| Final 17:40 | time | L |  | 1. Ahmed Akram |  EGY | 1:58.87 | 4  |  | 2. Devon Brown |  RSA | 1:59.28 | 5  |  | 3. Ahmed Hamdy |  EGY | 2:01.54 | 3  |  | 4. Alard Basson |  RSA | 2:04.21 | 6  |  | 5. Pedro Pinotes |  ANG | 2:06.65 | 2  |  | 6. Igor Mogne |  MOZ | 2:10.59 | 7  |  | 7. Jorn Diekmann |  NAM | 2:18.94 | 1  |  | 8. Michael Botha |  BOT | 2:25.45 | 8  |   
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 Heats - Thursday 10.09 10:00 |  | Michael Botha (BOT) replaced Abdulmajid Kadermani (KEN). |   
| Ranking | time |  | 1. Ahmed Akram |  EGY | 2:04.21 |  | 2. Devon Brown |  RSA | 2:04.47 |  | 3. Ahmed Hamdy |  EGY | 2:06.76 |  | 4. Alard Basson |  RSA | 2:07.07 |  | 5. Pedro Pinotes |  ANG | 2:10.30 |  | 6. Igor Mogne |  MOZ | 2:14.00 |  | 7. Jorn Diekmann |  NAM | 2:18.86 |  | 8. Abdulmajid Kadermani |  KEN | 2:29.20 |  |  eliminated |  | 9. Michael Botha |  BOT | 2:30.84 |  | 10.Mohamed B. Ahmed Ibrahim |  SUD | 2:50.64 |   
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