wyk  South Africa	2:05.76	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	2:06.88
50m breaststroke details	Youssef Elkamash  Egypt	28.04	Tunisia	28.25 =NR	Alaric Basson  South Africa	28.42
100m breaststroke details	Tunisia	1:01.26 CR, NR	Youssef Elkamash  Egypt Alaric Basson  South Africa	1:01.54	Not awarded
200m breaststroke details	Ayrton Sweeney  South Africa	2:14.04 CR	Tunisia	2:15.76	Alaric Basson  South Africa	2:16.16
50m butterfly details	Abdelrahman Sameh  Egypt	23.71	Ali Khalafalla  Egypt	24.10	Yusuf Tibazi  Morocco	24.11 NR
100m butterfly details	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	53.72	Yusuf Tibazi  Morocco	54.20	Ralph Goveia  Zambia	54.53
200m butterfly details	Marwan Elkamash  Egypt	2:00.96	South Africa	2:01.20	Morocco	2:02.49
200m individual medley details	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	2:01.21 CR	Ayrton Sweeney  South Africa	2:02.16	Algeria	2:05.23
400m individual medley details	Ayrton Sweeney  South Africa	4:21.69	South Africa	4:25.80	Egypt	4:26.73
4x100m freestyle relay details	Egypt Abdelrahman Sameh (51.42) Marwan Elkamash (50.91) Mohamed Samy (49.88) Ali Khalafalla (49.40)	3:21.61 CR	South Africa Jacques van Wyk (51.60) (52.21) Alaric Basson (51.71) Ayrton Sweeney (51.28)	3:26.80	Tunisia (51.72) Ahmed Hafnaoui (52.55) (53.03) (50.62)	3:27.92
4x200m freestyle relay	Egypt Marwan El-Amrawy (1:51.24) Marwan Elkamash (1:49.81) (1:53.20) Mohamed Samy (1:53.85)	7:28.10 CR	Tunisia (1:51.44) (1:55.74) Ahmed Hafnaoui (1:53.21) (1:51.16)	7:31.55	South Africa (1:56.78) Alaric Basson (1:55.03) Ayrton Sweeney (1:51.75) (1:54.63)	7:38.19
4x100m medley relay	Egypt Mohamed Samy Youssef Elkamash Marwan Elkamash Ali Khalafalla	3:42.87 CR	South Africa Jacques van Wyk Alaric Basson Ayrton Sweeney	3:43.21	Algeria	3:48.26
5km open water	Marwan El-Amrawy  Egypt	57:55.21	Morocco	58:21.42	Egypt	59:23.50

Women[]

