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Rebecca Kamau finished in fifth position in the 200m individual medley race, an event won by legendary Zimbawean Kirsty Coventry on Thursday evening. Kamau timed 2:20.40 with Coventry (2:16.05), South African pair Marlies Ross and Rene Warnes in 2:17.57 and 2:18.98 and Rwioda Heshem of Egypt in 2:19.76.
Hamdan Bayusuf was sixth best in the men’s 100m backstroke, in 1:00.47, way behind another South African duo Richard Ellis and David de Villiers, who stopped the clock in 55.83 and 55.84. Two Egyptians — Mohamed Samy (55.84) and Mohamed Khaled (56.31) — followed, while an Algerian Riyad Djendouci was fifth.
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