African Swimming Championships | |
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Status | active |
Genre | sporting event |
Date(s) | mid-year |
Frequency | biennial |
Inaugurated | 1974 |
African Swimming Championships are the African championships in the sport of Swimming. It is organised by the African Swimming Confederation (CANA) and held biennially.
The most recent edition of the Championships was held in August 2022 in Tunis.
Source: [1]
Number | Year | Host City | Host Country | Dates | Nations | Swimmers | Events | 1st Medal Table | 2nd Medal Table | 3rd Medal Table |
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1 | 1974 | Cairo | ![]() | 29 September–3 October | 7 | 71 | 19 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
2 | 1977 | Tunis | ![]() | 23–27 July | 6 | 74 | 29 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
3 | 1982 | Cairo | ![]() | 16–22 October | 7 | 84 | ![]() | |||
4 | 1990 | Tunis | ![]() | 20–26 August | 8 | 96 | ||||
5 | 1998 | Nairobi | ![]() | 11–17 April | 8 | 72 | 19 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
6 | 2002 | Cairo | ![]() | 12–18 August | 12 | 131 | 12 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
7 | 2004 | Casablanca | ![]() | 1–7 May | 16 | 114 | 38 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
8 | 2006 | Dakar | ![]() | 11–16 September | 17 | 121 | 40 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
9 | 2008 | Johannesburg | ![]() | 1–7 December | 15 | 75 | 40 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
10 | 2010 | Casablanca | ![]() | 13–19 September | 21 | 200 | 40 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
11 | 2012 | Nairobi | ![]() | 10–15 September | 16 | 40 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
– | 2014 | Dakar | ![]() | Not held [2] | ||||||
12 | 2016 | Bloemfontein | ![]() | 19–23 October | 23 | 40 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
13 | 2018 | Algiers | ![]() | 10–16 September | 33 | 238 | 44 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
– | 2020 | Johannesburg | ![]() | 3–5 December | Cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic | |||||
14 | 2021 | Accra | ![]() | 11–17 October | 43 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||
15 | 2022 | Tunis | ![]() | 20–24 August | 29 | 42 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
– | 2023 | Khartoum | ![]() | 6–10 September | Not held | |||||
16 [3] | 2024 | Luanda | ![]() | 30 April–4 May |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 181 | 125 | 84 | 390 |
2 | ![]() | 60 | 82 | 83 | 225 |
3 | ![]() | 33 | 41 | 54 | 128 |
4 | ![]() | 28 | 46 | 43 | 117 |
5 | ![]() | 15 | 11 | 5 | 31 |
6 | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 13 | 20 |
7 | ![]() | 2 | 6 | 12 | 20 |
8 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
9 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
10 | ![]() | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
11 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
12 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
15 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
16 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
17 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
Totals (18 entries) | 326 | 328 | 323 | 977 |
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