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m freestyle	Farida Osman  Egypt	25.11 CR	Erin Gallagher  South Africa	25.17	Amel Melih  Algeria	26.15
100m freestyle	Erin Gallagher  South Africa	54.79 CR	Farida Osman  Egypt	56.80	Algeria	58.09
200m freestyle	Hania Moro  Egypt	2:04.46	South Africa	2:06.14	South Africa	2:07.08
400m freestyle	Hania Moro  Egypt	4:21.76	South Africa	4:23.76	Souad Nafissa Cherouati  Algeria	4:24.42
800m freestyle	Hania Moro  Egypt	8:56.95	Souad Nafissa Cherouati  Algeria	9:01.68	South Africa	9:12.79
1500m freestyle	Hania Moro  Egypt	17:15.45	Souad Nafissa Cherouati  Algeria	17:21.41	Samantha Randle  South Africa	17:25.08
50m backstroke	Erin Gallagher  South Africa	29.04 CR	Samiha Mohsen  Egypt	29.51 NR	Amel Melih  Algeria	29.67
100m backstroke	Samiha Mohsen  Egypt	1:04.19	South Africa	1:04.53	Hiba Fahsi  Morocco	1:05.98
200m backstroke	Samantha Randle  South Africa	2:17.15	South Africa	2:22.01	Hiba Fahsi  Morocco	2:22.18
50m breaststroke	South Africa	31.99 CR	Tilka Paljk  Zambia	32.15	South Africa	33.10
100m breaststroke	South Africa	1:11.13	Egypt	1:12.01	South Africa	1:12.19
200m breaststroke	South Africa	2:35.25	Egypt	2:38.99	Hamida Rania Nefsi  Algeria	2:40.10
50m butterfly	Farida Osman  Egypt	26.16 CR	Erin Gallagher  South Africa	26.64	Amel Melih  Algeria	27.52
100m butterfly	Farida Osman  Egypt	59.03 CR	Erin Gallagher  South Africa	1:00.45	Algeria	1:04.75
200m butterfly	Egypt	2:20.25	Hamida Rania Nefsi  Algeria	2:21.59	South Africa	2:22.79
200m individual medley	South Africa	2:19.91	Hamida Rania Nefsi  Algeria	2:21.72	Tunisia	2:21.76
400m individual medley	Hamida Rania Nefsi  Algeria	4:56.96	Samantha Randle  South Africa	4:59.75	South Africa	5:00.66
4x100m freestyle relay	South Africa (59.86) (58.67) (59.34) Erin Gallagher (54.76)	3:52.63	Egypt Hania Moro (59.06) (1:02.36) Samiha Mohsen (58.65) Farida Osman (55.20)	3:55.27	Algeria (57.98) Hamida Rania Nefsi (1:00.26) Souad Nafissa Cherouati (1:00.33) Amel Melih (57.08)	3:55.65 NR
4x200m freestyle relay	South Africa (2:08.08) (2:06.89) (2:12.89) Erin Gallagher (2:02.03)	8:29.89	Algeria Amel Melih Majda Chebaraka Hamida Rania Nefsi	8:33.30 NR	Tunisia (2:11.78) (2:20.38) (2:14.34) (2:18.90)	9:05.40
4x100m medley relay	South Africa (1:04.94) (1:10.40) Erin Gallagher (58.55) (58.94)	4:12.83	Egypt Samiha Mohsen (1:04.39) (1:13.18) Farida Osman (59.41) Hania Moro (58.98)	4:15.96	Algeria (1:09.06) Hamida Rania Nefsi (1:15.80) (1:04.53) Amel Melih (57.07)	4:26.46
5km open water	Souad Nafissa Cherouati  Algeria	1:02:49.02	Egypt	1:02:50.48	Egypt	1:03:43.81

Mixed[]

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4x100m freestyle relay details	Egypt Ali Khalafalla (50.84) Samiha Mohsen (1:00.37) Farida Osman (56.58) Mohamed Samy (49.15)	3:36.94 CR, NR	South Africa Jacques van Wyk (51.08) Alaric Basson (51.58) Erin Gallagher (55.02) (59.36) [a] [a] [a] Ayrton Sweeney[a]	3:37.04	Algeria (52.77) (51.23) (59.48) Amel Melih (56.91)	3:40.39 NR
4x100m medley relay	Egypt Samiha Mohsen (1:04.65) Youssef El-Kamash (1:01.45) Farida Osman (1:00.31) Mohamed Samy (49.47)	3:55.88 CR, NR	Algeria Abdellah Ardjoune (57.07) (1:03.00) (1:05.76) Amel Melih (56.96)	4:02.79 NR	Tunisia (1:06.88) (1:01.00) (1:06.56) (51.17) [a] [a]	4:05.61

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

Medal standings[]

  Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt (EGY)	28	14	6	48
2	South Africa (RSA)	12	18	10	40
3	Algeria (ALG)*	3	6	13	22
4	Tunisia (TUN)	1	3	8	12
5	Morocco (MAR)	0	2	4	6
6	Mauritius (MRI)	0	1	1	2
	Zambia (ZAM)	0	1	1	2
Totals (7 nations)		44	45	43	132

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Results