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
	F
			F
Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay							F
					H	F
			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 nations)		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	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	Egypt	2:03.17

50m breaststroke details	Michael Houlie South Africa	27.41	Youssef El-Kamash Egypt	27.52 NR	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	Tunisia	2:15.73

50m butterfly details	Egypt	23.81	Ali Khalafalla Egypt	23.88	Ryan Coetzee South Africa	24.04
100m butterfly details	Ryan Coetzee South Africa	53.70	South Africa	53.88	Yusuf Tibazi Morocco	53.89
200m butterfly details	Jaouad Syoud Algeria	2:01.01 NR	Algeria	2:02.49	Egypt	2:03.79

200m individual medley details	Jaouad Syoud Algeria	2:02.49	Egypt	2:03.98	South Africa	2:04.15
400m individual medley details	Ramzi Chouchar Algeria	4:23.53 NR	Ayrton Sweeney South Africa	4:26.88	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) (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) (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) (1:50.43)	7:25.41	South Africa (RSA) Martin Binedell (1:51.87) Brent Szurdoki (1:50.79) (1:56.70) Alaric Basson (1:55.77)	7:35.13	Algeria (ALG) (1:53.54) (1:54.87) Ramzi Chouchar (1:55.28) (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) (55.17) Ali Khalafalla (48.92)	3:42.10	Algeria (ALG) Abdellah Ardjoune (56.30) (1:02.38) Jaouad Syoud (54.01) (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	South Africa	2:04.75	Majda Chebaraka Algeria	2:05.51
400m freestyle details	Hania Moro Egypt	4:21.36	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	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	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	South Africa	32.70	Tilka Paljk Zambia	32.92
100m breaststroke details	Kaylene Corbett South Africa	1:09.75	South Africa	1:10.67	Egypt	1:13.36
200m breaststroke details	Kaylene Corbett South Africa	2:29.23	South Africa	2:35.30	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	Egypt	2:18.21	Hamida Rania Nefsi Algeria	2:20.33	Angola	2:21.51

200m individual medley details	South Africa	2:19.44	Hamida Rania Nefsi Algeria	2:20.57	South Africa	2:21.70
400m individual medley details	Samantha Randle South Africa	4:55.31	Hamida Rania Nefsi Algeria	4:58.55	South Africa	5:01.35

4×100m freestyle relay	South Africa (RSA) Erin Gallagher (55.42) (58.83) (58.32) Emma Chelius (56.31)	3:48.88 GR	Egypt (EGY) (59.00) (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) (1:02.02) Majda Chebaraka (59.56)	3:58.28
4×200m freestyle relay	South Africa (RSA) (2:05.98) (2:08.07) (2:09.67) Erin Gallagher (2:06.85)	8:30.57	Egypt (EGY) (2:12.37) (2:10.35) (2:09.24) Hania Moro (2:08.33)	8:40.29	Algeria (ALG) Majda Chebaraka (2:08.34) Amel Melih (2:07.99) (2:16.42) Hamida Rania Nefsi (2:10.00)	8:42.75
4×100m medley relay details	South Africa (RSA) (1:04.40) Kaylene Corbett (1:10.88) Erin Gallagher (1:00.27) Emma Chelius (56.87)	4:12.42	Egypt (EGY) (1:05.96) (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) ^[a] Brad Tandy^[a] ^[a]	3:31.24 AF, GR	Egypt (EGY) Mohamed Samy (49.86) Ali Khalafalla (49.75) (58.27) Farida Osman (56.43) ^[a] ^[a] ^[a] ^[a]	3:34.31 NR	Algeria (ALG) (51.69) Jaouad Syoud (50.39) Amel Melih (58.02) Majda Chebaraka (59.72) ^[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) ^[a] Kaylene Corbett^[a] ^[a] ^[a]	3:50.76 GR	Egypt (EGY) Mohamed Samy (55.28) Youssef El-Kamash (1:00.83) Farida Osman (59.09) (58.73) ^[a] ^[a] Ali Khalafalla^[a]	3:53.93 NR	Morocco (MAR) Driss Lahrichi (56.55) (1:16.02) Yusuf Tibazi (55.59) Noura Mana (1:00.12) ^[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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