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South African swimmer (born )

Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos, OIS (born 12 April ) is a South African competitive swimmer who is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games champion.

It took mere minutes for pranksters to hack Chad le Clos' Wikipedia page following his defeat to Michael Phelps in the m butterfly.

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' This is the story of Chad le Clos, Olympic gold medallist and record breaker, the swimmer with the never-say-die attitude.

He died by the hands of Michael Phelps, being literally blown out of the water by the greatest American since Abraham Lincoln.

He began his competitive swimming career at the age of In , he dealt Michael Phelps his first Olympic loss in ten years.

He is the African record, Commonwealth record, and South African record holder in the short course and long course metre butterfly and the short course metre butterfly. He also holds African and South African records in the long course metre freestyle and metre butterfly, as well as the short course metre freestyle.

Formerly, he was a world record holder in the short coursemetre butterfly and metre butterfly.

At the Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the metre butterfly and a silver medal in the metre butterfly, as well as silver medals in the metre freestyle and metre butterfly at the Summer Olympics.

He won five total medals at the Summer Youth Olympics. Le Clos has won the Swimming World Cup overall male winner title four times: , , , and Across the , , and Commonwealth Games, he ha