An analytical review of the XXII Africa Aquatics Zone IV Swimming Championships 2026 GABORONE, Botswana – September 2026 – Namibia went home as Zone IV champions, South Africa as the nation with the most gold medals, and Botswana as hosts who finished third on points with more individual medals than anyone bar the top two. Those three facts are consistent with each other, and the reason they are consistent is the most useful thing the week in Gaborone has to teach. This piece works through the full dataset of the championships, 1...Read More
Six sessions level, one session to settle it: South Africa win 13 of 32 finals on Day 4, Namibia sweep the senior sprints and both relay records, Botswana post their biggest medal haul of the week and Lesotho's four swimmers all finish GABORONE, Botswana – 5 September 2026 – For six sessions the XXII Africa Aquatics Zone IV Swimming Championships had refused to choose between South Africa and Namibia. On Saturday, across 32 individual finals and six relays in the longest session of the week, it finally did. South Africa won 1...Read More
Six sessions level, one session to settle it: South Africa win 13 of 32 finals on Day 4, Namibia sweep the senior sprints and both relay records, Botswana post their biggest medal haul of the week and Lesotho's four swimmers all finish GABORONE, Botswana – 5 September 2026 – For six sessions the XXII Africa Aquatics Zone IV Swimming Championships had refused to choose between South Africa and Namibia. On Saturday, across 32 individual finals and six relays in the longest session of the week, lengthened further by two events c...Read More