Swimming at the 2019 African Games – Women's 200 metre backstroke

Women's 200 metre backstroke
at the 2019 African Games

Venue

Mohammed V Sports Complex – Olympic Pool

Dates

21 August (final)

Competitors

8 from 7 nations

Winning time

2:14.55

Medalists

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Swimming at the 2019 African Games

Freestyle
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
Backstroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
50 m	men	women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×100 m	mixed
4×200 m	men	women
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×100 m	mixed
v t e

The Women's 200 metre backstroke 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	Date
World record	Regan Smith	United States	2:03.35	Gwangju	26 July 2019
African record	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:04.81	Rome	1 August 2009
Games record	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	2:10.66	Algiers	17 July 2007

The final was started on 21 August at 17:00.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Felicity Passon	Seychelles	2:14.55	NR
	3	Samantha Randle	South Africa	2:15.50
	5	Robyn Lee	Zimbabwe	2:22.50
4	2	Logaine Abdelatif	Egypt	2:22.64
5	7	Sara El Tahawi	Algeria	2:24.43
6	6	Camille Koenig	Mauritius	2:26.80
7	1	Lewethu Mbatha	South Africa	2:32.15
	7	Yasmine Dgaimesh	Morocco	Disqualified