Swimming at the 2015 African Games

The Swimming competitions at the 2015 African Games in Brazzaville was held between 6 and 11 September at the Kintele Aquatic Complex.

Swimming at the XI African Games
Venue	Kintele Aquatic Complex (pool)
Date	6–11 September 2015
Website	http://www.cojabrazzaville2015.com/en/calendrier-sport/?sport=16
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Events

Similar to the program's format in 2015, swimming features a total of 42 events (20 each for men and women), including two Mixed events. The following events were contested (all pool events are long course, and distances are in metres unless stated):

• Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1500;
• Backstroke: 50, 100 and 200;
• Breaststroke: 50, 100 and 200;
• Butterfly: 50, 100 and 200;
• Individual medley: 200 and 400;
• Relays: 4 × 100 free, 4 × 200 free; 4 × 100 medley
• Mixed events: 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and 4 × 100 m medley relay

Schedule

Legend

Key	H	½	F	TF
Value	Heats	Semifinals	Final	Timed final

A = Afternoon session, N = Night session

Men

Date →	Sun 6		Sep 7		Sep 8		Sep 9		Sep 10		Sep 11
Event ↓	A	N	A	N	A	N	A	N	A	N	A	N
50 m freestyle											H	F
100 m freestyle					H	F
200 m freestyle	H	F
400 m freestyle								F
800 m freestyle				F
1500 m freestyle										F
50 m backstroke	H	F
100 m backstroke									H	F
200 m backstroke					H	F
50 m breaststroke			H	F
100 m breaststroke	H	F
200 m breaststroke							H	F
50 m butterfly					H	F
100 m butterfly			H	F
200 m butterfly									H	F
200 m individual medley											H	F
400 m individual medley		F
4 × 100 m freestyle relay							H	F
4 × 200 m freestyle relay						F
4 × 100 m medley relay												F

Women

Date →	Sun 6		Sep 7		Sep 8		Sep 9		Sep 10		Sep 11
Event ↓	A	N	A	N	A	N	A	N	A	N	A	N
50 m freestyle									H	F
100 m freestyle	H	F
200 m freestyle			H	F
400 m freestyle						F
800 m freestyle								F
1500 m freestyle												F
50 m backstroke	H	F
100 m backstroke					H	F
200 m backstroke												F
50 m breaststroke					H	F
100 m breaststroke							H	F
200 m breaststroke			H	F
50 m butterfly			H	F
100 m butterfly							H	F
200 m butterfly											H	F
200 m individual medley									H	F
400 m individual medley		F
4 × 100 m freestyle relay						F
4 × 200 m freestyle relay		F
4 × 100 m medley relay												F

Medal summary

Swimming medal standings upon completion of the competition are:^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa	25	18	11	54
2	Egypt	11	18	12	41
3	Algeria	3	2	5	10
4	Zimbabwe	3	0	1	4
5	Tunisia	0	2	9	11
6	Angola	0	1	0	1
	Botswana	0	1	0	1
8	Namibia	0	0	3	3
9	Seychelles	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		42	42	42	126

