A lot to learn Africa was represented by a South African team playing in Group A. They have lost against Serbia 3/21, Croatia 2/25 and USA 6/15. In the quarter finals and ranking matches, the African representatives were beaten respectively by Germany 24/5 , once more by Croatia 16/3, and Japan 21/9. The brave South African players finally finished 8th behind the winner of the competition Hungary, Australia, Serbia, Germany, Croatia, USA and Japan. In comparison, in the previous edition of 2014, held in Almaty (Kazakhstan), the South African ... Read More

Hana Heykel (EGY) and Leila Ali (EGY) the most representative of the continent As in Kazan in 2016, the Egyptian swimmers have maintained their continental supremacy in the solo and duet events. However African participation in this competition is still limited to the swimmers of the Nile and those of Pretoria. In free solo, Leila Ali (EGY) finished 21st with a score of 72.700 ahead of competitors from Serbia, Australia, Turkey, Uruguay, Lithuania, Porto Rico, Hong Kong and Singapore. The South African Guilia Torino finished 31st with 60.600... Read More

Chad Le Clos was revealed to the world It was in October 1995 that Juan Antonio Samaranch, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), received a delegation from the city of Moscow at the headquarters of the Olympic Committee in Lausanne. The aim of the visit of the Muscovite’s delegation was to present to the IOC President the project of organizing an Olympic Games for the young athletes. Without hesitation, Juan Antonio Samaranch approves the project and confirms its support and that of the IOC for the organization of t... Read More

North Africa domination In the absence of the South African swimmers, the redistribution of medals has allowed 13 countries out of the 31 participating to be on the podiums. The countries from North Africa dominated by winning 30 titles out of the 33. Egypt won 28 medals includ-ing 13 gold, ahead of Tunisia who won 24 medals of which 7 gold. Algeria finished 3rd ahead of Moroc-co having won more bronze medals. 24 champion-ships records (16 Men and 8 Women) have been broken by swimmers from 8 different countries (EGY 7,TUN 5, ALG 4, MAR 3, K... Read More

Schoenmaker, Gallagher and Lovemore the most remarkable The 2018 season was marked by the fall of 2 oldest long course African records held since 1999 by double Olympic Champion, Penny Heyns (RSA) on 50m breaststroke (30.83) and 100m breaststroke (1.06.52). These records were broken in Sydney during the Pan Pacific Championships. Tatjana Schoenmaker (RSA), who turned 21 on the 9th July 2108, became the new queen of African breaststroke.  She has taken full advantage of her participation in a highly competitive Commonwealth Games hel... Read More