List of African Games medalists in swimming (women) explained

This is the complete list of women's African Games medalists in swimming from 1973 to 2019. Before 2015 it was known as the All-Africa Games.^[1]

Events

50m Freestyle

1987
1991
1995
1999	Rania Elwani   Egypt Stacey Bowley   South Africa	26.56	not awarded		Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	26.72
2003	Lauren Roets   South Africa	26.31	Ngozi Monu   Nigeria	27.71	Nadia Chahed   Tunisia	28.16
2007	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	26.19	Heather Brand   Zimbabwe	26.65	Sarra Chahed   Tunisia	26.72
2011		25.98		26.73		26.75
2015		25.12 GR		25.79		26.04
2019		24.95 GR, NR		25.06		25.25

100m Freestyle

1973
1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	Charlene Wittstock   South Africa	57.46	Teresa Moodie   Zimbabwe	58.04	Rania Elwani   Egypt	58.12
2003	Lauren Roets   South Africa	56.79	Christin Zwiegers   South Africa	57.90	Salama Ismail   Egypt	58.53
2007	Melissa Corfe   South Africa	57.44	Liezi Mari Burger   South Africa	58.03	Heather Brand   Zimbabwe	58.08
2011		56.05 GR		58.01		58.11
2015		55.41 GR		55.69		57.03
2019		55.13 GR		55.62		55.86

200m Freestyle

1973
1978
1987
1991
1991
1995
1999	Kim van Selm   South Africa	2:05.50	Kirsten van Heerden   South Africa	2:06.15	Rania Elwani   Egypt	2:08.08
2003	Lauren Roets   South Africa	2:06.27	Kirsten van Heerden   South Africa	2:08.84	Khadija Ciss   Senegal	2:09.00
2007	Melissa Corfe   South Africa	2:02.45	Maroua Mathlouthi   Tunisia	2:05.11	Katheryn Meaklim   South Africa	2:06.32
2011		1:59.84 GR		2:05.44		2:06.20
2015		2:00.14		2:02.61		2:02.63
2019		2:04.31		2:04.75		2:05.51

400m Freestyle

1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	Kim van Selm   South Africa	4:26.50	Kirsten van Heerden   South Africa	4:27.04	Boutheina Elouer   Tunisia	4:40.03
2003	Kirsten van Heerden   South Africa	4:28.19	Heba Selim   Egypt	4:29.13	Shrone Austin   Seychelles	4:30.84
2007	Melissa Corfe   South Africa	4:15.53	Katheryn Meaklim   South Africa	4:21.97	Maroua Mathlouthi   Tunisia	4:25.83
2011		4:19.73		4:20.75 NR		4:21.58
2015		4:18.86		4:19.24		4:19.43
2019		4:21.36		4:22.95		4:24.60

800m Freestyle

1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	Kim van Selm   South Africa	9:13.30	Bronwyn Dedekind   South Africa	9:19.04	Maha Elmerghany   Egypt	9:44.72
2003	Natalie du Toit   South Africa	9:09.66	Shrone Austin   Seychelles	9:13.03	Heba Selim   Egypt	9:17.15
2007	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	8:43.89	Maroua Mathlouthi   Tunisia	8:57.91	Dominique Dryding   South Africa	9:13.12
2011		8:54.64		8:59.23		9:08.10
2015		8:58.53		9:00.15		9:07.94
2019		8:54.01		8:55.32		9:07.21

1500m Freestyle

2003	Velia van Rensburg   South Africa	17:24.64	Shrone Austin   Seychelles	17:30.27	Heba Selim   Egypt	17:35.23
2007	Natalie du Toit   South Africa	17:06.05	Maroua Mathlouthi   Tunisia	17:22.83 NR	Dominique Dryding   South Africa	17:31.51
2011		17:03.22 GR		17:21.95		17:27.76
2015		17:07.82		17:11.34		17:18.35
2019		17:06.71		17:11.07		17:22.15

50m Backstroke

2003	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	30.10	Romy Altmann   South Africa	30.29	Inyengiyik Obia   Nigeria	31.06
2007	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	28.89	Chanelle Van Wyk   South Africa	30.35	Jessica Pengelly   South Africa	30.90
2011		29.28		29.76		31.01
2015		29.05		29.70		30.07
2019		29.05		29.17 NR		29.22

100m Backstroke

1973
1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	Charlene Wittstock   South Africa	1:04.31	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	1:05.29	Taryn Ternent   South Africa	1:05.95
2003	Romy Altmann   South Africa	1:02.89	Jo-Ann Bergman   South Africa	1:07.61	Sarah Chahed   Tunisia	1:07.94
2007	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	1:01.28	Melissa Corfe   South Africa	1:05.64	Karima Lahmar   Algeria	1:06.92 NR
2011		1:00.86 GR		1:01.46		1:07.27
2015		1:01.15		1:02.53		1:03.32
2019		1:02.42		1:02.62		1:03.76

