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Veteran South African swimmer Chad le Clos has won a 21st Commonwealth Games medal to overtake Australia’s Emma McKeon as the most decorated athlete in the Games’ history.
The 34-year-old swam the butterfly leg as South Africa took bronze in the men’s 4×100 medley relay late on Wednesday, for his third of the 2026 Games after silver in the mixed 4×100 medley and bronze in the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay.
His record tally is made up of seven golds, five silvers and nine bronzes across the last five Games, starting in Delhi in 2010 at the age of 18, where he earned five medals, and followed by seven medals in Glasgow in 2014.
He continued with five more on the Gold Coast in 2018 and one in Birmingham in 2022.
“It was emotional, but I think those first two medals (in Glasgow 2026) were just a little bit more just because I had to get over the hump and tonight I just had to stay…
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