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.