| Final | Team | time | L | Y | | 1. Taki Mrabet | TUN | 2:16.51 | 4 | 22 | | 2. Wassim Elloumi | TUN | 2:18.58 | 2 | 18 | | 3. Sofiane Daid | ALG | 2:19.74 | 5 | 27 | | 4. Abdelkader Afane | ALG | 2:20.81 | 6 | 17 | | 5. Chad Le Clos | RSA | 2:20.83 | 3 | 19 | | 6. Malick Fall | SEN | 2:21.45 | 1 | 25 | | 7. Timothy Ferris | ZIM | 2:23.87 | 7 | 21 | | 8. Edward Johannisen | RSA | 2:27.79 | 8 | 16 |
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| Record -2007 | | Sofiane Daid (ALG) 2:14.27 |
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| Heats | Tram | time | L | Ht | seed | Y | | 1. Taki Mrabet | TUN | 2:21.24 | 4 | 2. | 2:15.20 | 22 | | 2. Sofiane Daid | ALG | 2:22.87 | 4 | 1. | 2:18.30 | 27 | | 3. Chad Le Clos | RSA | 2:23.16 | 3 | 2. | 2:20.00 | 19 | | 4. Abdelkader Afane | ALG | 2:23.59 | 3 | 1. | 2:21.60 | 17 | | 5. Wassim Elloumi | TUN | 2:24.40 | 5 | 2. | 2:18.94 | 18 | | 6. Timothy Ferris | ZIM | 2:24.78 | 6 | 2. | 2:22.39 | 21 | | 7. Malick Fall | SEN | 2:26.54 | 5 | 1. | 2:20.00 | 25 | | 8. Edward Johannisen | RSA | 2:28.70 | 2 | 2. | 2:26.47 | 16 | | 9. James Lawson | ZIM | 2:31.16 | 6 | 1. | 2:22.72 | 16 | | 10.Darren Chan Chin Wah | MRI | 2:37.66 | 2 | 1. | 2:29.58 | 15 | | 11.Monday Mogbojuri | NGR | 2:38.39 | 1 | 1. | 2:50.46 | 24 | | 12.Tory Pragassa | KEN | 2:38.63 | 1 | 2. | 2:49.11 | 14 | | 13.Elton Naene | MOZ | 2:41.86 | 7 | 1. | 2:49.06 | 20 | | 14.Marin Cipcic | ANG | 2:43.12 | 7 | 2. | 2:45.78 | 16 | | 15.Mamadou Amarra Fofana | MLI | 2:53.84 | 8 | 2. | 2:54.02 | 15 | | 16.Alexandros Axiotis | ZAM | 2:53.84 | 8 | 1. | 2:54.02 | 15 |
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