South Africa at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

South Africa at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships
Flag of South Africa
FINA code	RSA
National federation	Swimming South Africa
Website	swimsa.org
in Gwangju, South Korea
Competitors	64 in 5 sports
Medals Ranked 15th	Gold 1 Silver 1 Bronze 2 Total 4
World Aquatics Championships appearances
1973 1975 1978 1982 1986 1991 1994 1998 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2022 2023 2024

South Africa competed at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea from 12 to 28 July.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Zane Waddell	Swimming	Men's 50 metre backstroke	July 28
Silver	Tatjana Schoenmaker	Swimming	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	July 26
Bronze	Chad Le Clos	Swimming	Men's 200 metre butterfly	July 24
Bronze	Chad Le Clos	Swimming	Men's 100 metre butterfly	July 27

Artistic swimming

Main article: Artistic swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

South Africa has entered 12 artistic swimmers. ^[1]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Emma Manners-Wood Laura Strugnell	Duet technical routine	65.4588	42	did not advance
	Duet free routine	67.3333	40	did not advance
Faith Adonis Emma Manners-Wood Courtney Musson Nina Smith Laura Strugnell Nadine Vaarland Tayla-Jade van Huyssteen Sarah Williams Giulia Torino (R) Shannon Whyte (R)	Team free routine	67.1333	26	did not advance
Faith Adonis Emma Manners-Wood Courtney Musson Nina Smith Laura Strugnell Giulia Torino Nadine Vaarland Tayla-Jade van Huyssteen Shannon Whyte Sarah Williams Chloe Dundas-Starr (R) Sabrina Otto (R)	Free routine combination	66.7000	14	did not advance

Legend: (R) = Reserve Athlete

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

South Africa has entered two divers. ^[2]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Julia Vincent	1 m springboard	241.35	4 Q	—		236.40	12
	3 m springboard	268.30	16 Q	275.85	16	did not advance
Micaela Bouter		233.15	35	did not advance

Open water swimming

Main article: Open water swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

South Africa qualified four male and two female open water swimmers. ^{[3] [4]}

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Chad Ho	Men's 10 km	1:49:37.9	23
Danie Marais	Men's 10 km	1:50:14.2	30
Michael McGlynn	Men's 5 km	53:42.4	22
Christopher McGlynn	Men's 5 km	54:06.2	43

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Robyn Kinghorn	Women's 5 km	1:01:50.0	42
	Women's 10 km	2:03:05.1	46
Michelle Weber	Women's 5 km	59:54.6	32
	Women's 10 km	1:56:25.8	31

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Michelle Weber Robyn Kinghorn Chad Ho Danie Marais	Team	56:52.9	15

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

South Africa has entered 18 swimmers. ^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Alaric Basson	200 m breaststroke	2:13.73	32	did not advance
Ryan Coetzee	50 m butterfly	24.13	36	did not advance
	100 m butterfly	53.46	30	did not advance
Michael Houlie	50 m breaststroke	27.41	19	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:01.18	=29	did not advance
Chad le Clos	100 m freestyle	DNS		did not advance
	100 m butterfly	51.58	4 Q	51.40	4 Q	51.16
	200 m butterfly	1:56.17	5 Q	1:55.88	5 Q	1:54.15
Christopher Reid	100 m backstroke	54.12	19	did not advance
	200 m backstroke	1:58.44	20	did not advance
Ayrton Sweeney	400 m individual medley	4:20.32	19	—	did not advance
Bradley Tandy	50 m freestyle	22.24	18	did not advance
Eben Vorster	200 m freestyle	1:51.70	44	did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:05.69	39	did not advance
Zane Waddell	50 m backstroke	24.84	4 Q	24.72	5 Q	24.43
Christopher Reid Michael Houlie Chad le Clos Ryan Coetzee	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:38.18	23	—		did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kaylene Corbett	200 m breaststroke	2:24.83	3 Q	2:24.18	8 Q	2:26.62	8
Duné Coetzee	400 m freestyle	4:14.39	23	—	did not advance
	800 m freestyle	8:47.97	24	—	did not advance
	200 m butterfly	2:11.92	20	did not advance
Erin Gallagher	50 m freestyle	25.48	27	did not advance
	100 m freestyle	54.64	20	did not advance
	50 m butterfly	26.45	19	did not advance
	100 m butterfly	59.21	23	did not advance
Rebecca Meder	200 m freestyle	2:02.70	30	did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:15.96	22	did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:53.99	22	—		did not advance
Tatjana Schoenmaker	50 m breaststroke	31.40	17	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:06.76	4 Q	1:06.61	5 Q	1:06.60	6
	200 m breaststroke	2:24.66	2 Q	2:21.79 AF	2 Q	2:22.52
Nathania van Niekerk	200 m backstroke	2:13.37	26	did not advance
Mariella Venter	100 m backstroke	1:02.95	39	did not advance
Erin Gallagher Tayla Lovemore Emma Chelius Rebecca Meder	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:43.35 AF	18	—		did not advance
Mariella Venter Tatjana Schoenmaker Tayla Lovemore Emma Chelius	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:05.12	17	—		did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christopher Reid Ryan Coetzee Emma Chelius Tayla Lovemore	4 × 100 m mixed freestyle relay	3:32.89	17	did not advance
Christopher Reid Tatjana Schoenmaker Ryan Coetzee Erin Gallagher	4 × 100 m mixed medley relay	3:49.90 AF	15	did not advance

