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
Felicity Passon    Seychelles   Samantha Randle    South Africa   Robyn Lee    Zimbabwe
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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.^[1]

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