Swimming at the 2019 African Games – Men's 100 metre butterfly
The Men's 100 metre butterfly competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 23 August 2019.Records
Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.
Results
Heats
The heats were started on 23 August at 10:45.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 3 | Jaouad Syoud | | 54.39 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Phillip Adejumo | | 54.56 | Q NR |
| 3 | 4 | 6 | Alard Basson | | 54.57 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Mohamed Samy | | 54.57 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | 4 | Ryan Coetzee | | 54.77 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 5 | Steven Aimable | | 54.96 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 3 | Ralph Goveia | | 55.10 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 5 | Yusuf Tibazi | | 55.14 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 3 | Abeiku Jackson | | 55.20 | |
| 10 | 3 | 5 | Khaled Morad | | 55.25 | |
| 11 | 2 | 6 | Samy Boutouil | | 55.84 | |
| 12 | 4 | 2 | Peter Wetzlar | | 55.88 | |
| 13 | 3 | 6 | Igor Mogne | | 56.68 | |
| 14 | 3 | 2 | Mathieu Bachmann | | 57.34 | |
| 15 | 4 | 7 | Niklas Yeboah | | 57.36 | |
| 16 | 3 | 1 | Daniel Francisco | | 58.55 | |
| 17 | 3 | 7 | Simon Bachmann | | 58.57 | |
| 18 | 4 | 1 | Ridhwan Mohamed | | 58.73 | |
| 19 | 4 | 4 | Andisiwe Tayali | | 58.91 | |
| 20 | 3 | 8 | Maaher Harunani | | 58.96 | |
| 20 | 2 | 1 | Xander Skinner | | 59.09 | |
| 22 | 1 | 4 | Adrian Robinson | | 59.12 | |
| 23 | 1 | 3 | Atuhaire Ambala | | 59.16 | NR |
| 24 | 2 | 7 | Daniel Christian | | 59.99 | |
| 25 | 4 | 8 | Belly-Crésus Ganira | | | |
| 26 | 2 | 8 | Ousmane Toure | | | |
| 27 | 1 | 5 | Billy-Scott Irakose | | | |
| 28 | 1 | 6 | Ethan Fischer | | | |
| 29 | 1 | 2 | Shala Gekabel | | | |
Final
The final was started on 23 August at 17:00.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 2 | Ryan Coetzee | | 53.70 | |
| 3 | Alard Basson | | 53.88 | |
| 8 | Yusuf Tibazi | | 53.89 | NR |
| 4 | 4 | Jaouad Syoud | | 53.95 | |
| 5 | 5 | Phillip Adejumo | | 54.20 | NR |
| 6 | 6 | Mohamed Samy | | 54.50 | |
| 7 | 7 | Steven Aimable | | 55.03 | |
| 8 | 1 | Ralph Goveia | | 55.50 | |
