2018 African Swimming Championships

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]

13th African Swimming Championships
Host city	Algiers, Algeria
Date(s)	10–16 September
Events	44
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Participating countries

•   Algeria
•   Angola
•   Benin
•   Botswana
•   Burkina Faso
•   Burundi
•   Cape Verde
•   Djibouti
•   Egypt
•   Gambia
•   Ghana
•   Guinea
•   Kenya
•   Libya
•   Madagascar
•   Malawi
•   Mauritius
•   Morocco
•   Mozambique
•   Niger
•   Rwanda
•   Senegal
•   Seychelles
•   South Africa
•   Sudan
•   Eswatini
•   Togo
•   Tunisia
•   Uganda
•   Zambia
•   Zimbabwe

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 entries)		44	45	43	132

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	Mohamed Aziz Ghaffari   Tunisia	1:50.07
400m freestyle details	Marwan Elkamash   Egypt	3:51.12 CR	Marwan El-Amrawy   Egypt	3:55.52	Mohamed Aziz Ghaffari   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	Mohamed Ryad Bouhamidi   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	Wassim Elloumi   Tunisia	28.25 =NR	Alaric Basson   South Africa	28.42
100m breaststroke details	Wassim Elloumi   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	Wassim Elloumi   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	Ruan Breytenbach   South Africa	2:01.20	Said Saber   Morocco	2:02.49
200m individual medley details	Mohamed Samy   Egypt	2:01.21 CR	Ayrton Sweeney   South Africa	2:02.16	Moncef Aymen Balamane   Algeria	2:05.23
400m individual medley details	Ayrton Sweeney   South Africa	4:21.69	Ruan Breytenbach   South Africa	4:25.80	Ahmed Hamdi   Egypt	4:26.73
4 × 100 m 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) Matthew Bowers (52.21) Alaric Basson (51.71) Ayrton Sweeney (51.28)	3:26.80	Tunisia Mohamed Mehdi Agili (51.72) Ahmed Hafnaoui (52.55) Mohamed Ali Chaouchi (53.03) Mohamed Aziz Ghaffari (50.62)	3:27.92
4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	Egypt Marwan El-Amrawy (1:51.24) Marwan Elkamash (1:49.81) Ahmed Hamdy (1:53.20) Mohamed Samy (1:53.85)	7:28.10 CR	Tunisia Mohamed Mehdi Agili (1:51.44) Mohamed Ali Chaouchi (1:55.74) Ahmed Hafnaoui (1:53.21) Mohamed Aziz Ghaffari (1:51.16)	7:31.55	South Africa Ruan Breytenbach (1:56.78) Alaric Basson (1:55.03) Ayrton Sweeney (1:51.75) Alard Basson (1:54.63)	7:38.19
4 × 100 m medley relay details	Egypt Mohamed Samy Youssef Elkamash Marwan Elkamash Ali Khalafalla	3:42.87 CR	South Africa Jacques van Wyk Alaric Basson Alard Basson Ayrton Sweeney	3:43.21	Algeria Abdallah Ardjoune Moncef Aymen Balamane Lounis Khendriche Mehdi Nazim Benbara	3:48.26
5 km open water details	Marwan El-Amrawy   Egypt	57:55.21	Said Saber   Morocco	58:21.42	Adel El-Behary   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	Nesrine Medjahed   Algeria	58.09
200m freestyle	Hania Moro   Egypt	2:04.46	Jessica Whelan   South Africa	2:06.14	Janie Coetzer   South Africa	2:07.08
400m freestyle	Hania Moro   Egypt	4:21.76	Jessica Whelan   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	Janie Coetzer   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	Hannah Kiely   South Africa	1:04.53	Hiba Fahsi   Morocco	1:05.98
200m backstroke	Samantha Randle   South Africa	2:17.15	Hannah Kiely   South Africa	2:22.01	Hiba Fahsi   Morocco	2:22.18
50m breaststroke	Lara van Niekerk   South Africa	31.99 CR	Tilka Paljk   Zambia	32.15	Jade Simons   South Africa	33.10
100m breaststroke	Lara van Niekerk   South Africa	1:11.13	Rowaida Hesham   Egypt	1:12.01	Jade Simons   South Africa	1:12.19
200m breaststroke	Lara van Niekerk   South Africa	2:35.25	Rowaida Hesham   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	Nesrine Medjahed   Algeria	1:04.75
200m butterfly	Rowida Hesham   Egypt	2:20.25	Hamida Rania Nefsi   Algeria	2:21.59	Jessica Whelan   South Africa	2:22.79
200m individual medley	Jessica Whelan   South Africa	2:19.91	Hamida Rania Nefsi   Algeria	2:21.72	Farah Ben Khelil   Tunisia	2:21.76
400m individual medley	Hamida Rania Nefsi   Algeria	4:56.96	Samantha Randle   South Africa	4:59.75	Jessica Whelan   South Africa	5:00.66
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	South Africa Lesley Blignaut (59.86) Hannah Kiely (58.67) Janie Coetzer (59.34) Erin Gallagher (54.76)	3:52.63	Egypt Hania Moro (59.06) Rowida Hesham (1:02.36) Samiha Mohsen (58.65) Farida Osman (55.20)	3:55.27	Algeria Nesrine Medjahed (57.98) Hamida Rania Nefsi (1:00.26) Souad Nafissa Cherouati (1:00.33) Amel Melih (57.08)	3:55.65 NR
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	South Africa Jessica Whelan (2:08.08) Janie Coetzer (2:06.89) Tori Oliver (2:12.89) Erin Gallagher (2:02.03)	8:29.89	Algeria Amel Melih Majda Chebaraka Hamida Rania Nefsi Nesrine Medjahed	8:33.30 NR	Tunisia Menna Kchouk (2:11.78) Alia Gara (2:20.38) Habiba Belghith (2:14.34) Farah Benkhelil (2:18.90)	9:05.40
4 × 100 m medley relay	South Africa Hannah Kiely (1:04.94) Lara van Niekerk (1:10.40) Erin Gallagher (58.55) Lesley Blignaut (58.94)	4:12.83	Egypt Samiha Mohsen (1:04.39) Rowida Hesham (1:13.18) Farida Osman (59.41) Hania Moro (58.98)	4:15.96	Algeria Imene Kawthar Zitouni (1:09.06) Hamida Rania Nefsi (1:15.80) Nesrine Medjahed (1:04.53) Amel Melih (57.07)	4:26.46
5 km open water	Souad Nafissa Cherouati   Algeria	1:02:49.02	Sandy Atef   Egypt	1:02:50.48	Dana Akl   Egypt	1:03:43.81

Mixed

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 100 m 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) Hannah Kiely (59.36) Matthew Bowers^[a] Lesley Blignaut^[a] Janie Coetzer^[a] Ayrton Sweeney^[a]	3:37.04	Algeria Aimen Benabid (52.77) Mehdi Nazim Benbara (51.23) Nesrine Medjahed (59.48) Amel Melih (56.91)	3:40.39 NR
4 × 100 m medley relay details	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) Moncef Aymen Balamane (1:03.00) Nesrine Medjahed (1:05.76) Amel Melih (56.96)	4:02.79 NR	Tunisia Farah Ben Khelil (1:06.88) Wassim Elloumi (1:01.00) Alia Gara (1:06.56) Mohamed Mehdi Agili (51.17) Adnane Beji^[a] Haythem Mbarki^[a]	4:05.61

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

References

1. . CANA. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.

External links

• Official website 2020-03-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Results 2018-09-15 at the Wayback Machine