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

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 2019 African Games
Venue	Mohammed V Sports Complex – Olympic Pool
Dates	21 August (heats and final)
Competitors	34 from 24 nations
Winning time	48.97
Medalists
gold medal  Oussama Sahnoune   Algeria silver medal  Ali Khalafalla   Egypt bronze medal  Mohamed Hassan   Egypt

The Men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 21 August 2019.

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	César Cielo	Brazil	46.91	Rome	30 July 2009
African record	Lyndon Ferns	South Africa	47.79	Rome	29 July 2009
Games record	Salim Iles	Algeria	49.38	Algiers	12 July 2007

The following new records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nation	Time	Record
21 August	Final	Oussama Sahnoune	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	48.97	GR

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 21 August at 10:30.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	4	Mohamed Hassan	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	50.47	Q
2	4	4	Ali Khalafalla	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	50.62	Q
3	3	5	Douglas Erasmus	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	50.65	Q
4	5	3	Xander Skinner	File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia	50.86	Q
5	5	4	Oussama Sahnoune	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	50.94	Q
6	5	5	Ryan Coetzee	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	51.37	Q
7	4	6	Mehdi Nazim Benbara	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	51.55	Q
8	3	3	Samy Boutouil	File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	51.57	Q
9	4	5	Peter Wetzlar	File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe	51.78
10	5	6	Steven Aimable	File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal	51.92
11	3	7	Phillip Adejumo	File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria	52.43
12	5	7	Ridhwan Mohamed	File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya	52.94
13	4	2	Audai Hassouna	File:Flag of Libya.svg Libya	52.96
14	3	6	El Hadj Adama Niane	File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal	53.17
15	5	2	Mathieu Marquet	File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius	53.42
16	4	7	Filipe Gomes	File:Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi	54.10
17	3	1	Daniel Francisco	File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola	54.13
18	3	2	Merwane El Merini	File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	54.19
19	4	3	Mathieu Bachmann	File:Flag of Seychelles.svg Seychelles	54.31
20	5	1	Swaleh Talib	File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya	54.35
21	5	8	Daniel Christian	File:Flag of Eritrea.svg Eritrea	54.46
22	4	1	Ambala Atuhaire Ogola	File:Flag of Uganda.svg Uganda	54.59
23	4	8	Yellow Yeiyah	File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria	54.96
24	3	8	Kitso Matija	File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana	55.60
25	2	4	Ayman Khatoun	File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe	56.23
26	2	6	Mawupemon Otogbe	File:Flag of Togo.svg Togo	56.87
27	2	3	Solomon Dzingai	File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana	57.56
28	2	5	Adama Ouedraogo	File:Flag of Burkina Faso.svg Burkina Faso	57.87
29	2	2	Albachir Mouctar	File:Flag of Niger.svg Niger	1:00.02
30	1	4	Shala Gekabel	File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia	1:03.64
31	2	7	Ebrima Buaro	File:Flag of The Gambia.svg The Gambia	1:04.48
32	1	5	Mamadou Bah	File:Flag of Guinea.svg Guinea	1:04.99
33	2	1	Houssein Gaber Ibrahim	File:Flag of Djibouti.svg Djibouti	1:05.21
34	1	3	Yordanos Belachew	File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia	1:13.26

Final

The final was started on 21 August at 17:15.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)	2	Oussama Sahnoune	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	48.97	GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	5	Ali Khalafalla	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	49.81
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	4	Mohamed Hassan	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	49.85
4	3	Douglas Erasmus	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	50.31
5	6	Xander Skinner	File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia	50.53
6	7	Ryan Coetzee	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	50.60
7	8	Samy Boutouil	File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	51.29
8	1	Mehdi Nazim Benbara	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	51.61