The Men's 50 metre backstroke competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 23 August 2019.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordKliment Kolesnikov24.00Glasgow4 August 2018African recordGerhard Zandberg24.34Rome2 August 2009Games recordGerhard Zandberg25.68Algiers16 July 2007
The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nation Time Record 23 August Final Mohamed Samy 25.26 GR
Results Heats The heats were started on 23 August at 11:25.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 5 Abdellah Ardjoune25.88 Q NR 2 2 4 Driss Lahrichi25.93 Q =NR 3 3 4 Mohamed Samy26.15 Q 4 3 3 Mohamed Bouhamdi26.46 Q 5 3 6 Merwane El Merini26.93 Q 6 1 4 Ali Khalafalla27.08 Q 7 1 5 Martin Binedell27.20 Q 8 1 3 Neil Fair27.22 Q 9 2 3 Jason Arthur27.46 10 3 5 Steven Aimable27.71 11 2 6 Niklas Yeboah28.20 12 2 2 Efrem Ghimai28.44 13 1 6 Gregory Anodin28.61 14 2 7 Simon Bachmann29.01 15 1 2 Andisiwe Tayali29.29 16 1 7 Swaleh Talib29.50 17 3 7 Ayman Khatoun29.54 18 3 1 Seydoli Alaassan30.02 19 3 8 Jamalke Gnakobo34.29 20 3 2 El Hadji Adama Niane39.48
Final
The final was started on 23 August at 17:00.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Mohamed Samy 25.26 GR 4 Abdellah Ardjoune 25.61 NR 5 Driss Lahrichi 26.12 4 1 Martin Binedell 26.64 5 6 Mohamed Bouhamdi 26.67 6 7 Ali Khalafalla 26.88 7 2 Merwane El Merini 27.11 8 8 Neil Fair 27.12
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