{"id":21578,"date":"2013-08-01T00:33:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T22:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/gold-for-van-der-burgh-and-le-clos\/"},"modified":"2013-08-01T00:33:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T22:33:51","slug":"gold-for-van-der-burgh-and-le-clos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gold-for-van-der-burgh-and-le-clos\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold for Van der Burgh and Le Clos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SABC3 Expresso presenters Jen Su and Liezel van der Westhuizen with Olympic Gold Medalist Cameron van der Burgh (Photo credit: Jennifer Su)<\/p>\n

Cameron van der Burgh followed up Chad le Clos\u2019 gold at the 15th Fina world swimming championships in Barcelona on Wednesday when he won the 50m breaststroke.<\/p>\n

Less than an hour earlier, Olympic champion Le Clos had won gold in the 200m butterfly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Pawel Korzeniowski by 0.57 seconds.<\/p>\n

Bronze went to China\u2019s Wu Peng.<\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s tally now stands at four after van der Burgh had earlier won silver in the 100m breaststroke. \u2013 Sapa<\/a><\/p>\n

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