Swimming at the 2019 African Games – Men's 800 metre freestyle

The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 21 August 2019.^[1]

Men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2019 African Games
Venue	Mohammed V Sports Complex – Olympic Pool
Dates	21 August
Competitors	10 from 7 nations
Winning time	7:57.21
Medalists
Ahmed Akram    Egypt   Mohamed Agili    Tunisia   Marwan Elkamash    Egypt
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Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Zhang Lin	China	7:32.12	Rome	29 July 2009
African record	Oussama Mellouli	Tunisia	7:35.27	Rome	29 July 2009
Games record	Ahmed Akram	Egypt	7:55.36	Brazzaville	7 September 2015

Results

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	5	Ahmed Akram	Egypt	7:57.21
	2	3	Mohamed Agili	Tunisia	7:57.87
	2	4	Marwan Elkamash	Egypt	8:06.90
4	2	7	Mohamed Djaballah	Algeria	8:08.88	NR
5	2	6	Brent Szurdoki	South Africa	8:12.87
6	2	2	Michael McGlynn	South Africa	8:27.52
7	2	1	Damien Otogbe	Togo	9:20.11
8	1	4	João Duarte	Angola	9:22.57
9	1	5	Solomon Beraki	Eritrea	12:11.63
10	1	3	Nejim Tesfay	Eritrea	13:20.33