Swimming at the 2019 African Games – Men's 800 metre freestyle

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Men's 800 metre freestyle
at the 2019 African Games
VenueMohammed V Sports Complex – Olympic Pool
Dates21 August
Competitors10 from 7 nations
Winning time7:57.21
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt
  2015
2023  

The Men's 800 metre freestyle competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 21 August 2019. [1]

2019 African Games International multi-sport event between African nations

The 12th African Games was held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. This was the first time that the African Games were hosted by Morocco following the country's readmission to the African Union in January 2017.

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Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

NameNationTimeLocationDate
World record Zhang Lin Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 7:32.12 Rome 29 July 2009
African record Oussama Mellouli Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 7:35.27 Rome 29 July 2009
Games record Ahmed Akram Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 7:55.36 Brazzaville 7 September 2015

Results

RankHeatLaneNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg25 Ahmed Akram Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 7:57.21
Silver medal icon.svg23 Mohamed Agili Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 7:57.87
Bronze medal icon.svg24 Marwan Elkamash Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 8:06.90
427 Mohamed Djaballah Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 8:08.88 NR
526 Brent Szurdoki Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 8:12.87
622 Michael McGlynn Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 8:27.52
721 Damien Otogbe Flag of Togo.svg  Togo 9:20.11
814 João Duarte Flag of Angola.svg  Angola 9:22.57
915 Solomon Beraki Flag of Eritrea.svg  Eritrea 12:11.63
1013 Nejim Tesfay Flag of Eritrea.svg  Eritrea 13:20.33

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References

  1. "2019 African Games Swimming Full Results" (PDF). Royal Moroccan Swimming Federation. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.