Swimming at the 1999 All-Africa Games

Swimming at the 7th All-Africa Games was held 12–18 September 1999 at the Ellis Park Aquatic Complex in Johannesburg, South Africa. The six-day meet featured events in a 50-meter (long course) pool.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Participating nations

128 swimmers from 18 nations were entered in the competition.^[7] Among those with swimmers were:

Schedule

Note: Events are listed on correct day, but possibly not in the right order.

Date	12 September	September 13	14 September
E v e n t s	100 free (w) 100 breast (m) 400 IM (w) 200 free (m) 4x200 Free Relay (w)	200 breast (w) 100 fly (m) 200 free (w) 400 IM (m) 4x200 Free Relay (m)	100 free (m) 400 free (w) 200 back (m) 100 back (w) 4x100 Free Relay (w)
Date	15 September	September 16	17 September
E v e n t s	100 fly (w) 200 breast (m) 100 breast (w) 400 free (m) 800 free (w) 4x100 Free Relay (m)	50 free (m) 200 IM (w) 200 fly (m) 100 back (m) 1500 free (m) 4x100 Medley Relay (w)	200 fly (w) 200 IM (m) 200 back (w) 50 free (w) 4x100 Medley Relay

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

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Brendon Dedekind South Africa	22.36 GR	Nicholas Folker South Africa	22.83	Salim Iles Algeria	23.02
100m Freestyle^m1	Brendon Dedekind South Africa	50.50	Salim Iles Algeria	50.58	Nicholas Folker South Africa	50.61
200m Freestyle	Herman Louw South Africa	1:52.68	Glen Walshaw Zimbabwe	1:55.85	Terence Parkin South Africa	1:56.78
400m Freestyle	Ryno Markgraaff South Africa	4:06.93	James Willcox South Africa	4:08.00	Glen Walshaw Zimbabwe	4:09.65
1500m Freestyle	Denis Sirringhaus South Africa	16:17.53	Ryno Markgraaff South Africa	16:50.96	Herbert Couacud Mauritius	16:59.31

100m Backstroke	Mehdi Addadi Algeria	58.28	Benjamin Lo-Pinto Seychelles	59.64	Haitham Hazem Egypt	59.91
200m Backstroke	Brett Rogers South Africa	2:08.83	George Du Rand South Africa	2:10.41	Benjamin Lo-Pinto Seychelles	2:11.21

100m Breaststroke	Brett Petersen South Africa	1:02.63	Chris Stewart South Africa	1:06.01	Alan Ogden Zimbabwe	1:08.08
200m Breaststroke	Terence Parkin South Africa	2:16.29 GR	Greg Owen South Africa	2:21.14	Ayman Khattab Egypt	2:26.98

100m Butterfly	Ryan Kelly South Africa	54.66	Theo Verster South Africa	54.75	Mehdi Addadi Algeria	56.30
200m Butterfly	Theo Verster South Africa	2:04.69 GR	Raazik Nordien South Africa	2:08.75	Fares Attar Algeria	2:10.11

200m I.M.	Theo Verster South Africa	2:04.10 GR	Terence Parkin South Africa	2:07.97	Kenny Roberts Seychelles	2:11.00
400m I.M	Terence Parkin South Africa	4:35.29	Adrian Bosch South Africa	4:39.06	Kenny Roberts Seychelles	4:46.26

4 × 100 m Free Relay	South Africa Brett Rogers, Brett Petersen, Ryan Kelly, Brendon Dedekind	3:51.45	Algeria	3:54.91	Egypt	3:58.22
4 × 200 m Free Relay	South Africa Herman Louw, James Willcox, Ryno Maarkgraaf, Terence Parkin	7:41.91	Algeria	7:58.54	Seychelles Kenny Roberts, Jean-Paul Adam, Benjamin Lo-Pinto, Barnsley Albert ^[8]	8:04.98
4 × 100 m Medley Relay	South Africa	3:51.45	Algeria	3:54.91	Egypt	3:58.22

^m1 In prelims of the men's 100 free, Algeria's Salim Iles set a new Games Record (GR) of 50.36.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Rania Elwani Egypt Stacey Bowley South Africa	26.56	not awarded		Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe	26.72
100m Freestyle	Charlene Wittstock South Africa	57.46	Teresa Moodie Zimbabwe	58.04	Rania Elwani Egypt	58.12
200m Freestyle	Kim van Selm South Africa	2:05.50	Kirsten van Heerden South Africa	2:06.15	Rania Elwani Egypt	2:08.08
400m Freestyle	Kim van Selm South Africa	4:26.50	Kirsten van Heerden South Africa	4:27.04	Boutheina Elouer Tunisia	4:40.03
800m Freestyle	Kim van Selm South Africa	9:13.30	Bronwyn Dedekind South Africa	9:19.04	Maha Elmerghany Egypt	9:44.72

