Swimming at the 2019 African Games – Men's 50 metre backstroke


The Men's 50 metre backstroke 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.
NameNationTimeLocationDate
World recordKliment Kolesnikov24.00Glasgow4 August 2018
African recordGerhard Zandberg24.34Rome2 August 2009
Games recordGerhard Zandberg25.68Algiers16 July 2007

The following new records were set during this competition.
DateEventNameNationTimeRecord
23 AugustFinalMohamed Samy25.26GR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 23 August at 11:25.
RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
125Abdellah Ardjoune25.88Q NR
224Driss Lahrichi25.93Q NR
334Mohamed Samy26.15Q
433Mohamed Bouhamdi26.46Q
536Merwane El Merini26.93Q
614Ali Khalafalla27.08Q
715Martin Binedell27.20Q
813Neil Fair27.22Q
923Jason Arthur27.46
1035Steven Aimable27.71
1126Niklas Yeboah28.20
1222Efrem Ghimai28.44
1316Gregory Anodin28.61
1427Simon Bachmann29.01
1512Andisiwe Tayali29.29
1617Swaleh Talib29.50
1737Ayman Khatoun29.54
1831Seydoli Alaassan30.02
1938Jamalke Gnakobo34.29
2032El Hadji Adama Niane39.48

Final

The final was started on 23 August at 17:00.
RankLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
3Mohamed Samy25.26GR
4Abdellah Ardjoune25.61NR
5Driss Lahrichi26.12
41Martin Binedell26.64
56Mohamed Bouhamdi26.67
67Ali Khalafalla26.88
72Merwane El Merini27.11
88Neil Fair27.12