2008 African Swimming Championships

The 9th African Swimming Championships were held at Ellis Park, Johannesburg, South Africa from December 1-7, 2008.

Participants

Swimmers from 18 countries^[1] competed at the 2008 African Swimming Championships:

Algeria  Angola  Côte d'Ivoire  Egypt  Guinea  Kenya

Mauritius  Morocco  Mozambique  Namibia  Nigeria  Senegal

South Africa  Swaziland  Tanzania  Tunisia  Uganda  Zimbabwe

Results

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Tunisia	13	7	11	31
2	South Africa	11	19	8	38
3	Kenya	5	3	2	10
4	Senegal	2	-	3	5
5	Zimbabwe	-	1	3	4
6	Namibia	-	1	-	1
7	Nigeria	-	-	2	2
8	Angola	-	-	1	1
8	Morocco	-	-	1	1

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	23.26	Timothy Ferris  Zimbabwe	24.08	Yellow Yeiyah  Nigeria	24.15
100 m freestyle	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	49.81	Jason Dunford  Kenya	50.05	Farouk Ben Jeddi  Tunisia	53.23
200 m freestyle	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	1:50.28	Jason Dunford  Kenya	1:52.09	Riaan Schoeman  South Africa	1:52.76
400 m freestyle	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	3:58:17	Riaan Schoeman  South Africa	3:58.57	Ahmed Mathlouthi  Tunisia	4:06.22
800 m freestyle	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	8:20:73	Riaan Schoeman  South Africa	8:24.17	Ahmed Mathlouthi  Tunisia	8:26.09
1500 m freestyle	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	16:12.00	Chad Ho  South Africa	16:18.34	Ahmed Mathlouthi  Tunisia	17:34.47
50 m backstroke	Jason Dunford  Kenya	26.73	Darren Murray  South Africa	26.85	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	26.92
100 m backstroke	George du Rand  South Africa	55.92	Darren Murray  South Africa	57.89	Amine Kouam  Morocco	59.53
200 m backstroke	George du Rand  South Africa	2:01.02	Darren Murray  South Africa	2:06.08	Taki Mrabet  Tunisia	2:10.82
50 m breaststroke	Malick Fall  Senegal	28:38	Thabang Moeketsane  South Africa	29:15	Chad le Clos  South Africa	30:55
100 m breaststroke	Malick Fall  Senegal	1:02.71	William Diering  South Africa	1:02.72	Thabang Moeketsane  South Africa	1:04.30
200 m breaststroke	William Diering  South Africa	2:16:00	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	2:17.57	Chad le Clos  South Africa	2:24.20
50 m butterfly	Jason Dunford  Kenya	23.50	Garth Tune  South Africa	24.42	Yellow Yeiyah  Nigeria	25.27
100 m butterfly	Jason Dunford  Kenya	52.49	Garth Tune  South Africa	54.25	George du Rand  South Africa	54.65
200 m butterfly
200 m individual medley	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	2:06.04	Chad le Clos  South Africa	2:06.76	Taki Mrabet  Tunisia	2:08.54
400 m individual medley	Oussama Mellouli  Tunisia	4:25.16	Riaan Schoeman  South Africa	4:27.40	Taki Mrabet  Tunisia	4:37.31
4 x 100 m freestyle relay	Tunisia Farouk Ben Jeddi Ahmed Mathlouthi Taki Mbaret Oussama Mellouli	3:29.79	South Africa George du Rand Pierre Wirth Garth Tune Riaan Schoeman	3:32.34	Senegal Malick Fall Matar Samb Abdou Khadre Niane Papa Madiop Ndong	3:42.24
4x200m freestyle relay
4 x 100 m medley relay	South Africa Darren Murray Thabang Moeketsane Garth Tune George du Rand	3:48.46	Tunisia Taki Mbaret Oussama Mellouli Farouk Ben Jeddi Ahmed Mathlouthi	3:57.85	Angola Matias Joao Pedro Pinotes Paulo Rebelo Helder Foretes	4:11.98
5km open water[2]	Chad Ho  South Africa	58.39	Aziz Mazen  South Africa	1:00.56	Abdul-Malick Railoun  South Africa	1:00.59

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Sarra Chahed  Tunisia	26.79	Achieng Ajulu-Bushell  Kenya	26.88	Megan Scott  South Africa	27.24
100 m freestyle	Melissa Corfe  South Africa	58.10	Sarra Chahed  Tunisia	58:21	Achieng Ajulu-Bushell  Kenya	58:72
200 m freestyle	Zeineb Khalfallah  Tunisia	2:08.04	Dominique Dryding  South Africa	2:10.28	Moira Fraser  Zimbabwe	2:10.58
400m freestyle
800m freestyle
1500m freestyle
50 m backstroke	Sarra Chahed  Tunisia	31:08	Rene Warnes  South Africa	31.58	Binta Zahra Diop  Senegal	32:44
100 m backstroke	Amanda Loots  South Africa	1:05.21	Jonay Briedenhann  Namibia	1:08.04	Kirsten Lapham  Zimbabwe	1:10.12
200m backstroke
50 m breaststroke	Achieng Ajulu-Bushell  Kenya	32:64	Sarra Lajnef  Tunisia	34:07	Robyn Ferguson  South Africa	35:03
100 m breaststroke	Achieng Ajulu-Bushell  Kenya	1:12.88	Sarra Lajnef  Tunisia	1:13.30	Jessica Liss  South Africa	1:13.49
200 m breaststroke	Jessica Liss  South Africa	2:33.39	Sarra Lajnef  Tunisia	2:40.54	Maxine Heard  Zimbabwe	2:44.30
50 m butterfly	Amanda Loots  South Africa	27:66	Megan Scott  South Africa	28:63	Binta Zahra Diop  Senegal	28:66
100 m butterfly	Amanda Loots  South Africa	1:00.58	Megan Scott  South Africa	1:03.46	Mariem Meddeb  Tunisia	1:04.01
200m butterfly
200 m individual medley	Amanda Loots  South Africa	2:18.91	Jessica Liss  South Africa	2:23.90	Sarra Lajnef  Tunisia	2:24.74
400m individual medley
4 x 100 m freestyle relay	Tunisia Zeineb Khalfallah Sarra Lajnef Mariem Meddeb Sarra Chahed	3:58.45	South Africa Megan Scott Dominique Dryding Robyn Fersugon Amanda Loots	4:06.54	Kenya Pina Ercolano Sylvia Brunlehner Rachita Shah Achieng Ajulu-Bushell	4:16.33 NR
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5km open water[2]	Natalie du Toit  South Africa	1:04.01	Dominique Dryding  South Africa	1:06.43	Sarra Lajnef  Tunisia	1:10.08

See also

• 2008 in swimming

References

1. A list of the countries with swimmers at the championships was included in the article Jessica wears the Golden Smile, published by Swimming South Africa on 2008-12-2. Retrieved 2008-12-9.
2. Ho, Du Toit clinic it for South Africa; published 2008-12-07 by Swimming South Africa. Retrieved 2008-12-09. (The link is an article on the Open Water competition of the 2008 African Championships.

• Full pool results from the CANA website.

External links

• 9h African Swimming Championships
• Swimming South Africa