Chad le Clos Accomplishes First Ever Butterfly Sweep at Short Course Worlds – Video

DOHA – Chad le Clos challenged his world record in the men’s 200 fly with his triumph at the FINA World Short Course Championships. Watch Race Video

Le Clos just missed his global standard of 1:48.56 from the Singapore stop of the FINA World Cup. Tonight, he crushed the meet record with a sizzling time of 1:48.61. Daiya Seto held the previous meet mark with a 1:50.82 from prelims today.

With the win, le Clos is the first person (male or female) to ever sweep all three butterfly events in a single short course worlds.

Le Clos also now has four individual golds this week, becoming just the second male swimmer ever to do so. Ryan Lochte won five golds in 2010.

Japan’s Seto wound up taking second in 1:48.92, just missing the world record himself as he beat Takeshi Matsuda’s Asian record of 1:49.50 from the 2011 Tokyo stop of the FINA World Cup.

Poland’s Pawel Korzeniowski finished third overall in 1:50.21, while USA’s Tom Shields managed to take fourth in 1:50.68.

Denmark’s Viktor Bromer (1:52.13), Russia’s Aleksandr Kudashev (1:52.17), Russia’s Nikolay Skvortsov (1:52.52) and Australia’s Grant Irvine (1:52.69) placed fifth through eighth.

Name	50	100	150	200
Le Clos	24.24	52.39	1:20.81	1:48.61
Seto	24.52	52.43	1:20.65	1:48.92
Korzeniowski	24.90	53.05	1:21.17	1:50.21

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Women’s 200 free relay
Men’s 100 free
Women’s 50 back
Men’s 200 back
Women’s 200 breast
Men’s 100 IM
Women’s 100 fly
Men’s 50 breast
Women’s 50 free
Men’s 200 fly
Men’s 1500 free
Women’s 200 free
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