By Mark Wild on SwimSwam
2025 World Championships
July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming) Singapore, Singapore World Aquatics Championships Arena LCM (50m) Meet Central How To Watch SwimSwam Preview Index Entry Book Live Results Live Recaps Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8The 2025 Singapore World Championships could be considered nothing short of a success for the continent of Africa. The 2nd largest continent by both landmass and population, Africa, for reasons of infrastructure, politics, culture, violence, wealth inequality, or geography, has struggled to develop itself as a powerhouse in any sport, but especially in swimming, a sport which has an extremely high barrier of entry.
However, perhaps the continent’s performance this past week may lead to more development of the sport, which has its foundations in preventing drowning, and continue the positive trend seen in Singapore. In the swimming medal table, Tunisia tied for 8th with two gold medals, and South Africa was 11th in the rankings, collecting four medals: one gold, two silvers, and a bronze.
African Nation Medals
South Africa Gold: Men’s 100 Back Silver: Men’s 50 and 200 Back Bronze: Women’s 200 Breast Tunisia Gold: Men’s 800 and 1500 Free2025 and its six medals were the most collected by the continent since 2009, when in the supersuited era, the nations of Tunisia (1 Gold, 2 Silvers), Zimbabwe (1 Gold and 1 Silver), and South Africa (1 Gold, 2 Bronzes) combined for eight medals.
It’s not just the medals, however, that make it an impressive week. Tunisia’s Ahmed Jaouadi joined his compatriots Ous Melloui (2009) and Ahmed Hafnaoui (2023) as champions in the 1500 free. While Grant Hackett and Gregorio Paltrinieri have won the event three times each, no nation has had three different champions in the event, let alone two.
Jaoudi also completed the distance double, winning the 800 and 1500 freestyles, the former in a new textile World best and the latter not only doubling up with his 1500 win at Short Course Worlds, but both races were against the World Record holder. Such is the strength of the Tunisian distance free records, that his incredible swims did not even reset the national record board, let alone the continental board.
That’s okay, though, because Pieter Coetze of South Africa ended the week with three medals, a World title and three new African records as he rewrote the 50/100/200 back records, with the 100 back record of 51.85 of particular note as not only did it win his first gold medal, but was one of the fastest performances ever.
Coetze was not the lone swimmer from South Africa to rewrite the Continental record books as the quartet of Olivia Nel, Rebecca Meder, Erin Gallagher, and Aimee Canny broke the three-year-old Women’s 4×100 Medley Record by .16.
Other Day 6 Continental News
As mentioned above, South Africa’s Women’s Medley team of Nel, Meder, Gallagher, and Canny posted a new National and Continental record of 3:59.47 in the prelims. The foursome came with .11 of tying for 8th with the Neutral Athlete B Team. Ahmed Jaouadi completed the distance double, two years after compatriot Ahmed Hafnaoui did, as the Tunisian won the 1500 on the final night of competition. His time of 14:34.41 jumped him up to 6th all-time among performers and 10th among performances. Pieter Coetze earned his third medal, a silver in the 50 back, and joined Qin Haiyang and Regan Smith as the only athletes to medal across all three distances of a stroke (Katie Ledecky did medal in the 400/800/1500 free).Continental Medal Table
Gold Silver Bronze Total South Africa 1 2 1 4 Tunisia 2 2Continental Records
Men’s 100 Back: Pieter Coetze – 51.85 Men’s 200 Back: Pieter Coetze – 1:54.22 Men’s 50 Back: Pieter Coezte – 24.17 Women’s 4×100 Medley: South Africa – 3:59.47National Records
Benin Alexis Kpade: Men’s 100 Back – 57.25 Cape Verde Shearer, Pina, Dacruz, Tati: Mixed Medley Relay – 4:32.16 Jayla Pina: Women’s 50 Breast – 33.26 Central African Republic Leo Nzimbi: Men’s 50 Free – 26.23 Democratic Republic of Congo Jehu Matondo Bosange Zozo: Men’s 50 Free – 28.15 Djibouti Houmed Barkat: Men’s 100 Free – 56.22 Ghana Joselle Mensah: Women’s 100 Free – 58.98 Joselle Mensah: Women’s 50 Free – 26.48 Guinea Elhadj N’Gnane Diallo: Men’s 50 Free – 26.13 Guinea-Bissau Pedro Rogery: Men’s 50 Free – 28.14 Kenya Haniel Kudwoli: Men’s 100 Breast– 1:04.92 Thorpe, Kudwoli, Nyoike, Mose: Mixed Medley Relay – 4:07.72 Libya Anas Ganedi: Men’s 100 Breast– 1:09.89 Anas Ganedi: Men’s 50 Breast– 31.14 Mauritania Camil Doua: Men’s 50 Free – 25.76 Mauritius Victor Ah Yong: Men’s 100 Fly – 55.76 Maldives Amna Thazkiyah Mirsaad: Women’s 100 Back – 1:13.49 Meral Ayn Latheef: Women’s 200 IM – 2:44.34 Mohamed Rihan Shiham: Men’s 200 Fly – 2:25.20 Mohamed Aan Hussain: Men’s 100 Free – 53.80 Mirsaad, Hussain, Shiham, Latheef: Mixed Medley Relay – 4:40.23 Mohamed Aan Hussain: Men’s 50 Free – 23.81 Morocco Samy Boutouil: Men’s 50 Breast – 27.78 Marwane Sebbata: Men’s 100 Free – 50.04 Imane El Barodi: Women’s 50 Fly – 27.47 Marwane Sebbata: Men’s 50 Free – 22.73 Mozambique Kaio Faftine: Men’s 200 IM – 2:10.48 Namibia Ronan Wantenaar: Men’s 50 Breast – 26.85 Nigeria Timipame-ere Akiayefa: Women’s 50 Fly – 28.21 Senegal Oumy Diop: Women’s 50 Back – 29.38 Oumy Diop: Women’s 50 Fly – 27.19 Seychelles Adam Moncherry: Men’s 50 Fly – 24.84 Adam Moncherry: Men’s 50 Free – 23.88 South Africa Pieter Coetze: Men’s 100 Back – 51.85 Pieter Coetze: Men’s 200 Back- 1:54.22 Pieter Coetze: Men’s 50 Back- 24.17 Erin Gallagher: Women’s 50 Fly – 25.39 Nel, Meder, Gallagher, Canny: Women’s Medley Relay – 3:59.47 Tanzania Collins Saliboko: Men’s 100 Free – 53.10 The Gambia Ousman Jobe: Men’s 50 Free – 26.72 Uganda Jesse Ssengonzi: Men’s 50 Fly – 24.32 Namutebi, Mukalazi, Ssengonzi, Muzito: Mixed Medley Relay – 4:07.72 Jesse Ssengonzi: Men’s 100 Fly – 53.32 Zambia Zach Moyo: Men’s 100 Breast – 1:05.64 Zach Moyo: Men’s 50 Breast – 29.04 Damien Shamambo: Men’s 50 Free – 23.42Read the full story on SwimSwam: 2025 Worlds, Day 8 Africa Recap: Banner Season for Continent, Most Medals at Worlds Since 2009
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