100m Backstroke	Charlene Wittstock South Africa	1:04.31	Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe	1:05.29	Taryn Ternent South Africa	1:05.95
200m Backstroke	Mandy Loots South Africa	2:21.22	Taryn Cokayne South Africa	2:23.27	Mandy Leach Zimbabwe	2:29.14

100m Breaststroke^w1	Penny Heyns South Africa	1:07.58 GR	Ziada Jardine South Africa	1:15.31	Lauren Harvey Zimbabwe	1:18.05
200m Breaststroke^w1	Penny Heyns South Africa	2:28.00 GR	Sarah Poewe South Africa	2:32.80	Lauren Harvey Zimbabwe	2:53.17

100m Butterfly	Mandy Loots South Africa	1:01.32 GR	Candice Crafford South Africa	1:03.64	Teresa Moodie Zimbabwe	1:05.18
200m Butterfly	Mandy Loots South Africa	2:16.02 GR	Natalie du Toit South Africa	2:19.80	Kenza Bennaceur Algeria	2:33.54

200m I.M.	Mandy Loots South Africa	2:20.02 GR	Kirsty Coventry Zimbabwe	2:23.42	Mandy Leach Zimbabwe	2:25.53
400m I.M	Mandy Loots South Africa	4:59.50 GR	Natalie du Toit South Africa	5:06.62	Kenza Bennaceur Algeria	5:29.60

4 × 100 m Free Relay^w2	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
4 × 200 m Free Relay	South Africa Kirsten van Heerden, Stacey Bowley, Bronwyn Dedekind, Kim van Selm	8:36.76	Zimbabwe	8:47.56	Egypt	9:18.40
4 × 100 m Medley Relay	South Africa Charlene Wittstock, Penny Heyns, Mandy Loots, Stacey Bowley	4:11.57 GR	Zimbabwe	4:28.96	Egypt	4:48.17

^w1 In winning the Women's 100 and 200 Breaststrokes, South Africa's Penny Heynes defended the 2 titles she won at the 1995 All-Africa Games.
^w2 Order of swimmers for the women's 4x100 Free Relay may be off, however, Moody (Zimbabwe) and Van Selm (South Africa) were the fourth swimmers for their relays.

Medal standings


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa	30	20	3	53
2	Zimbabwe	1	6	8	15
3	Algeria	1	4	5	10
4	Egypt	1	0	10	11
5	Seychelles	0	1	4	5
6	Mauritius	0	0	1	1
6	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		33	31	32	96

References

^ (1999) All Africa Games - Day 1 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-12; retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ (1999) All Africa Games - Day 2 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-13; retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ (1999) All Africa Games - Day 3 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-14; retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ (1999) All Africa Games - Day 4 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-16; retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ (1999) All Africa Games - Day 5 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-16; retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ (1999) All Africa Games - Day 6 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-18; retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ (2003) All African Games Roundup & Results by Chaker Belhadj, published by SwimNews on 2003-10-24; retrieved 2011-07-29.
^ "Ninth All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria – from July 11 to 23-Seychelles' history at the All-Africa Games". www.nation.sc. Retrieved 14 June 2017.

[1] (1999) All Africa Games - Day 1 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-12; retrieved 2011-07-29.

[2] (1999) All Africa Games - Day 2 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-13; retrieved 2011-07-29.

[3] (1999) All Africa Games - Day 3 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-14; retrieved 2011-07-29.

[4] (1999) All Africa Games - Day 4 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-16; retrieved 2011-07-29.

[5] (1999) All Africa Games - Day 5 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-16; retrieved 2011-07-29.

[day6-6] (1999) All Africa Games - Day 6 by Neville Smith for SwimNews. Published 1999-09-18; retrieved 2011-07-29.

[7] (2003) All African Games Roundup & Results by Chaker Belhadj, published by SwimNews on 2003-10-24; retrieved 2011-07-29.

[8] "Ninth All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria – from July 11 to 23-Seychelles' history at the All-Africa Games". www.nation.sc. Retrieved 14 June 2017.

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