Cameron sets new CWG record

Published Oct 6, 2010

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Cameron van der Burgh won South Africa's third gold medal and the seventh overall at the 19th Commonwealth Games on Wednesday, with a record-breaking swim in the 100m breaststroke. Van der Burgh, the 50m breastroke world record holder, turned first after the first lap and then "put every single thing I had into that last 50m".

His new Commonwealth Games record of one minute 0.10 seconds condemned the former holder of the record, Christian Sprenger (1:00.29) of Australia, into second place with another Australia, Brenton Rickard (1:00.46) in third.

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