Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan Swimming Federation (FAN) presents, this Tuesday (10am), at the Sapiens Institute, in Luanda, the 16th edition of the absolute African Championship, to be held, for the first time in the country, on the 30th of this month on May 5th, at the Alvalade swimming pool, in the country’s capital.
Angola organizes this competition, after six participations, in 1990 (Tunisia), 1998 (Kenya), 2008 (South Africa), 2012 (Kenya), 2021 (Ghana) and 2022 (Tunisia), marking its seventh presence.
The country becomes the second in zone IV of the African Swimming Confederation (CAN) to hold the biggest event of the sport on the continent, after South Africa, which did it twice, in 2008, in Johannesburg, and in 2016, in Bloemfontein.
Overall, it is the ninth host nation of the absolute African Championship, after having already been hosted by Egypt (1974, 1982, 2002), Tunisia (1977, 1990, 2022), Morocco (2004, 2010), Kenya (1998, 2012) , South Africa (2008, 2016), Senegal (2006), Algeria (2018) and Ghana (2021).
The national combined reached its highest point in the 1998 edition, in Nairobi, Kenya, where it came in third place in the overall medal table, as a result of the unprecedented performance of Nádia Cruz, who won two silver medals and one bronze.
However, the biggest crop of national medals took place in 2021, in Accra, Ghana, where, in a single edition, Angola won six bronze medals, one by Salvador Gordo (junior), Catarina Sousa and four in relays.
The South Africans, the continent’s biggest winners, with 10 titles, are the champions of the last edition, held in Tunis, Tunisia.
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