Yesterday the 17-year-old swimmer won the gold in the 50m butterfly in a time of 24.52 seconds.

This morning he added to that gold by helping team South Africa secure the gold in the 50m medley relay with the team winning thethe race in 1:48.23.

He also shaved nearly three seconds off his national 50m backstroke record by winning the gold to set the new national mark at 25.94 seconds.

And to cap off a nearly perfect day in the pool he earned bronze on the 200m freestyle relay with the team clinching third in 8:2.84.

Waddell coach, Simon Gray told OFM Sport that his races are on top of each other so it’s tough to compete.

"He's doing fantastic, I'm very proud of him.

"He has won the most individual gold medals at the moment, so all that hard work has been worth it.

"The one thing is that his races are right on top of each other, so he hasn't had much time to recover for his second races, so his second races aren't coming into the expectations that we expected, but it's mainly because of not recovering but otherwise in general he is doing fantastic".

Gray added that Waddell will be targeting a sub 23 second time in the 50m freestyle.

“We are going to try and break that 23 second barrier in the 50m freestyle, that’s our next goal.”

The 50 freesyle will take place on Thursday and Waddell has drawn lane four of the third heat.

South Africa are currently second in the medals standing behind Australia, of South Africa’s 6 gold medals, three belong to Waddell.

Morgan Piek / OFM News