SWIMMING NEWS - There was silver and an African record for Olympian Chad le Clos, as the 14th Fina World Swimming Championships (25m) got under way in Hangzhou, China today.
In the 200m butterfly, Le Clos was fastest off the block but lost some speed at the 100m mark to conclude the final with the silver medal and a new African record in 1:48.32, while Japan’s Daiya Seto broke the South African’s world record and clocked a fast 1:48.24 to Le Clos’s 2013 time of 1:48.56. The bronze went to China’s Zhuhao Li in 1:50.39.
