Swimming at the 2015 African Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle
at the 2015 African Games
Men's 100 metre freestyle ; at the 2015 African Games
Venue	Kintele Aquatic Complex
Date	September 8, 2015
Competitors	35 from 21 nations
Winning time	49.93
Medalists
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The Men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2015 African Games took place on 8 September 2015 at Kintele Aquatic Complex.

Schedule

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

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	14 July 2007

The heats were held on 8 September.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	5	Caydon Muller	South Africa	49.93	Q
2	5	4	Clayton Jimmie	South Africa	50.29	Q
3	4	4	Mohamed Samy	Egypt	50.81	Q
4	3	4	Bradley Vincent	Mauritius	51.07	Q
5	3	5	Nazim Belkhodja	Algeria	51.45	Q
6	3	3	Sean Gunn	Zimbabwe	51.62	Q
7	5	5	Adham Abdelmegid	Egypt	51.64	Q
8	5	6	Mohamed Lagili	Tunisia	51.91	Q
9	4	6	Mathieu Marquet	Mauritius	52.07
10	4	3	Mohamed Ali Chaouachi	Tunisia	52.14
11	5	2	Abdoul Niane	Senegal	52.76
12	5	3	Badis Djendouci	Algeria	53.02
13	3	6	Peter Wetzlar	Zimbabwe	53.30
14	4	1	Samson Opuakpo	Nigeria	54.23
15	5	7	Andre van der Merwe	Botswana	55.12
16	3	7	Edward Ilako	Kenya	55.35
17	4	7	Denilson da Costa	Mozambique	55.44
18	5	8	Kwesi Abbiw Jackson	Ghana	55.69
19	5	1	Adama Thiaw Ndir	Senegal	55.75
20	4	8	Jörn Diekmann	Namibia	56.31
21	1	3	Hilal Hemed Hilal	Tanzania	56.46
22	3	1	Emidio Cuna	Mozambique	56.61
23	2	5	Emile Bakale	Republic of the Congo	58.33
24	2	4	Mamadou Soumaré	Mali	58.41
25	1	5	Ammaar Ghadiyali	Tanzania	58.50
26	3	8	Michael Botha	Botswana	58.67
27	2	3	Dawit Mengistu	Ethiopia	1:01.36
28	2	6	Yousif Bashir Ibrahim	Sudan	1:05.70
29	2	1	Oumar Kaba	Guinea	1:08.79
30	2	2	Anauskajynior Ndinga	Republic of the Congo	1:09.11
31	2	8	Mubikayi Sokomai	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1:09.19
			Richard Asante Yeboah	Ghana	Disqualified
			Gamba Banga	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Disqualified
			Thibaut Amani Danho	Ivory Coast	Did not start
			Issa Abdellah	Kenya	Did not start

The final were held on 8 September.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	5	Clayton Jimmie	South Africa	49.93
	3	Mohamed Samy	Egypt	49.97
	4	Caydon Muller	South Africa	50.28
4	6	Bradley Vincent	Mauritius	50.39
5	7	Sean Gunn	Zimbabwe	51.14
6	2	Nazim Belkhodja	Algeria	51.23
7	1	Adham Abdelmegid	Egypt	51.63
8	8	Mohamed Lagili	Tunisia	52.12

^ "Men's 100m Freestyle Heats Results" (PDF). brazzaville2015.microplustiming.com. 11 September 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
^ "Men's 100m Freestyle Final Results". brazzaville2015.microplustiming.com. 8 September 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2020.