2018 African Swimming Championships Explained

13th African Swimming Championships
Hostcity:	Algiers, Algeria
Events:	44
Dates:	10–16 September
Previous:	2016
Next:	2021

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]

Results

Men

50m freestyle	Ali Khalafalla	22.51	Bradley Vincent	22.86	Abdelrahman Sameh	23.03
100m freestyle	Mohamed Samy	49.39 CR	Ali Khalafalla	49.89	Bradley Vincent	50.24
200m freestyle	Mohamed Samy	1:49.62 CR	Marwan Elkamash	1:49.88	Mohamed Aziz Ghaffari	1:50.07
400m freestyle	Marwan Elkamash	3:51.12 CR	Marwan El-Amrawy	3:55.52	Mohamed Aziz Ghaffari	3:56.68
800m freestyle	Marwan Elkamash	8:02.37 CR	Marwan El-Amrawy	8:07.42	Ahmed Hafnaoui	8:08.74
1500m freestyle	Marwan Elkamash	15:26.40 CR	Marwan El-Amrawy	15:32.23	Ahmed Hafnaoui	15:45.46
50m backstroke	Mohamed Samy	25.49 CR	Jacques van Wyk	25.90	Abdellah Ardjoune	26.54
100m backstroke	Mohamed Samy	55.49 CR	Jacques van Wyk	55.54	Ali Khalafalla	56.70
200m backstroke	Mohamed Ryad Bouhamidi	2:05.13	Jacques van Wyk	2:05.76	Mohamed Samy	2:06.88
50m breaststroke	Youssef Elkamash	28.04	Wassim Elloumi	28.25 =NR	Alaric Basson	28.42
100m breaststroke	Wassim Elloumi	1:01.26 CR, NR	Youssef Elkamash Alaric Basson	1:01.54	Not awarded
200m breaststroke	Ayrton Sweeney	2:14.04 CR	Wassim Elloumi	2:15.76	Alaric Basson	2:16.16
50m butterfly	Abdelrahman Sameh	23.71	Ali Khalafalla	24.10	Yusuf Tibazi	24.11 NR
100m butterfly	Mohamed Samy	53.72	Yusuf Tibazi	54.20	Ralph Goveia	54.53
200m butterfly	Marwan Elkamash	2:00.96	Ruan Breytenbach	2:01.20	Said Saber	2:02.49
200m individual medley	Mohamed Samy	2:01.21 CR	Ayrton Sweeney	2:02.16	Moncef Aymen Balamane	2:05.23
400m individual medley	Ayrton Sweeney	4:21.69	Ruan Breytenbach	4:25.80	Ahmed Hamdi	4:26.73
freestyle relay	Abdelrahman Sameh (51.42) Marwan Elkamash (50.91) Mohamed Samy (49.88) Ali Khalafalla (49.40)	3:21.61 CR	Jacques van Wyk (51.60) Matthew Bowers (52.21) Alaric Basson (51.71) Ayrton Sweeney (51.28)	3:26.80	Mohamed Mehdi Agili (51.72) Ahmed Hafnaoui (52.55) Mohamed Ali Chaouchi (53.03) Mohamed Aziz Ghaffari (50.62)	3:27.92
freestyle relay	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	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	Ruan Breytenbach (1:56.78) Alaric Basson (1:55.03) Ayrton Sweeney (1:51.75) Alard Basson (1:54.63)	7:38.19
medley relay		3:42.87 CR		3:43.21		3:48.26
5 km open water	Marwan El-Amrawy	57:55.21	Said Saber	58:21.42	Adel El-Behary	59:23.50

