Beijing Olympic Games

Updated: 2007-07-19 From: Xinhuanet

ALGIERS, July 18 (Xinhua) — Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry won the 200m women’s backstroke in 2:10.66, taking her fifth gold medal in the on-going 9th All African Games in the Algerian capital.

Coventry has already won gold medals in the women’s 100m backstroke, 800m free-style, 400m individual medleys and 50m backstroke.

She has also succeeded in breaking records in these games in five categories.

The Zimbabwean swimmer, who trains regularly in the United States had won the women’s 200m backstroke gold medal during the Athens Olympic Games.

On the fifth day of this tournament, South Africans swimmers harvested four gold medals, respectively in the women’s 50m and 200m butterfly, women’s 1,500m freestyle and men’s 4×100m relay.

The swimming competition of the 9th All African Games is set to end on Wednesday.