Cameron van der Burgh
Cameron van der Burgh (2012 )
Cameron van der Burgh (born 25 May 1988 in Pretoria) is a South African swimmer.
Career
Van der Burgh's excels in the 50 - and 100 - meter breaststroke distances. He could sit at the World Swimming Championships in 2007 in Melbourne for the first time in international competitions in scene when he swam about 50 meters breaststroke bronze medal.
His big breakthrough came a year later, when he first lived in Manchester won the silver medal over 100 meters and bronze in the 50 - meter breaststroke section at the Short Course World Championships 2008.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Van der Burgh came does not go beyond the semi-final, as it no longer came up to his set up in the lead South African record in 00:59,96 minutes. Given the very strong competition, he finished tenth overall place.
In autumn 2008 he set new short course world records over 50 and 100m breaststroke. The nearly seven -year-old record by the American Ed Moses 100m breaststroke improved Van der Burgh by 59 hundredths 0:56,88 min. The world record is over 50 meters breaststroke could van der Burgh already improve twice. For the first he pressed the nearly two -year-old best time of already retired Ukrainian Oleh Lissohor at the World Cup in Moscow by nine hundredths of 0:26,08 minutes and for the second, just three days later, at the World Cup in Stockholm, he was the very first person in the short Course under 26 seconds, and set the world record 0:25,94 minutes.
In the swimming world championships in Rome in 2009, he first won bronze 100m breaststroke. A day later, he presented then in the semifinals over 50 meters breaststroke on a new world record. In the final he then managed its greatest success with winning the title over 50 meter breaststroke and the renewed world record. In 2010 he won at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi about 100 m breaststroke, but also with a silver medal in the 4x100m medley relay.
He won in 2011 over 50 meters and 100 meters breaststroke at the Pan-African Games.
About 100 meters breaststroke, he reached at the 2012 Olympic Games in London with 58.46 seconds set a new world record and won with it at the same time the gold medal.