Swimming at the 8th All-Africa Games was held October 5–11, 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria. 117 swimmers from 21 nations swam in the meet.^[1] Competition was held in a 50-meter (long course) pool.

The 2003 edition saw the addition to the Games program of the 50s of the strokes (Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly), the Men's 800 Freestyle and the Women's 1500 Freestyle, bringing the total number of events to 40.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Salim Iles   Algeria	22.71	Stephan Ackerman   South Africa	23.66	Kurt Muller   South Africa	23.83
100m Freestyle	Salim Iles   Algeria	50.32	Stephan Ackerman   South Africa	51.54	Haitham Hazem   Egypt	52.26
200m Freestyle	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	1:52.94	Stephan Ackerman   South Africa	1:54.17	Nic Wilson   South Africa	1:54.82
400m Freestyle	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	4:00.43	Anouar Ben Naceur   Tunisia	4:06.51	Mahrez Mebarek   Algeria	4:07.59
800m Freestyle	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	8:12.26	Omar El Gamal   Egypt	8:33.49	Khaled Hanafy   Egypt	8:36.78
1500m Freestyle	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	15:35.97	Omar El Gamal   Egypt	16:21.49	Khaled Hanafy   Egypt	16:40.61
50m Backstroke	Ahmed Hussein   Egypt	25.89	Simon Thirsk   South Africa	27.04	Haitham Hazem   Egypt	27.30
100m Backstroke	Ahmed Hussein   Egypt	55.75	Simon Thirsk   South Africa	57.60	Haitham Hazem   Egypt	58.46
200m Backstroke	Ahmed Hussein   Egypt	2:02.46	Jeff Norton   South Africa	2:07.42	Simon Thirsk   South Africa	2:09.79
50m Breaststroke	Kurt Muller   South Africa	28.75	Sofiane Daid   Algeria	29.10	Malick Fall   Senegal	29.28
100m Breaststroke	Kurt Muller   South Africa	1:02.99	Sofiane Daid   Algeria	1:04.05	Ayman Khattab   Egypt	1:04.10
200m Breaststroke	Neil Versfeld   South Africa	2:16.86	Ayman Khattab   Egypt	2:18.49	Malick Fall   Senegal	2:20.33
50m Butterfly	Stephan Ackerman   South Africa	24.79	Haitham Hazem   Egypt	24.84	Kurt Muller   South Africa	25.21
100m Butterfly	Haitham Hazem   Egypt	54.81	Stephan Ackerman   South Africa	54.95	Ahmed Salah   Egypt	55.25
200m Butterfly	Ahmed Salah   Egypt	2:02.91	Ahmed El Abbadi   Egypt	2:03.99	Anouar Ben Naceur   Tunisia	2:05.15
200m I.M.	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	2:06.91	Malick Fall   Senegal	2:09.08	Neil Versfeld   South Africa	2:09.91
400m I.M	Oussama Mellouli   Tunisia	4:29.68	Neil Versfeld   South Africa	4:39.37	Omar El Gamal   Egypt	4:46.08
4 × 100 m   Free Relay	Algeria	3:27.05	South Africa	3:29.63	Egypt	3:55.25
4 × 200 m   Free Relay	South Africa	7:42.45	Algeria	7:45.22	Egypt	7:50.91
4 × 100 m   Medley Relay	Egypt	3:46.67	South Africa	3:47.92	Algeria	3:55.25

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50m Freestyle	Lauren Roets   South Africa	26.31	Ngozi Monu   Nigeria	27.71	Nadia Chahed   Tunisia	28.16
100m Freestyle	Lauren Roets   South Africa	56.79	Christin Zwiegers   South Africa	57.90	Salma Zeinhoum   Egypt	58.53
200m Freestyle	Lauren Roets   South Africa	2:06.27	Kirsten van Heerden   South Africa	2:08.84	Khadua Ciss   Senegal	2:09.00
400m Freestyle	Kirsten van Heerden   South Africa	4:28.19	Heba Selim   Egypt	4:29.13	Shrone Austin   Seychelles	4:30.84
800m Freestyle	Natalie du Toit   South Africa	9:09.66	Shrone Austin   Seychelles	9:13.03	Heba Selim   Egypt	9:17.15
1500m Freestyle	Velia van Rensburg   South Africa	17:24.64	Shrone Austin   Seychelles	17:30.27	Heba Selim   Egypt	17:35.23
50m Backstroke	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	30.10	Romy Altmann   South Africa	30.29	Inyengiyik Obia   Nigeria	31.06
100m Backstroke	Romy Altmann   South Africa	1:02.89	Jo-Ann Bergman   South Africa	1:07.61	Sarah Chahed   Tunisia	1:07.94
200m Backstroke	Romy Altmann   South Africa	2:15.15	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	2:22.50	Soha Abdallah   Egypt	2:26.12
50m Breaststroke	Ingrid Haiden   South Africa	32.89	Ziada Jardine   South Africa	32.99	Salma Zeinhoum   Egypt	33.33
100m Breaststroke	Ingrid Haiden   South Africa	1:11.00	Salma Zeinhoum   Egypt	1:11.92	Ziada Jardine   South Africa	1:12.82
200m Breaststroke	Ingrid Haiden   South Africa	2:32.66	Salma Zeinhoum   Egypt	2:37.20	Ziada Jardine   South Africa	2:43.50
50m Butterfly	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	27.56	Lauren Sparg   South Africa	28.53	May Raafat   Egypt	29.78
100m Butterfly	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	1:01.78	Lauren Sparg   South Africa	1:02.63	May Raafat   Egypt	1:05.01
200m Butterfly	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	2:17.47	Chanelle Van Wyk   South Africa	2:20.05	May Raafat   Egypt	2:20.80
200m I.M.	Lize-Mari Retief   South Africa	2:21.64	Salma Zeinhoum   Egypt	2:23.89	Bianca Meyer   South Africa	2:24.42
400m I.M	Bianca Meyer   South Africa	5:03.06	Shrone Austin   Seychelles	5:09.41	Kirsten van Heerden   South Africa	5:13.75
4 × 100 m   Free Relay	South Africa	3:52.74	Egypt	4:04.68	Tunisia	4:04.68
4 × 200 m   Free Relay	South Africa	8:40.84	Egypt	8:45.18	Tunisia	9:53.35
4 × 100 m   Medley Relay	South Africa	4:11.37	Egypt	4:31.84	Tunisia	4:37.84

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Africa	25	19	9	53
2	Egypt	6	12	18	36
3	Tunisia	6	1	6	13
4	Algeria	3	3	2	8
5	Seychelles	0	3	1	4
6	Senegal	0	1	3	4
7	Nigeria	0	1	1	2
Totals (7 entries)		40	40	40	120

References