South Africa’s le Clos breaks Commonwealth Games medal record

South Africa took bronze successful the men’s 4×100 medley relay for Chad le Clos’s grounds 21st Commonwealth Games medal.

Veteran South ‌African swimmer Chad le Clos has won a 21st Commonwealth Games medal ⁠to overtake Australia’s Emma McKeon arsenic the astir decorated jock successful the Games’ history.

The 34-year-old swam the butterfly limb ⁠as South Africa took bronze successful the men’s 4×100 medley relay precocious connected Wednesday, for his 3rd of the 2026 Games aft metallic successful the mixed 4×100 ⁠medley and bronze successful the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay.

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His grounds tally is made up of 7 golds, 5 silvers and 9 bronzes crossed the past 5 Games, starting successful Delhi successful 2010 astatine the property of 18, wherever helium earned 5 medals, and followed by 7 medals successful Glasgow successful 2014.

He continued with 5 much connected the Gold Coast successful 2018 and 1 successful Birmingham successful 2022.

“It was emotional, but I deliberation those archetypal 2 medals (in Glasgow 2026) were conscionable a small spot much conscionable due to the fact that I had to get implicit ⁠the hump and contiguous I conscionable had to enactment ⁠cool and bring it home,” helium said aft Wednesday’s relay.

“The mode the boys and girls swam … they swam their hearts out. They kept saying ‘we’re doing this for Chad’ earlier they ⁠walked down, and it conscionable means the satellite to me.”

Le Clos is besides an Olympic champion. He ⁠stunned the sporting satellite erstwhile helium pipped Michael ⁠Phelps by 0.05 seconds to triumph the 200-metre butterfly golden astatine the 2012 London Games.

At the time, American icon Phelps was a 14-time Olympic champion and had not mislaid ‌in the lawsuit since 2001.

Le Clos won medals astatine the Olympics successful Rio successful 2016 and has since competed successful Tokyo and Paris. He ‌has ‌said helium hopes to suffice for his 5th Olympics successful Los Angeles successful 2 years.