Swimming at the 2019 African Games – Women's 50 metre freestyle

Women's 50 metre freestyle
at the 2019 African Games
Women's 50 metre freestyle ; at the 2019 African Games
Venue	Mohammed V Sports Complex – Olympic Pool
Dates	21 August (heats and final);
Competitors	38 from 27 nations
Winning time	24.95
Medalists
	← 2015 →

The Women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 24 August 2019.^[1]

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows:

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	23.67	Budapest	29 July 2017
African record	Farida Osman	Egypt	24.62	Budapest	29 July 2017
Games record	Farida Osman	Egypt	25.12	Brazzaville	10 September 2015

The following new records were set during this competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
24 August	Final	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	24.95	GR

The heats started on 24 August at 10:30.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	4	Farida Osman	Egypt	25.38	Q
2	4	4	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	25.55	Q
3	3	4	Emma Chelius	South Africa	25.77	Q
4	5	5	Amel Melih	Algeria	26.03	Q
5	4	5	Felicity Passon	Seychelles	26.05	Q, WD
6	4	3	Emily Muteti	Kenya	26.68	Q
7	3	5	Naomi Ruele	Botswana	26.74	Q, WD
8	3	3	Maria Brunlehner	Kenya	26.98	Q, WD
9	5	3		Egypt	27.14	Q
10	3	8	Tilka Paljk	Zambia	27.36	Q
11	4	6	Jeanne Boutbien	Senegal	27.51	Q
12	5	6	Noura Mana	Morocco	27.60
13	5	7	Catarina Sousa	Angola	27.68	NR
14	5	1		Nigeria	28.09
15	4	7		Namibia	28.15
16	4	2	Sophia Diagne	Senegal	28.29
17	5	2		Zimbabwe	28.45
18	3	7		Nigeria	28.59
19	3	2		Morocco	28.63
20	4	1	Robyn Lee	Zimbabwe	29.03
21	3	6		Uganda	29.23
22	3	1		Seychelles	29.36
23	5	8	Angelika Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso	29.52
24	4	8		Botswana	29.63
25	1	7	Nafissath Radji	Benin	29.86
26	2	4		Zambia	30.03
27	2	7	Rahel Gebresilassie	Ethiopia	31.96
28	2	3	Aya Mpali	Gabon	32.63
29	2	5	Chloe Sauvourel	Central African Republic	32.65
30	2	6	Roukaya Mahamane	Niger	32.76
31	1	4		Ethiopia	32.94
32	2	8	Bellore Sangala	Republic of the Congo	33.17
33	2	2	Odrina Kaze	Burundi	35.11
34	1	5		Djibouti	35.64
35	1	6	Mariama Touré	Guinea	37.67
36	1	3		Sierra Leone	37.80
37	2	1		Mali	38.80
				Equatorial Guinea	Disqualified

The final heat started on 24 August at 17:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Erin Gallagher	South Africa	24.95	GR
	4	Farida Osman	Egypt	25.06
	3	Emma Chelius	South Africa	25.25
4	6	Amel Melih	Algeria	25.86
5	2	Emily Muteti	Kenya	26.72
6	7		Egypt	26.90
7	1	Tilka Paljk	Zambia	27.39
8	8	Jeanne Boutbien	Senegal	27.53

Swimming at the 2019 African Games

Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men
4×100 m	mixed
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×100 m
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