﻿{"id":445911,"date":"2020-09-06T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T23:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=445911"},"modified":"2020-09-07T06:28:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:28:03","slug":"cameron-van-der-burgh-nefeli-valakelis-welcome-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cameron-van-der-burgh-nefeli-valakelis-welcome-first-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron van der Burgh, Nefeli Valakelis Welcome First Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic gold medalist <strong>Cameron van der Burgh<\/strong> and wife <strong>Nefeli Valakelis<\/strong> announced the arrival of their first child on Instagram Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Harry David van der Burgh was born on Sept. 4. Cameron van der Burgh announced the addition on Instagram Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CEwD6P-nZbd\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CEwD6P-nZbd\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry David van der Burgh you were only waiting for this moment to arrive. 04\/09\/2020, 15:42 \u2764\ufe0f We love you more than words can describe @nef_val and baby doing well!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cameronvdburgh\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Cameron van der Burgh OIS<\/a> (@cameronvdburgh) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2020-09-05T10:08:46+00:00\">Sep 5, 2020 at 3:08am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Van der Burgh represented South Africa at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics. He won gold in the men\u2019s 100 breaststroke at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/2012-london-olympics-cameron-van-der-burghs-world-record-ends-kosuke-kitajimas-threepeat-bid-in-100-breast-hansen-medals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the London Games<\/a> in 2012, setting a world record. He added silver in the event in Rio four years later. He\u2019s also won two golds (10 total medals) at the long-course world championships and four golds (eight total medals) at the short-course worlds plus four Commonwealth Games and six African Games golds.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Burgh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cameron-van-der-burgh-wins-final-individual-race-of-his-career-in-new-championship-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retired after short-course worlds in 2018<\/a>. He contracted COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cameron-van-der-burgh-goes-viral-on-his-coronavirus-covid-19-struggle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in March<\/a> and waged a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cameron-van-der-burgh-wins-final-individual-race-of-his-career-in-new-championship-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public struggle with the virus<\/a>. He and Valakelis announced her pregnancy publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CA2893vHHbk\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at the end of May<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic gold medalist Cameron van der Burgh and wife Nefeli Valakelis announced the arrival of their first child on Instagram Saturday. 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