Times are still pretty modest down at the 9th African Swimming Championships at the Ellis Park Aquatics Centre in Johannesburg, though a 2:33.39 200m breaststroke is not at all bad for a 13-year-old girl: Jessica Liss provided one of the highlights of day two at the end of a year that saw her narrowly miss Olympic selection for South Africa.

Jason Dunford (KEN) turned in a 52.49 victory in the 100m butterfly and Oussama Mellouli (TUN), Olympic 1,500m free champion, swam at training pace to win the 400m medley and 800m free, respectively in times of 4:25.16 and 8:20.73 - that's 6sec slower than Rebecca Adlington, British Olympic champion among women. Still, it's a strange time to be swimming long-course just after a short-course world tour.

Swimming South African reported that an approaching late-afternoon Gauteng thunder storm stayed away long enough to allow the completion of the swimming programme.