200m Backstroke

1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	Mandy Loots   South Africa	2:21.22	Taryn Cokayne   South Africa	2:23.27	Mandy Leach   Zimbabwe	2:29.14
2003	Romy Altmann   South Africa	2:15.15	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	2:22.50	Soha Abdallah   Egypt	2:26.12
2007	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	2:10.66	Melissa Corfe   South Africa	2:13.88	Jessica Pengelly   South Africa	2:15.59
2011		2:12.40		2:16.68		2:18.18
2015		2:13.29		2:14.31		2:20.16
2019		2:14.55 NR		2:15.55		2:22.50

50m Breastroke

2003	Ingrid Haiden   South Africa	32.89	Ziada Jardine   South Africa	32.99	Salama Ismail   Egypt	33.33
2007	Suzaan van Biljon   South Africa	32.62	Amira Kouza   Algeria	33.03 NR	Meriem Lamri   Algeria	33.25
2011		32.88		33.74		33.81 NR
2015		32.49		32.58		32.69
2019		32.20 GR		32.70		32.92

100m Breastroke

1973
1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	Penny Heyns   South Africa	1:07.58   GR	Ziada Jardine   South Africa	1:15.31	Nadia Cruz   Angola	1:18.05
2003	Ingrid Haiden   South Africa	1:11.00	Salama Ismail   Egypt	1:11.92	Ziada Jardine   South Africa	1:12.82
2007	Suzaan van Biljon   South Africa	1:09.74	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	1:11.86	Meriem Lamri   Algeria	1:12.39
2011		1:10.40		1:12.78		1:15.39
2015		1:09.47		1:11.07		1:11.31
2019		1:09.75		1:10.67		1:13.36

200m Breastroke

1973
1978
1987
1995
1999	Penny Heyns   South Africa	2:28.00   GR	Sarah Poewe   South Africa	2:32.80	Lauren Harvey   Zimbabwe	2:53.17
2003	Ingrid Haiden   South Africa	2:32.66	Salama Ismail   Egypt	2:37.20	Ziada Jardine   South Africa	2:43.50
2007	Suzaan van Biljon   South Africa	2:32.30	Jessica Pengelly   South Africa	2:32.30	Lydia Yefsah   Algeria	2:37.72
2011		2:31.53		2:34.17		2:36.16
2015		2:28.84		2:31.52		2:34.23
2019		2:29.23		2:35.30		2:39.22

50m Butterfly

2003	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	27.56	Lauren Sparg   South Africa	28.53	May Raafat   Egypt	29.78
2007	Mandy Loots   South Africa	27.60	Heather Brand   Zimbabwe	27.89	Binta Zahra Diop   Senegal	28.35
2011		27.08 GR		27.30		28.45
2015		26.31 GR		26.39		27.02
2019		25.94 GR		26.24 NR		27.40

100m Butterfly

1973
1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	Mandy Loots   South Africa	1:01.32   GR	Candice Crafford   South Africa	1:03.64	Teresa Moodie   Zimbabwe	1:05.18
2003	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	1:01.78	Lauren Sparg   South Africa	1:02.63	May Raafat   Egypt	1:05.01
2007	Mandy Loots   South Africa	1:00.:09	Heather Brand   Zimbabwe	1:00.61	Ellen Hight   Zambia	1:03.38
2011		59.86 GR		1:02.20		1:03.14
2015		58.83		1:00.26		1:03.86
2019		58.79 GR		59.34		1:00.61 NR

200m Butterfly

1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	Mandy Loots   South Africa	2:16.02   GR	Natalie du Toit   South Africa	2:19.80	Kenza Bennaceur   Algeria	2:33.54
2003	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	2:17.47	Chanelle Van Wyk   South Africa	2:20.05	May Raafat   Egypt	2:20.80
2007	Mandy Loots   South Africa	2:14.28	Katheryn Meaklim   South Africa	2:14.77	Heather Brand   Zimbabwe	2:17.59
2011		2:12.46 GR		2:16.66		2:20.61
2015		2:16.40		2:17.80		2:20.49
2019		2:18.21		2:20.33		2:21.51

200 m Individual Medley

1973
1987
1991
1995
1999	Mandy Loots   South Africa	2:20.02   GR	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	2:23.42	Mandy Leach   Zimbabwe	2:25.53
2003	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	2:21.64	Salama Ismail   Egypt	2:23.89	Bianca Meyer   South Africa	2:24.42
2007	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	2:13.02	Jessica Pengelly   South Africa	2:17.79	Sarra Lajnef   Tunisia	2:23.26
2011		2:13.70		2:15.71		2:18.60
2015		2:16.05		2:17.57		2:18.98
2019		2:19.44		2:20.57		2:21.70

400 m Individual Medley

1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	Mandy Loots   South Africa	4:59.50   GR	Natalie du Toit   South Africa	5:06.62	Kenza Bennaceur   Algeria	5:29.60
2003	Bianca Meyer   South Africa	5:03.06	Shrone Austin   Seychelles	5:09.41	Kirsten van Heerden   South Africa	5:13.75
2007	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	4:39.91	Jessica Pengelly   South Africa	4:43.97	Katheryn Meaklim   South Africa	4.48.06
2011		4:44.34		4:46.33		4:51.20
2015		4:56.75		4:57.30		4:58.88
2019		4:55.31		4:58.55		5:01.35

