Chad Le Clos wins again to land butterfly double at world champs

Van Niekerk was seventh into the turn, but she swam hard over the second 25 metres to notch up her third continental mark in this event, having gone 29.45 in the heats and 29.27 in the semifinals. 

American Lilly King was third in 29.11 and Qianting Tang fourth of China fourth in a 29.22 Asian record. 

The women’s 4x100m medley relay team of Milla Drakopoulos, Emily Visagie, Rebecca Meder and Caitlin de Lange clocked a 3min 59.64sec African record in the morning heats.

In all SA finished with five medals, with Matthew Sates contributing gold in the 200m individual medley and bronze in the 400m IM. 

Neither Sates nor Pieter Coetzé were able to advance beyond the heats of the 200m freestyle and 200m backstroke on Sunday morning.