NAIROBI, Kenya, Could 6, 2026 – Kenyan swimmer Sarah Mose received bronze on Day One of many Africa Aquatics Swimming Championships in Oran, Algeria on Wednesday morning.
Mose clocked a nationwide document of 57.49 seconds to complete third within the ladies’s 100 metres freestyle.
Uganda’s Gloria Muzito received gold after clocking 55.65 seconds to seize first place as Zimbabwean Paige Van Der Westhuizen needed to be content material with silver after timing 56.54 seconds in second place.
Wednesday’s consequence marked one other feather within the cap for Mose who has steadily and certainly established herself as one of many nation’s prime swimmers.
The Poland-based athlete’s final competitors was eventually yr’s World Championships in Singapore the place she set a private greatest (PB) of 25.96 within the ladies’s 50m freestyle.
The 19-year-old was additionally a part of the 4x100m medley relay staff that cruised to a nationwide document of 04:07.72 on the identical competitors.
Kenya contingent consists at this yr’s continental competitors includes 12 swimmers who’re tasked with bettering the nation’s outcomes from the final version in Luanda, Angola in 2024.
Moreover Mose, different swimmers to control embody Imara Bella Thorpe, Haniel Kudwoli, Iman Ngaruiya, Jeremy Mutwii, Iqbaal Bayusuf, Swaleh Talib, Baraka Nyakundi, Stephen Ndegwa, Nathan Matimu, Isabelle Mwangi and South Africa-based Neo Olengo.