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
Botswana wins its first gold medals, South Africa and Namibia trade blows across 16 individual finals and four relays, and every one of the twelve delegations leaves the pool with a medal GABORONE, Botswana – 2 September 2026 – The evening session of Day 1 at the XXII Africa Aquatics Zone IV Swimming Championships delivered what the morning's distance finals had only hinted at: a championships with genuine breadth. Across 232 individual swims in the 50m Breaststroke and 100m Backstroke, four 4x100m Medley Relays and a Masters...Read More