Swimming at the 2019 African Games – Men's 50 metre butterfly

Men's 50 metre butterfly at the 2019 African Games
Venue	Mohammed V Sports Complex – Olympic Pool
Dates	22 August (heats and final)
Competitors	34 from 14 nations
Winning time	23.81
Medalists
Abdelrahman Elaraby    Egypt   Ali Khalafalla    Egypt   Ryan Coetzee    South Africa
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Swimming at the 2019 African Games
Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	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
v t e

The Men's 50 metre butterfly competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 22 August 2019. ^[1]

Records

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

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Andriy Govorov	Ukraine	22.27	Rome	1 July 2018
African record	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	22.90	Rome	26 July 2009
Games record	Chad le Clos	South Africa	23.51	Brazzaville	8 September 2015

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 22 August at 10:55.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Abdelrahman Elaraby	Egypt	24.03	Q
2	5	5	Yusuf Tibazi	Morocco	24.22	Q
3	3	4	Ali Khalafalla	Egypt	24.25	Q
4	4	5	Douglas Erasmus	South Africa	24.26	Q
5	5	4	Ryan Coetzee	South Africa	24.54	Q
6	3	5	Abeiku Jackson	Ghana	24.62	Q
7	4	3	Ralph Goveia	Zambia	24.79	Q
8	5	3	Peter Wetzlar	Zimbabwe	24.87	Q, NR
9	3	6	Phillip Adejumo	Nigeria	25.13
10	5	2	Yellow Yeiyah	Nigeria	25.24
11	5	7	Issa Mohamed	Kenya	25.31
12	5	6	Steven Aimable	Senegal	25.33	NR
13	4	6	Niklas Yeboah	Ghana	25.41
14	4	2	Daniel Francisco	Angola	25.52
15	3	3	Souhail Hamouchane	Morocco	25.58
16	4	7	El Hadji Adama Niane	Senegal	25.63
17	3	2	Mathieu Bachmann	Seychelles	25.99
18	5	8	Xander Skinner	Namibia	26.10
19	3	7	Efrem Ghimai	Eritrea	26.22
20	3	1	Ridhwan Mohamed	Kenya	26.53
20	4	1	Filipe Gomes	Malawi	26.53
22	4	8	Andisiwe Tayali	Zimbabwe	26.83
23	3	8	Simon Bachmann	Seychelles	26.98
24	5	1	Adama Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso	27.17
25	2	4	Belly-Crésus Ganira	Burundi	27.24
26	2	2	Kumaren Naidu	Zambia	27.75
27	2	3	Kitso Matija	Botswana	27.77
28	2	6	Ousmane Touré	Mali	27.88
29	2	5	Billy-Scott Irakose	Burundi	28.27
30	2	7	Albachir Mouctar	Niger	28.55
31	1	5	Shala Gekabel	Ethiopia	28.57
32	1	3	Dienov Andres Koka	Republic of the Congo	29.50
33	2	1	Julius Wyse	Sierra Leone	30.01
34	1	4	Eméric Kpegba	Togo	32.33

Final

The final was started on 22 August at 17:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Abdelrahman Elaraby	Egypt	23.81
	3	Ali Khalafalla	Egypt	23.88
	2	Ryan Coetzee	South Africa	24.04
4	6	Douglas Erasmus	South Africa	24.05
5	5	Yusuf Tibazi	Morocco	24.15
6	8	Peter Wetzlar	Zimbabwe	24.46	NR
7	7	Abeiku Jackson	Ghana	24.50
8	1	Ralph Goveia	Zambia	24.90

References

1. "2019 African Games Swimming Results All Day" (PDF). Royal Moroccan Swimming Federation. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2019.