Swimming at the 2015 African Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle

Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 2015 African Games
Venue	Kintele Aquatic Complex
Date	September 6, 2015 (2015-09-06)
Competitors	18 from 12 nations
Winning time	1:47.77
Medalists
gold medal  Devon Brown   File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa silver medal  Marwan Elkamash   File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt bronze medal  Ahmed Mathlouthi   File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia

Main article: Swimming at the 2015 African Games

The Men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2015 African Games took place on 6 September 2015 at Kintele Aquatic Complex.

Schedule

All times are Congo Standard Time (UTC+01:00)

Date	Time	Event
Sunday, 6 September 2015	10:12	Heat 1
	10:16	Heat 2
	10:20	Heat 3
	17:25	Final

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Paul Biedermann	Germany	1:42.00	Rome	28 July 2009
African record	Jean Basson	South Africa	1:45.67	Rome	28 July 2009
Games record	Ahmed Mathlouthi	Tunisia	1:48.95	Maputo	5 September 2011

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
6 September	Final	Devon Brown	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	1:47.77	GR

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 6 September.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	4	Calvyn Justus	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	1:50.77	Q
2	3	4	Devon Brown	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	1:50.92	Q
3	3	5	Marwan El-Amrawy	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	1:51.83	Q
4	2	4	Marwan Elkamash	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	1:51.91	Q
5	1	5	Mohamed Lagili	File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia	1:52.56	Q
6	2	3	Ahmed Mathlouthi	File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia	1:52.64	Q
7	2	3	Sean Gunn	File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe	1:54.41	Q
8	3	6	Igor Mogne	File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique	1:54.60	Q
9	2	6	Mathieu Marquet	File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius	1:56.33
10	3	3	Lies Nefsi	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	1:57.06
11	1	3	Imad Tchouar	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	1:59.40
12	1	6	Ismael Kane	File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal	2:00.61
13	3	2	Jörn Diekmann	File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia	2:01.77
14	2	2	Andre van der Merwe	File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana	2:05.00
15	3	7	Michael Botha	File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana	2:14.97
16	2	7	Emmanuel Ndonga	File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya	2:21.34
17	1	2	Ahllan Bique	File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique	2:27.91
18	1	7	Oumar Kaba	File:Flag of Guinea.svg Guinea	2:45.39

Final

The final were held on 6 September.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)	5	Devon Brown	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	1:47.77	GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	6	Marwan Elkamash	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	1:48.58
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	7	Ahmed Mathlouthi	File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia	1:49.29
4	4	Calvyn Justus	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	1:49.58
5	2	Mohamed Lagili	File:Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia	1:50.21
6	3	Marwan El-Amrawy	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	1:53.15
7	8	Igor Mogne	File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique	1:53.77
8	1	Sean Gunn	File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe	1:54.15

External links

• Official website