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Le Clos takes bronze in Gwangju─── MORGAN PIEK 15:26 Wed, 24 Jul 2019
South Africa’s golden boy in the pool, Chad le Clos, has won the country’s first medal at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.
Le Clos won the bronze in the 200m butterfly for men. The event for which Le Clos is known to do well in was won by the 19-year-oldHungarian teenager, Kristof Milak.
Milak brought an end to Le Clos’ dominance in the event when he touched the wall in 1:50.73 to shatter the 10-year-old world record of Michael Phelps.
Milak beat Japan’s Daiya Seto to the wall with more than 3 seconds. Seto touched the wall in a time of 1:53.86.
Le Clos rounded off the podium with bronze in 1:54.15.
The previous world record, set by Phelps, was1:51.51 which he sent in Rome in 2009.
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