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Douglas Erasmus  South Africa	22.61	Mazen El Kamash  Egypt	22.97	Clayton Jimmie  South Africa	22.98
100 m freestyle details	Clayton Jimmie  South Africa	49.93	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	49.97	Caydon Muller  South Africa	50.28
200 m freestyle details	Devon Brown  South Africa	1:47.77 GR	Marwan El Kamash  Egypt	1:48.58	Ahmed Mathlouthi  Tunisia	1:49.29
400 m freestyle details	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	3:48.06	Devon Brown  South Africa	3:48.69	Ahmed Mathlouthi  Tunisia	3:51.47
800 m freestyle details	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	7:55.36 GR	Marwan El Kamash  Egypt	7:59.54	Devon Brown  South Africa	7:59.57
1500 m freestyle details	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	15:11.68	Ahmed Mathlouthi  Tunisia	15:30.36	Brent Szurdoki  South Africa	15:35.48
50 m backstroke details	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	25.71	Richard Ellis  South Africa	25.89	Mohamed Khaled  Egypt	26.16
100 m backstroke details	Richard Ellis  South Africa	55.83	David de Villiers  South Africa	55.84	Mohamed Samy  Egypt	56.31
200 m backstroke details	Martin Binedell  South Africa	2:02.23	Richard Ellis  South Africa	2:02.32	Mohamed Khaled  Egypt	2:04.35
50 m breaststroke details	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	27.18	Youssef El Kamash  Egypt	28.10	Wassim Elloumi  Tunisia	28.62
100 m breaststroke details	Cameron van der Burgh  South Africa	1:00.19 GR	Youssef El Kamash  Egypt	1:02.42	Wassim Elloumi  Tunisia	1:02.79
200 m breaststroke details	Ayrton Sweeney  South Africa	2:14.41	Wassim Elloumi  Tunisia	2:17.80	Youssef El Kamash  Egypt	2:19.03
50 m butterfly details	Chad le Clos  South Africa	23.51	Omar Eissa  Egypt	24.18	Ahmed Bahgat  Egypt	24.94
100 m butterfly details	Chad le Clos  South Africa	51.24 GR	Omar Eissa  Egypt	53.54	Nico Meyer  South Africa	55.26
200 m butterfly details	Ahmed Akram  Egypt	1:58.87	Devon Brown  South Africa	1:59.28	Ahmed Hamdy  Egypt	2:01.54
200 m Individual medley details	Devon Brown  South Africa	2:01.71	Mohamed Khaled  Egypt	2:02.38	Ayrton Sweeney  South Africa	2:04.22
400 m Individual medley details	Ayrton Sweeney  South Africa	4:21.83	Pedro Pinotes  Angola	4:23.12	Ahmed Hamdy  Egypt	4:23.87
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay details	South Africa Douglas Erasmus (50.29) Clayton Jimmie (49.67) Calvyn Justus (50.05) Caydon Muller (49.68)	3:19.69	Egypt Omar Eissa (50.61) Mohamed Khaled (49.98) Marwan El Kamash (50.27) Mohamed Samy (49.36)	3:20.22	Algeria Badis Djendouci (52.26) Nazim Belkhodja (50.60) Riyad Djendouci (52.28) Lies Abdelghani Nefsi (51.02)	3:26.16
4 × 200 m   freestyle relay details	South Africa Brent Szurdoki (1:51.94) Calvyn Justus (1:50.68) Devon Brown (1:48.05) Chad le Clos (1:47.95)	7:18.62	Egypt Marwan El Amrawy (1:51.60) Mohamed Samy (1:50.63) Ahmed Akram (1:48.61) Marwan El Kamash (1:49.81)	7:20.65	Tunisia Mohamed Mehdi Laagili (1:51.01) Mohamed Ali Chaouachi (1:53.81) Wassim Elloumi (2:01.37) Ahmed Mathlouthi (1:58.87)	7:45.06
4 × 100 m   medley relay details	Egypt Mohamed Khaled (56.85) Youssef El Kamash (1:02.10) Omar Eissa (54.16) Mohamed Samy (49.33)	3:42.44	South Africa Richard Ellis (55.90) Ayrton Sweeney (1:03.39) Nico Meyer (54.37) Clayton Jimmie (49.19)	3:42.85	Tunisia Ahmed Mathlouthi (58.10) Wassim Elloumi (1:02.93) Mohamed Mehdi Laagili (59.16) Mohamed Ali Chaoachi (51.81)	3:52.00

