Hayley Hoy delivers a historic Eswatini gold, Jemmah Roman sets a record by four hundredths, Kaylea Rogers beats Tyla Thomas a third time and Botswana's Lame Thomba wins again on Day 3 morning in Gaborone GABORONE, Botswana – 4 September 2026 – Sixteen more finals, five more golds each, and still nothing to separate them. The Day 3 morning session of the XXII Africa Aquatics Zone IV Swimming Championships, covering the 400m Freestyle and 100m Butterfly, ended with South Africa and Namibia locked together on 23 individual gold...Read More
Four more individual championship records, two relay records, a 0.04-second finish, the hosts' best session yet and a 13th nation in the water on a packed Day 2 evening in Gaborone GABORONE, Botswana – 3 September 2026 – The halfway point of the XXII Africa Aquatics Zone IV Swimming Championships arrived on Thursday evening with the two leading nations locked together. After 16 individual finals in the 200m Freestyle and 50m Butterfly and four 4x100m Freestyle Relays, South Africa and Namibia sit level on 18 individual golds ...Read More
Records for South Africa, Namibia and Seychelles across the 200m Breaststroke and 200m Backstroke; Namibia collects 15 medals in a session, and Tyla Thomas answers two difficult days with a record of her own GABORONE, Botswana – 3 September 2026 – The Day 2 morning session of the XXII Africa Aquatics Zone IV Swimming Championships will be remembered as the morning the record book was rewritten. Across sixteen 200m finals in breaststroke and backstroke, five Zone IV championship records were broken, three of them by South African ...Read More