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
Oussama Sahnoune    Algeria   Ali Khalafalla    Egypt   Mohamed Hassan    Egypt

Swimming at the 2019 African Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m		women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×100 m	mixed
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×100 m	mixed

The Men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 21 August 2019.^[1]

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	Algeria	48.97	GR

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

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

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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Oussama Sahnoune	Algeria	48.97	GR
	5	Ali Khalafalla	Egypt	49.81
	4	Mohamed Hassan	Egypt	49.85
4	3	Douglas Erasmus	South Africa	50.31
5	6	Xander Skinner	Namibia	50.53
6	7	Ryan Coetzee	South Africa	50.60
7	8	Samy Boutouil	Morocco	51.29
8	1	Mehdi Nazim Benbara	Algeria	51.61