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Farida Osman  Egypt	25.12 GR	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	25.79	Rowan El Badry  Egypt	26.04
100 m freestyle details	Farida Osman  Egypt	55.41 GR	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	55.69	Rowan El Badry  Egypt	57.03
200 m freestyle details	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	2:00.14	Marlies Ross  South Africa	2:02.61	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	2:02.63
400 m freestyle details	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	4:18.86	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	4:19.24	Marlies Ross  South Africa	4:19.43
800 m freestyle details	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	8:58.53	Charlise Oberholzer  South Africa	9:00.15	Roaia Mashaly  Egypt	9:07.94
1500 m freestyle details	Majda Chebaraka  Algeria	17:07.82	Charlise Oberholzer  South Africa	17:11.34	Souad Nafissa Cherouati  Algeria	17:18.35
50 m backstroke details	Jessica Ashley Cooper  South Africa	29.05	Naomi Ruele  Botswana	29.70	Alexus Laird  Seychelles	30.07
100 m backstroke details	Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe	1:01.15	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	1:02.53	Jessica Ashley Cooper  South Africa	1:03.32
200 m backstroke details	Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe	2:13.29	Karin Prinsloo  South Africa	2:14.31	Rim Ouennich  Tunisia	2:20.16
50 m breaststroke details	Tatjana Schoenmaker  South Africa	32.49	Maii Atif  Egypt	32.58	Daniela Lindemeier  Namibia	32.69
100 m breaststroke details	Tatjana Schoenmaker  South Africa	1:09.47	Maii Atif  Egypt	1:11.07	Daniela Lindemeir  Namibia	1:11.31
200 m breaststroke details	Tatjana Schoenmaker  South Africa	2:28.84	Kelly Gunnell  South Africa	2:31.52	Daniela Lindemeier  Namibia	2:34.23
50 m butterfly details	Farida Osman  Egypt	26.31 GR	Vanessa Mohr  South Africa	26.39	Jessica Ashley Cooper  South Africa	27.02
100 m butterfly details	Farida Osman  Egypt	58.83	Vanessa Mohr  South Africa	1:00.26	Rita Naude  South Africa	1:03.86
200 m butterfly details	Rene Warnes  South Africa	2:16.40	Rwioda Heshem  Egypt	2:17.80	Mariam Sakr  Egypt	2:20.49
200 m Individual medley details	Kirsty Coventry  Zimbabwe	2:16.05	Marlies Ross  South Africa	2:17.57	Rene Warnes  South Africa	2:18.98
400 m Individual medley details	Hamida Rania Nefsi  Algeria	4:56.75	Souad Nafissa Cherouati  Algeria	4:57.30	Rwioda Heshem  Egypt	4:58.88
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay details	South Africa Marlies Ross (57.91) Jessica Ashley Cooper (57.14) Vannessa Mohr (58.50) Karin Prinsloo (55.49)	3:49.04	Egypt Rowan El Badry (56.71) Salma Saber (58.43) Maii Atif (1:00.13) Farida Osman (55.03)	3:50.30	Tunisia Rim Ouennich (59.61) Farah Ben Khelil (59.69) Asma Ben Boukhatem (1:01.15) Asma Sammoud (59.10)	3:59.55
4 × 200 m   freestyle relay details	South Africa Rene Warnes (2:04.51) Marlies Ross (2:06.57) Charlise Oberholzer (2:08.04) Karin Prinsloo (2:01.16)	8:20.28	Egypt Roaia Mashaly (2:05.51) Salma Saber (2:06.64) Mariam Sakr (2:07.20) Rowan El Badry (2:11.19)	8:30.84	Algeria Majda Chebaraka (2:03.89) Hamida Rania Nefsi (2:13.31) Souad Nafissa Cherouati (2:08.26) Hannah Taleb Bendiab (2:09.65)	8:35.11
4 × 100 m   medley relay details	South Africa Jessica Ashley Cooper (1:03.26) Tatjana Schoenmaker (1:11.07) Vannessa Mohr (1:02.10) Karin Prinsloo (55.93)	4:12.36	Egypt Mariam Sakr (1:07.44) Maii Atif (1:11.10) Farida Osman (59.72) Rowan El Badry (56.92)	4:15.18	Tunisia Rim Ouennich (1:06.57) Farah Ben Khelil (1:16.88) Asma Sammoud (1:04.68) Asma Ben Boukhatem (1:02.51)	4:29.64

Mixed events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay details	South Africa Chad le Clos (48.50) Clayton Jimmie (50.22) Marlies Ross (57.10) Karin Prinsloo (55.74)	3:31.56	Egypt Rowan El Badry (56.71) Mohammed Khaled (50.69) Farida Osman (55.69) Mohamed Samy (49.43)	3:32.52	Algeria Nazim Belkhodja (50.70) Souad Nafissa Cherouati (58.36) Badis Djendouci (52.25) Majda Chebaraka (59.62)	3:49.04
4 × 100 m   medley relay details	Egypt Mohamed Samy (57.28) Youssef El Kamash (1:02.67) Farida Osman (59.27) Rowan El Badry (56.82)	3:56.04	South Africa Jessica Ashley Cooper (1:03.79) Alaric Basson (1:03.04) Nico Meyer (54.63) Karin Prinsloo (54.81)	3:56.27	Zimbabwe Kirsty Coventry (1:02.10) James Lawson (1:02.92) Tarryn Rennie (1:05.08) Sean Gunn (50.68)	4:00.78