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

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the 2019 African Games
Venue	Mohammed V Sports Complex – Olympic Pool
Dates	24 August (heats and final)
Competitors	17 from 11 nations
Winning time	1:02.42
Medalists
gold medal  Felicity Passon   Seychelles silver medal  Naomi Ruele   Botswana bronze medal  Kerryn Herbst   South Africa

The Women'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	Regan Smith	United States	57.57	Gwangju	28 July 2019
African record	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	58.77	Beijing	11 August 2008
Games record	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	1:00.86	Maputo	7 September 2011

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 24 August at 11:00.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	4	Felicity Passon	File:Flag of Seychelles.svg Seychelles	1:03.22	Q
2	1	4	Kerryn Herbst	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	1:04.60	Q
3	3	4	Naomi Ruele	File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana	1:05.29	Q
4	2	5	Rola Hussein	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	1:06.12	Q
5	3	5	Robyn Lee	File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe	1:06.95	Q
6	1	5	Hiba Fahsi	File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	1:07.15	Q
7	3	3	Sara El Tahawi	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	1:07.21	Q
8	3	2	Sylvia Brunlehner	File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya	1:07.31	Q, WD
9	2	3	Camille Koenig	File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius	1:07.34	Q
10	3	6	Lewethu Mbatha	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	1:07.83	R
11	2	6	Catarina Sousa	File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola	1:08.02
12	1	3	Logaine Abdelatif	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	1:08.26
13	1	6	Yasmine Dgaimesh	File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	1:09.85
14	2	2	Imara-Bella Thorpe	File:Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya	1:11.67
15	1	2	Timipame-ere Akiayefa	File:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria	1:14.44
16	3	7	Khema Elizabeth	File:Flag of Seychelles.svg Seychelles	1:20.58
	2	7	Genet Demissia	File:Flag of Ethiopia.svg Ethiopia	Disqualified

Final

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)	4	Felicity Passon	File:Flag of Seychelles.svg Seychelles	1:02.42
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	3	Naomi Ruele	File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana	1:02.62
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	5	Kerryn Herbst	File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa	1:03.76
4	6	Rola Hussein	File:Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt	1:05.29
5	2	Robyn Lee	File:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe	1:05.50
6	8	Camille Koenig	File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius	1:07.29
7	1	Sara El Tahawi	File:Flag of Algeria.svg Algeria	1:07.37
8	7	Hiba Fahsi	File:Flag of Morocco.svg Morocco	1:07.40