The Men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the 2019 African Games was held on 21 August 2019.
Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Name Nation Time Location DateWorld recordCésar Cielo46.91Rome30 July 2009African recordLyndon Ferns47.79Rome29 July 2009Games recordSalim Iles49.38Algiers12 July 2007
The following new records were set during this competition. Date Event Name Nation Time Record 21 August Final Oussama Sahnoune 48.97 GR
Results Heats The heats were started on 21 August at 10:30.
Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 4 Mohamed Hassan50.47 Q 2 4 4 Ali Khalafalla50.62 Q 3 3 5 Douglas Erasmus50.65 Q 4 5 3 Xander Skinner50.86 Q 5 5 4 Oussama Sahnoune50.94 Q 6 5 5 Ryan Coetzee51.37 Q 7 4 6 Mehdi Nazim Benbara51.55 Q 8 3 3 Samy Boutouil51.57 Q 9 4 5 Peter Wetzlar51.78 10 5 6 Steven Aimable51.92 11 3 7 Phillip Adejumo52.43 12 5 7 Ridhwan Mohamed52.94 13 4 2 Audai Hassouna52.96 14 3 6 El Hadj Adama Niane53.17 15 5 2 Mathieu Marquet53.42 16 4 7 Filipe Gomes54.10 17 3 1 Daniel Francisco54.13 18 3 2 Merwane El Merini54.19 19 4 3 Mathieu Bachmann54.31 20 5 1 Swaleh Talib54.35 21 5 8 Daniel Christian54.46 22 4 1 Ambala Atuhaire Ogola54.59 23 4 8 Yellow Yeiyah54.96 24 3 8 Kitso Matija55.60 25 2 4 Ayman Khatoun56.23 26 2 6 Mawupemon Otogbe56.87 27 2 3 Solomon Dzingai57.56 28 2 5 Adama Ouedraogo57.87 29 2 2 Albachir Mouctar 30 1 4 Shala Gekabel 31 2 7 Ebrima Buaro 32 1 5 Mamadou Bah 33 2 1 Houssein Gaber Ibrahim 34 1 3 Yordanos Belachew
Final
The final was started on 21 August at 17:15.
Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 2 Oussama Sahnoune 48.97 GR 5 Ali Khalafalla 49.81 4 Mohamed Hassan 49.85 4 3 Douglas Erasmus 50.31 5 6 Xander Skinner 50.53 6 7 Ryan Coetzee 50.60 7 8 Samy Boutouil 51.29 8 1 Mehdi Nazim Benbara 51.61
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