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team roster ^[6]

• Madi Lwazi
• Etienne Le Roux (C)
• Timothy Rezelman
• Nardus Badenhorst
• Ethan Coryndon-Baker
• Sven van Zyl
• Jason Evezard
• Nicholas Rodda
• Dylan Cronje
• Mark Spencer
• Liam Neill
• Donn Stewart
• Keegan Clark
• Coach: Paul Martin

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	3	3	0	0	60	20	+40	6	Quarterfinals
2	Spain	3	2	0	1	57	19	+38	4	Playoffs
3	South Africa	3	0	1	2	16	54	−38	1
4	New Zealand	3	0	1	2	15	55	−40	1

Source: Sportresult ^{[ dead link ]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

15 July 2019 16:30	Report [ dead link ]	South Africa	3–23	Spain	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: John Waldow (NZL), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 1–6, 1–5, 1–4, 0–8
		Rodda 2	Goals	Mallarach 5

---

17 July 2019 12:30	Report [ dead link ]	South Africa	8–8	New Zealand	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Stanko Ivanovski (MNE)
		Score by quarters:2–0, 2–2, 2–4, 2–2
		three players 2	Goals	Small 2

---

19 July 2019 08:30	Report [ dead link ]	South Africa	5–23	Hungary	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Michael Goldenberg (USA), An Jin-yong (KOR)
		Score by quarters: 1–5, 2–5, 0–8, 2–5
		Badenhorst 2	Goals	Zalánki 5

Playoffs

21 July 2019 18:30	Report [ dead link ]	South Africa	5–25	Germany	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Jaume Teixidó (ESP), Juan Menéndez (CUB)
		Score by quarters: 2–5, 0–6, 1–9, 2–5
		five players 1	Goals	Gielen 6

9th–12th place semifinals

23 July 2019 12:30	Report [ dead link ]	United States	20–3	South Africa	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Jeremy Cheng (SGP), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
		Score by quarters:5–0, 8–1, 5–2, 2–0
		three players 4	Goals	three players 1

11th place game

25 July 2019 09:30	Report [ dead link ]	Japan	15–5	South Africa	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Viktor Salnichenko (KAZ), Juan Menéndez (CUB)
		Score by quarters:5–1, 4–1, 3–2, 3–1
		Shimizu, Inaba 3	Goals	Evezard 2

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team roster ^[7]

• Lauren Nixon
• Yanah Gerber
• Nthatisi Mota
• Emma Joubert
• Georgia Moir
• Amica Hallendorff (C)
• Lucy Miszewski
• Kate Hinrichs
• Jordan Wedderburn
• Nicola Macleod
• Chloe Meecham
• Christine Abrahamse
• Zanne Smit
• Coach: Pierre le Roux

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	60	13	+47	6	Quarterfinals
2	Netherlands	3	2	0	1	57	18	+39	4	Playoffs
3	New Zealand	3	1	0	2	26	41	−15	2
4	South Africa	3	0	0	3	5	76	−71	0

Source: Sportresult ^{[ dead link ]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

14 July 2019 08:30	Report [ dead link ]	South Africa	0–33	Netherlands	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Viktor Salnichenko (KAZ), Ni Shi Wei (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 0–7, 0–10, 0–9, 0–7
			Goals	Van de Kraats 7

---

16 July 2019 20:30	Report [ dead link ]	South Africa	4–17	New Zealand	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Alessandro Severo (ITA), Daniel Flahive (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 0–6, 0–2, 2–6, 2–3
		Hallendorff 2	Goals	Doyle, McDowall 4

---

18 July 2019 16:30	Report [ dead link ]	South Africa	1–26	United States	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Alessandro Severo (ITA), An Jin-yong (KOR)
		Score by quarters: 0–7, 1–8, 0–6, 0–5
		Meecham 1	Goals	Musselman 5

13th–16th place semifinals

20 July 2019 10:30	Report [ dead link ]	South Africa	26–3	South Korea	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: Arkadiy Voevodin (RUS), Kunihiro Sato (JPN)
		Score by quarters:7–1, 4–0, 7–1, 8–1
		three players 4	Goals	three players 1

13th place game

22 July 2019 09:30	Report [ dead link ]	South Africa	2–21	Japan	Nambu University Aquatics Center, Gwangju Referees: John Waldow (NZL), Ni Shi Wei (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 0–4, 1–4, 1–6, 0–7
		Moir, Hallendorff 1	Goals	Arima 5

References

1. "Entry List by Nation (Artistic swimming)" (PDF). www.omegatiming.com. 10 July 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
2. "Diving Entry List by NAT (Diving)" (PDF). www.omegatiming.com. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
3. "18th FINA World Championships Open water swimming – Men's entry list by nationality" (pdf). Omega Timing. 11 July 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
4. "18th FINA World Championships Open water swimming – Women's entry list by nationality" (pdf). Omega Timing. 11 July 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
5. "Swimming Entry List" (PDF). www.omegatiming.com. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
6. "Men's Water Polo Team Roster South Africa" (PDF). waterpolo.sportresult.com. Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 July 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
7. "Women's Water Polo Team Roster South Africa" (PDF). waterpolo.sportresult.com. Omega Timing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2019.