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Le Clos qualifies for Kazan─── 08:06 Wed, 15 Apr 2015
South Africa’s swimming sensational and Olympic gold medalist, Chad le Clos has clocked the qualifying time for the FINA World Long Course Championships in Kazan.
The butterfly specialist reached standard for the championships in Russia during the semi-finals of the 200m freestyle during the national swimming championships in Durban.
Le Clos is the third swimmer at the 2015 South African National Championships at the King's Park to qualify after Cameron van der Burgh and Myles Brown booked their places in the 100m breaststroke and 400m freestyle respectively.
Van der Burgh posted the third fastest time in the world this season with his 59.78 second win in the final of the breaststroke.
Earlier, veteran swimmer and Olympic medallist Roland Schoeman claimed the 50m butterfly in a time of 23.69 seconds.
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