Swimming at the 2007 All-Africa Games

Main article: 2007 All-Africa Games

Swimming at the 2007
All-Africa Games

The Swimming competition at the 9th All-Africa Games were held in Algiers, Algeria, 11 – 18 July 2007. 121 swimmers from 16 nations were entered into the 7-day competition.

All events were swum in a 50-meter (long course) pool.

Participating nations

121 swimmers from 17 nations were entered in the Swimming competition:

•  Algeria (18)
•  Angola (6)
•  Burundi (4)
•  Ivory Coast (1)
•  Guinea (5)
•  Libya (5)
•  Madagascar (1)
•  Mauritius (1)
•  Mali (7)
•  Mozambique (6)
•  Namibia (8)
•  Niger (2)
•  Nigeria (14)
•  Senegal (16)
•  South Africa (24)
•  Zambia (3)}

Event schedule

Date	Thursday July 12	Friday July 13	Saturday July 14	Sunday July 15
E v e n t s	400 free (m) 100 free (w) 100 breast (m) 400 IM (w) 100 fly (m) 800 Free Relay (w)	50 fly (w) 200 free (m) 200 free (w) 400 IM (m) 200 breast (w) 800 Free Relay (m)	50 breast (m) 100 free (m) 100 back (w) 200 back (m) 800 free (w) 400 Free Relay (w)	off
Date	Monday July 16	Tuesday July 17	Wednesday July 18
E v e n t s	50 back (w) 50 back (m) 100 fly (w) 200 breast (m) 100 breast (w) 800 free (m) 400 Free Relay (m)	50 breast (w) 50 fly (m) 200 fly (w) 200 IM (m) 200 back (w) 1500 free (w) 400 Medley Relay (m)	400 free (w) 50 free (m) 50 fre (w) 200 fly (m) 200 IM (w) 100 back (m) 1500 free (m) 400 Medley Relay (w)

m= men's event, w= women's event

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Salim Iles   Algeria	22.34	Jason Dunford   Kenya	22.73	Gideon Louw   South Africa	22.81
100 m freestyle	Salim Iles   Algeria	49.38	Nabil Kebbab   Algeria	49.82	Jason Dunford   Kenya	50.09
200 m freestyle	Nabil Kebbab   Algeria	1:50.30 NR	Jean Basson   South Africa	1:50.:33	Jason Dunford   Kenya	1:50.64
400 m freestyle	Troyden Prinsloo   South Africa	3:55.29	Ahmed Mathlouthi   Tunisia	3:55.75	Jean Basson   South Africa	3:57.97
800 m freestyle	Troyden Prinsloo   South Africa	8:02.84	Riaan Schoeman   South Africa	8:11.23	Mohamed Gadallah   Egypt	8:16.10
1500 m freestyle	Troyden Prinsloo   South Africa	15:24.93	Riaan Schoeman   South Africa	15:58.:31	Mohamed Gadallah   Egypt	16:05.20
50 m backstroke	Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa	25.68	Ahmed Hussein   Egypt	26.13	Jason Dunford   Kenya	26.31
100 m backstroke	Gerhard Zandberg   South Africa	56.53	Jason Dunford   Kenya	57.57	Garth Tune   South Africa	58.54
200 m backstroke	George du Rand   South Africa	2:02.69	Ahmed Hussein   Egypt	2:05.03	Taki Mrabet   Tunisia	2:05.35
50 m breaststroke	Cameron van der Burgh   South Africa	27.74	Thabang Moeketsane   South Africa	28.89	Malick Fall   Senegal	29.26
100 m breaststroke	Cameron van der Burgh   South Africa	1:02.05	Sofiane Daid   Algeria	1:02.11	Thabang Moeketsane   South Africa	1:02.54
200 m breaststroke	Sofiane Daid   Algeria	2:14.27	William Diering   South Africa	2:14.32	Malick Fall   Senegal	2:22.10
50 m butterfly	Jason Dunford   Kenya	23.91	Yellow Yeiyah	24.46	Garth Tune   South Africa	25.02
100 m butterfly	Jason Dunford   Kenya	53.40	George du Rand   South Africa	54.97	Ahmed Nada   Egypt	55.85
200 m butterfly	Jason Dunford   Kenya	2:02.82	Ahmed Nada   Egypt	2:03.35	Ahmed Aboughazala   Egypt	2:05.12
200 m I.M.	Ahmed Mathlouthi   Tunisia	2:05.21	Riaan Schoeman   South Africa	2:05.23	Darian Townsend   South Africa	2:06.10
400 m I.M.	Riaan Schoeman   South Africa	4:21.91	Ahmed Mathlouthi   Tunisia	4.27.00	Taki Mrabet   Tunisia	4.28.83
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay	South Africa	3:22.52	Algeria	3:24.36	Egypt	3:29.76
4 × 200 m   freestyle relay	South Africa	7.31.70	Algeria	7.32.50 NR	Tunisia	7.43.53
4 × 100 m   medley relay	South Africa	3:44.92	Algeria	3:47.31	Egypt	3:49.60