Women

50m freestyle	Farida Osman	25.11 CR	Erin Gallagher	25.17	Amel Melih	26.15
100m freestyle	Erin Gallagher	54.79 CR	Farida Osman	56.80	Nesrine Medjahed	58.09
200m freestyle	Hania Moro	2:04.46	Jessica Whelan	2:06.14	Janie Coetzer	2:07.08
400m freestyle	Hania Moro	4:21.76	Jessica Whelan	4:23.76	Souad Nafissa Cherouati	4:24.42
800m freestyle	Hania Moro	8:56.95	Souad Nafissa Cherouati	9:01.68	Janie Coetzer	9:12.79
1500m freestyle	Hania Moro	17:15.45	Souad Nafissa Cherouati	17:21.41	Samantha Randle	17:25.08
50m backstroke	Erin Gallagher	29.04 CR	Samiha Mohsen	29.51 NR	Amel Melih	29.67
100m backstroke	Samiha Mohsen	1:04.19	Hannah Kiely	1:04.53	Hiba Fahsi	1:05.98
200m backstroke	Samantha Randle	2:17.15	Hannah Kiely	2:22.01	Hiba Fahsi	2:22.18
50m breaststroke	Lara van Niekerk	31.99 CR	Tilka Paljk	32.15	Jade Simons	33.10
100m breaststroke	Lara van Niekerk	1:11.13	Rowaida Hesham	1:12.01	Jade Simons	1:12.19
200m breaststroke	Lara van Niekerk	2:35.25	Rowaida Hesham	2:38.99	Hamida Rania Nefsi	2:40.10
50m butterfly	Farida Osman	26.16 CR	Erin Gallagher	26.64	Amel Melih	27.52
100m butterfly	Farida Osman	59.03 CR	Erin Gallagher	1:00.45	Nesrine Medjahed	1:04.75
200m butterfly	Rowida Hesham	2:20.25	Hamida Rania Nefsi	2:21.59	Jessica Whelan	2:22.79
200m individual medley	Jessica Whelan	2:19.91	Hamida Rania Nefsi	2:21.72	Farah Ben Khelil	2:21.76
400m individual medley	Hamida Rania Nefsi	4:56.96	Samantha Randle	4:59.75	Jessica Whelan	5:00.66
freestyle relay	Lesley Blignaut (59.86) Hannah Kiely (58.67) Janie Coetzer (59.34) Erin Gallagher (54.76)	3:52.63	Hania Moro (59.06) Rowida Hesham (1:02.36) Samiha Mohsen (58.65) Farida Osman (55.20)	3:55.27	Nesrine Medjahed (57.98) Hamida Rania Nefsi (1:00.26) Souad Nafissa Cherouati (1:00.33) Amel Melih (57.08)	3:55.65 NR
freestyle relay	Jessica Whelan (2:08.08) Janie Coetzer (2:06.89) Tori Oliver (2:12.89) Erin Gallagher (2:02.03)	8:29.89		8:33.30 NR	Menna Kchouk (2:11.78) Alia Gara (2:20.38) Habiba Belghith (2:14.34) Farah Benkhelil (2:18.90)	9:05.40
medley relay	Hannah Kiely (1:04.94) Lara van Niekerk (1:10.40) Erin Gallagher (58.55) Lesley Blignaut (58.94)	4:12.83	Samiha Mohsen (1:04.39) Rowida Hesham (1:13.18) Farida Osman (59.41) Hania Moro (58.98)	4:15.96	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	1:02:49.02	Sandy Atef	1:02:50.48	Dana Akl	1:03:43.81

Mixed

freestyle relay	valign=top	Ali Khalafalla (50.84) Samiha Mohsen (1:00.37) Farida Osman (56.58) Mohamed Samy (49.15)	3:36.94 CR, NR	valign=top		3:37.04	valign=top	Aimen Benabid (52.77) Mehdi Nazim Benbara (51.23) Nesrine Medjahed (59.48) Amel Melih (56.91)	3:40.39 NR
medley relay	valign=top	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	valign=top	Abdellah Ardjoune (57.07) Moncef Aymen Balamane (1:03.00) Nesrine Medjahed (1:05.76) Amel Melih (56.96)	4:02.79 NR	valign=top		4:05.61

Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals.

External links

• Official website
• Results

Notes and References

1. Web site: Information Bulletin. CANA. 11 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180911174845/http://canaswim.com/disciplines/swimming/events/2018/13th-cana-swimming-open-water-championships-algiers-algeria-10-16-september-2018/information-bulletin. 11 September 2018. dead.