Swimming at the 2019 African Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 2019 African Games
Venue	Mohammed V Sports Complex – Olympic Pool
Dates	24 August (heats and final)
Competitors	16 from 10 nations
Winning time	55.02
Medalists
gold medal  Abdellah Ardjoune   Algeria silver medal  Mohamed Samy   Egypt bronze medal  Martin Binedell   South Africa

The Men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 24 August 2019.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Ryan Murphy	United States	51.85	Rio de Janeiro	13 August 2016
African record	Christopher Reid	South Africa	53.12	Durban	11 April 2016
Games record	Charl Crous	South Africa	55.26	Maputo	9 September 2011

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
24 August	Final	Abdellah Ardjoune	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	55.02	GR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 24 August at 11:10.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Martin Binedell	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	56.43	Q
2	3	5	Abdellah Ardjoune	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	56.77	Q
3	1	4	Driss Lahrichi	File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	56.94	Q
4	2	4	Mohamed Samy	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	57.19	Q
5	2	5	Jason Arthur	File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana	57.61	Q
6	3	3	Abdelrahman Hegazy	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	58.49	Q
7	1	5	Mohamed Bouhamdi	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	58.65	Q
8	2	3	Adil Assouab	File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	59.01	Q
9	3	6	Xander Skinner	File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia	59.28
10	1	3	Mogammad Ra'eez Warley	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	59.61
11	1	6	Simon Bachmann	File:Flag of Seychelles.svg Seychelles	1:01.74
12	2	6	Niklas Yeboah	File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana	1:02.59
13	2	2	Ambala Atuhaire Ogola	File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda	1:02.90
14	1	2	Andisiwe Tayali	File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe	1:03.50
15	3	2	Ayman Khatoun	File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe	1:03.57
16	3	7	Jamalke Gnakobo	File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia	1:17.19

Final

The final was started on 24 August at 17:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)	5	Abdellah Ardjoune	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	55.02	GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	6	Mohamed Samy	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	55.57
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	4	Martin Binedell	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	56.20
4	3	Driss Lahrichi	File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	56.22
5	1	Mohamed Bouhamdi	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	57.12
6	2	Jason Arthur	File:Flag of Ghana.svg Ghana	57.54
7	7	Abdelrahman Hegazy	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	58.30
8	8	Adil Assouab	File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	58.46