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.

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	Ali Khalafalla Egypt	22.51	Bradley Vincent Mauritius	22.86	Abdelrahman Sameh Egypt	23.03
100m freestyle	Mohamed Samy Egypt	49.39 CR	Ali Khalafalla Egypt	49.89	Bradley Vincent Mauritius	50.24
200m freestyle	Mohamed Samy Egypt	1:49.62 CR	Marwan Elkamash Egypt	1:49.88	Mohamed Aziz Ghaffari Tunisia	1:50.07
400m freestyle	Marwan Elkamash Egypt	3:51.12 CR	Marwan El-Amrawy Egypt	3:55.52	Mohamed Aziz Ghaffari Tunisia	3:56.68
800m freestyle	Marwan Elkamash Egypt	8:02.37 CR	Marwan El-Amrawy Egypt	8:07.42	Ahmed Hafnaoui Tunisia	8:08.74
1500m freestyle	Marwan Elkamash Egypt	15:26.40 CR	Marwan El-Amrawy Egypt	15:32.23	Ahmed Hafnaoui Tunisia	15:45.46
50m backstroke	Mohamed Samy Egypt	25.49 CR	Jacques van Wyk South Africa	25.90	Abdellah Ardjoune Algeria	26.54
100m backstroke	Mohamed Samy Egypt	55.49 CR	Jacques van Wyk South Africa	55.54	Ali Khalafalla Egypt	56.70
200m backstroke	Mohamed Ryad Bouhamidi Algeria	2:05.13	Jacques van Wyk South Africa	2:05.76	Mohamed Samy Egypt	2:06.88
50m breaststroke	Youssef Elkamash Egypt	28.04	Wassim Elloumi Tunisia	28.25 =NR	Alaric Basson South Africa	28.42
100m breaststroke	Wassim Elloumi Tunisia	1:01.26 CR, NR	Youssef Elkamash Egypt Alaric Basson South Africa	1:01.54	Not awarded
200m breaststroke	Ayrton Sweeney South Africa	2:14.04 CR	Wassim Elloumi Tunisia	2:15.76	Alaric Basson South Africa	2:16.16
50m butterfly	Abdelrahman Sameh Egypt	23.71	Ali Khalafalla Egypt	24.10	Yusuf Tibazi Morocco	24.11 NR
100m butterfly	Mohamed Samy Egypt	53.72	Yusuf Tibazi Morocco	54.20	Ralph Goveia Zambia	54.53
200m butterfly	Marwan Elkamash Egypt	2:00.96	Ruan Breytenbach South Africa	2:01.20	Said Saber Morocco	2:02.49
200m individual medley	Mohamed Samy Egypt	2:01.21 CR	Ayrton Sweeney South Africa	2:02.16	Moncef Aymen Balamane Algeria	2:05.23
400m individual medley	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	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	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	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	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	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	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.

External links

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