Swimming at the 1999 All-Africa Games

Swimming at the 7th All-Africa Games was held September 12–18, 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]

Swimming at the 1999
All-Africa Games

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Participating nations

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

Algeria  Angola  Egypt  Kenya

Madagascar  Mauritius  Mozambique  Namibia

Nigeria  Senegal  Seychelles  South Africa

Swaziland  Tunisia  Zambia  Zimbabwe

Schedule

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

Date	September 12	September 13	September 14
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	September 15	September 16	September 17
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
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		33	31	32	96

References

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.
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 2017-06-14.