4x100 m Freestyle Relay

1973
1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	Zimbabwe   Kirsty Coventry,   Tanya Gurr,   Mandy Leach,   Teresa Moody	3:53.45	South Africa   Charlene Wittstock,   Stacey Bowley,   Candice Crafford,   Kim van Selm	3:54.31	Egypt	4:11.06
2003	South Africa	3:52.74	Egypt	4:04.68	Tunisia	4:04.68
2007	South Africa	3.56.05	Egypt	3.59.47	Tunisia	3.59.99
2011		3:53.93		3:57.81		4:02.84
2015	Marlies Ross (57.91) Jessica Ashley Cooper (57.14) Vannessa Mohr (58.50) Karin Prinsloo (55.49)	3:49.04	Rowan El Badry (56.71) Salma Saber (58.43) Maii Atif (1:00.13) Farida Osman (55.03)	3:50.30	Rim Ouennich (59.61) Farah Ben Khelil (59.69) Asma Ben Boukhatem (1:01.15) Asma Sammoud (59.10)	3:59.55
2019	Erin Gallagher (55.42) Jessica Whelan (58.83) Kerryn Herbst (58.32) Emma Chelius (56.31)	3:48.88 GR	Amina Elsebelgy (59.00) Yasmin Hassan (59.11) Hania Moro (58.97) Farida Osman (56.45)	3:53.53	Amel Melih (57.07) NR Hamida Rania Nefsi (59.63) Sara El Tahawi (1:02.02) Majda Chebaraka (59.56)	3:58.28

4x200 m Freestyle Relay

1987
1991
1995
1999	South Africa   Kirsten van Heerden,   Stacey Bowley,   Bronwyn Dedekind,   Kim van Selm	8:36.76	Zimbabwe	8:47.56	Egypt	9:18.40
2003	South Africa	8:40.84	Egypt	8:45.18	Tunisia	9:53.35
2007	South Africa	8.28.46	Zimbabwe	8.38.20	Algeria	8.42.62
2011	Roxanne Tammadge Rene Warnes Karin Prinsloo Dominique Dryding	8:28.20	Kirsten Lapham Nicole Horn Samantha Welch Kirsty Coventry	8:42.23	Malia Mghezzi Bekhouche Fella Bennaceur Amel Melih Sarah Hadj Abdelrahmane	8:57.78
2015	Rene Warnes (2:04.51) Marlies Ross (2:06.57) Charlise Oberholzer (2:08.04) Karin Prinsloo (2:01.16)	8:20.28	Roaia Mashaly (2:05.51) Salma Saber (2:06.64) Mariam Sakr (2:07.20) Rowan El Badry (2:11.19)	8:30.84	Majda Chebaraka (2:03.89) Hamida Rania Nefsi (2:13.31) Souad Cherouati (2:08.26) Hannah Taleb Bendiab (2:09.65)	8:35.11
2019	Christin Mundell (2:05.98) Jessica Whelan (2:08.07) Carla Antonopoulos (2:09.67) Erin Gallagher (2:06.85)	8:30.57	Nour Elgendy (2:12.37) Logaine Abdellatif (2:10.35) Farida Samra (2:09.24) Hania Moro (2:08.33)	8:40.29	Majda Chebaraka (2:08.34) Amel Melih (2:07.99) Sara El Tahawi (2:16.42) Hamida Rania Nefsi (2:10.00)	8:42.75

4x100 m Medley Relay

1973
1978
1987
1991
1995
1999	South Africa   Charlene Wittstock,   Penny Heyns,   Mandy Loots,   Stacey Bowley	4:11.57   GR	Zimbabwe	4:28.96	Egypt	4:48.17
2003	South Africa	4:11.37	Egypt	4:31.84	Tunisia	4:37.84
2007	South Africa	4:10.90	Zimbabwe	4:21.60	Algeria	4:24.54 NR
2011		4:14.00		4:24.01		4:29.29
2015	Jessica Ashley Cooper (1:03.26) Tatjana Schoenmaker (1:11.07) Vannessa Mohr (1:02.10) Karin Prinsloo (55.93)	4:12.36	Mariam Sakr (1:07.44) Maii Atif (1:11.10) Farida Osman (59.72) Rowan El Badry (56.92)	4:15.18	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
2019	Kerryn Herbst (1:04.40) Kaylene Corbett (1:10.88) Erin Gallagher (1:00.27) Emma Chelius (56.87)	4:12.42	Rola Hussein (1:05.96) Sarah Soliman (1:13.53) Farida Osman (1:00.94) Hania Moro (59.64)	4:20.07	Sylvia Brunlehner (1:06.94) Rebecca Kamau (1:13.87) Emily Muteti (1:02.80) Maria Brunlehner (58.11)	4:21.72

Notes and References

1. Web site: All Africa Games index . www.todor66.com.