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Women's 200 metre freestyle
at the 2018 African Swimming Championships
Women's 200 metre freestyle ; at the 2018 African Swimming Championships
Venue	Mohamed Boudiaf Olympic Complex
Dates	11 September (heats and final)
Competitors	12 from 9 nations
Winning time	2:04.46
Medalists
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The Women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the 2018 African Swimming Championships was held on 11 September 2018.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Federica Pellegrini	Italy	1:52.98	Rome	29 July 2009
African record	Kirsty Coventry	Zimbabwe	1:57.04	Austin	7 June 2008
Championship record	Leone Vorster	South Africa	2:01.92	Dakar	12 September 2006

The heats were started on 11 September at 11:30.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hania Moro	Egypt	2:06.37	Q
2	Jessica Whelan	South Africa	2:08.48	Q
3	Janie Coetzer	South Africa	2:09.18	Q
4	Souad Cherouati	Algeria	2:10.13	Q
5	Majda Chebaraka	Algeria	2:11.58	Q
6	Menna Kchouk	Tunisia	2:11.85	Q
7	Imara-Bella Thorpe	Kenya	2:16.61	Q
8	Therese Soukup	Seychelles	2:16.99	Q
9	Selina Katumba	Uganda	2:25.90	NR
10	Catarina Trigo	Cape Verde	2:27.77
11	Samantha Rakotovelo	Madagascar	2:28.07
	Antsa Rabesahala	Madagascar	Did not start

The final was started on 11 September.^[2]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Hania Moro	Egypt	2:04.46
	5	Jessica Whelan	South Africa	2:06.14
	3	Janie Coetzer	South Africa	2:07.08
4	2	Majda Chebaraka	Algeria	2:07.10
5	6	Souad Cherouati	Algeria	2:07.38
6	7	Menna Kchouk	Tunisia	2:10.46
7	1	Imara-Bella Thorpe	Kenya	2:14.52
8	8	Therese Soukup	Seychelles	2:16.87