{"id":21671,"date":"2013-08-04T00:46:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T22:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/le-clos-wins-butterfly-for-second-gold\/"},"modified":"2013-08-04T00:46:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T22:46:38","slug":"le-clos-wins-butterfly-for-second-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/le-clos-wins-butterfly-for-second-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Clos wins butterfly for second gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Lochte.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[12237]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"English: Lochte at the 2009 National Champions...\" alt=\"English: Lochte at the 2009 National Champions...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f75b6_300px-Lochte.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">English: Lochte at the 2009 National Championships. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s Chad le Clos claimed his second gold when he won the 100m butterfly final at the Fina world swimming championships in Barcelona on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Le Clos, the Olympic and world 200m champion, clocked 51.06sec with Hungary\u2019s Laszlo Cseh at 0.39 back and Poland\u2019s Konrad Czerniak 0.40 adrift in the 100m final.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Lochte, who has won three golds in Barcelona, finished sixth on his 29th birthday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/gold-for-van-der-burgh-and-le-clos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Having won the 200m final on Monday, the same night compatriot Cameron van der Burgh won the men\u2019s 50m breaststroke final<\/a>, Le Clos was delighted at his second world title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning I was really nervous and I was really excited before the race,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I am extremely happy because this medal is really special for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Le Clos admitted he glanced across to check where he was during the race, a bad habit his coach has told him not to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I shouldn\u2019t, but I wanted to make sure I was in the race,\u201d he admitted. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/sport\/more-sport\/le-clos-wins-100m-butterfly-gold-1.1557164#.Uf1SaJI3CuI\" target=\"_blank\">Sapa-AFP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/gold-for-van-der-burgh-and-le-clos\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f75b6_189836873_80_802.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/gold-for-van-der-burgh-and-le-clos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gold for Van der Burgh and Le Clos<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/le-clos-and-van-der-burgh-the-toast-of-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f75b6_190051628_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/le-clos-and-van-der-burgh-the-toast-of-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Le Clos and Van der Burgh the toast of the nation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/a0768_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English: Lochte at the 2009 National Championships. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) South Africa\u2019s Chad le Clos claimed his second gold when he won the 100m butterfly final at the Fina world swimming championships in Barcelona on Saturday. The 21-year-old Le Clos, the Olympic and world 200m champion, clocked 51.06sec with Hungary\u2019s Laszlo Cseh at 0.39 back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}