The 2022 SA National Swimming Championships was held from 6 to 11 April 2022 in

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at the Newton Park Swimming Pool."Event Information: 2022 S A National Swimming Championships incorporating S A National Junior Age Groups"
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(50 metres long) swimming pool. It served as a selection meet for determining the swimmers to represent South Africa at the

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events."2022 SA National Aquatic Championships - Swimming: Psych Sheet"
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Event schedule

A total of 62 events were competed over six days, including 18 para swimming events. For para swimming events, men and women had the same schedule. Heats started at 07:30 on days one and four, and started at 08:30 on days two, three, five, and six. Senior finals started at 18:00 each day."2022 SA National Swimming Championships Daily Schedule"
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Overall results

Key: "FINA World Championships 2022: Qualification System"
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Men

: Coetze swam a FINA "A" cut time of 53.96 seconds in the heats.Race, Retta (6 April 2022)
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'' SuperSport''. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022. : Houlie swam a FINA "A" cut time, though was not automatically qualified for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships team as he did not qualify in an Olympic event.Jonckheere, Karien (9 April 2022)
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'' News24''. Retrieved 9 April 2022. : Coetze swam a FINA "A" cut time of 22.15 seconds in the 50 metre freestyle for the lead-off leg of the relay.

Women

Mixed

Medal table

Qualification via time trial

The following qualifying time was achieved during a time trial conducted as part of the Championships.

Records set

Men

Women

Broadcast

A live broadcast of day one was aired on

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. SwimSA TV (5 April 2022)
"SA National Swimming Championships 2022"
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"SA National Swimming Championships 2022 Day 2"
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"National Aquatics Championships 2022 Day 3"
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"National Aquatics Championships 2022 Day 4"
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"National Aquatics Championships 2022 Day 5"
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"National Aquatics Championships 2022 Day 6"
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''. Retrieved 11 April 2022. Aired broadcasts were continuous stream format, meaning they covered heats through finals, and were segmented into two videos if exceeding 12 hours in length.

Participating nations

Athletes from countries including the following participated at the Championships. * (BOTS) * (GBR) * (IND) * (CDTM) * (NAM) * (RSA, by region) * (SEY) * (ZAM) * (ZIM)

South Africa regional representation

Athletes from South Africa competed on teams by province/region, including the following. *

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(Aquatics Guateng Tshwane - AGC) * Eastern Cape (Eastern Cape Aquatics - ECA) * FAAC * Free State (FSA) * HAM * KwaZulu-Natal (KZNA) *

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(LP) * Mpumalanga (MPA) *

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(North West Swimming - NWS) *

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References

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Event schedule

Overall results

Men

Women

Mixed

Medal table

Qualification via time trial

Records set

Men

Women

Broadcast

Participating nations

South Africa regional representation

See also

References