SABC3 Expresso presenters Jen Su and Liezel van der Westhuizen with Olympic Gold Medalist Cameron van der Burgh (Photo credit: Jennifer Su)
Cameron van der Burgh followed up Chad le Clos’ gold at the 15th Fina world swimming championships in Barcelona on Wednesday when he won the 50m breaststroke.
Less than an hour earlier, Olympic champion Le Clos had won gold in the 200m butterfly.
To cap a great South African evening at the Palau Sant Jordi pool, Guilio Zorzi, who was swimming in his first major championship finals, won bronze in the 50m breaststroke.
Van der Burgh, 25, who is the world record holder over the 50m, won in a time of 26.77 seconds (26.77), edging out Australian Christian Sprenger by 0.01 seconds. Zorzi swam a 27.04.
Le Clos, who last year stunned American superstar Michael Phelps to win gold in London over the distance, won in a time of 1:55.01 seconds, beating Poland’s Pawel Korzeniowski by 0.57 seconds.
Bronze went to China’s Wu Peng.
South Africa’s tally now stands at four after van der Burgh had earlier won silver in the 100m breaststroke. – Sapa
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