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	26.19	Heather Brand   Zimbabwe	26.65	Sarra Chahed   Tunisia	26.72
100 m freestyle	Melissa Corfe   South Africa	57.44	Liezi Mari Burger   South Africa	58.03	Heather Brand   Zimbabwe	58.08
200 m freestyle	Melissa Corfe   South Africa	2:02.45	Maroua Mathlouthi   Tunisia	2:05.11	Kathryn Meaklim   South Africa	2:06.32
400 m freestyle	Melissa Corfe   South Africa	4:15.53	Kathryn Meaklim   South Africa	4:21.97	Maroua Mathlouthi   Tunisia	4:25.83
800 m freestyle	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	8:43.89	Maroua Mathlouthi   Tunisia	8:57.91	Dominique Dryding   South Africa	9:13.12
1500 m freestyle	Natalie du Toit   South Africa	17:06.05	Maroua Mathlouthi   Tunisia	17:22.83 NR	Dominique Dryding   South Africa	17:31.51
50 m backstroke	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	28.89	Chanelle Van Wyk   South Africa	30.35	Jessica Pengelly   South Africa	30.90
100 m backstroke	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	1:01.28	Melissa Corfe   South Africa	1:05.64	Karima Lahmar   Algeria	1:06.92 NR
200 m backstroke	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	2:10.66	Melissa Corfe   South Africa	2:13.88	Jessica Pengelly   South Africa	2:15.59
50 m breaststroke	Suzaan van Biljon   South Africa	32.62	Amira Kouza   Algeria	33.03 NR	Meriem Lamri   Algeria	33.25
100 m breaststroke	Suzaan van Biljon   South Africa	1:09.74	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	1:11.86	Meriem Lamri   Algeria	1:12.39
200 m breaststroke	Suzaan van Biljon   South Africa	2:32.30	Jessica Pengelly   South Africa	2:32.30	Lydia Yefsah   Algeria	2:37.72
50 m butterfly	Mandy Loots   South Africa	27.60	Heather Brand   Zimbabwe	27.89	Binta Zahra Diop   Senegal	28.35
100 m butterfly	Mandy Loots   South Africa	1:00.:09	Heather Brand   Zimbabwe	1:00.61	Ellen Hight   Zambia	1:03.38
200 m butterfly	Mandy Loots   South Africa	2:14.28	Kathryn Meaklim   South Africa	2:14.77	Heather Brand   Zimbabwe	2:17.59
200 m I.M.	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	2:13.02	Jessica Pengelly   South Africa	2:17.79	Sarra Lajnef   Tunisia	2:23.26
400 m I.M.	Kirsty Coventry   Zimbabwe	4:39.91	Jessica Pengelly   South Africa	4:43.97	Kathryn Meaklim   South Africa	4.48.06
4 × 100 m   freestyle relay	South Africa	3.56.05	Egypt	3.59.47	Tunisia	3.59.99
4 × 200 m   freestyle relay	South Africa	8.28.46	Zimbabwe	8.38.20	Algeria	8.42.62
4 × 100 m   medley relay	South Africa	4:10.90	Zimbabwe	4:21.60	Algeria	4:24.54 NR

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa	25	15	12	52
2	Zimbabwe	7	6	2	15
3	Algeria	4	6	6	16
4	Kenya	3	2	3	8
5	Tunisia	1	5	7	13
6	Egypt	0	4	6	10
7	Namibia	0	1	0	1
	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
9	Senegal	0	0	3	3
10	Zambia	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		40	40	40	120

References

• SwimNews.com coverage: 2007-07-13; 2007-07-14, 2007-07-15, 2007-07-16, 2007-07-17, 2007-07-18
• International Herald Tribune: [1] [2] [3]