{"id":21510,"date":"2013-07-30T00:29:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/south-africans-impress-at-fina-swimming-champs\/"},"modified":"2013-07-30T00:29:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:29:31","slug":"south-africans-impress-at-fina-swimming-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africans-impress-at-fina-swimming-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans impress at Fina swimming champs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Veteran swimmer Schoeman stunned the field as he swam the fastest time in the 50m butterfly. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n

South Africa got off to a positive start at the 15th Fina swimming world championships<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n

Miles Brown advanced to his first-ever final<\/a> at a major meet and Roland Schoeman and Cameron van der Burgh qualified for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Veteran swimmer Schoeman stunned the field as he swam the fastest time in the 50m butterfly, a 23,02. The 33-year-old, who won the gold at the 2005 and 2007 worlds over the distance, declared himself a \u201chappy camper\u201d afterwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a shade different from all the other world championships that I have had in the last six odd years. It is nice to be able to come in and be smooth and go 23,0, even though I was not executing my ideal race plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, 200m butterfly Olympic champion Chad le Clos crashed out<\/a> in 23rd place with a time of 23,76 seconds.<\/p>\n

World record holder and Olympic champion Van der Burgh<\/a> qualified for the finals of the 100m breaststroke event with the seventh-fastest time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a waiting game to get to the final, that is what counts. We will see how it goes. You have to take each race as it comes. How you feel in the warm-up and then from the heats,\u201d Van der Burgh said. \u2013 Sapa<\/a><\/p>\n

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