Cameron van der Burgh

Cameron van der Burgh
Cameron van der Burgh (2012)
Personal information
Surname:	Cameron van der Burgh
Nation:	South Africa
Swimming style (s) :	chest
Society:	Northern Tigers Swimming
Birthday:	May 25, 1988
Place of birth:	Pretoria
Size:	1.82 m
Weight:	75 kg
Medal table

Cameron van der Burgh (born May 25, 1988 in Pretoria ) is a South African swimmer .

Career

Van der Burgh's favorite disciplines are the 50 and 100 meter chest distances. At the 2007 World Swimming Championships in Melbourne, he was able to present himself for the first time in international competitions when he swam the bronze medal over 50 meters chest.

His big breakthrough came a year later, when he won the silver medal over 100 meters and the bronze medal over the 50-meter chest distance at the 2008 World Short Course Championships in Manchester .

At the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing in 2008 Van der Burgh did not make it past the semifinals because he could not come close to his pre-run South African record in 00: 59.96 minutes. In view of the very strong competition, he finished tenth.

In autumn 2008 he set new short course world records over 50 and 100 meters chest. The almost seven-year-old record of the American Ed Moses over 100 meters chest improved Van der Burgh by 59 hundredths to 0: 56.88 minutes. Van der Burgh has already improved the world record over 50 meters chest twice. For the first, he set the almost two-year-old best time of the resigned Ukrainian Oleh Lissohor at the World Cup in Moscow by nine hundredths to 0: 26.08 minutes and for the second, just three days later, at the World Cup in Stockholm , he was the first person to stay on the Short track under 26 seconds and set the world record to 0: 25.94 minutes.

At the swimming world championships in Rome in 2009 he first won bronze over 100 meters breast. A day later he set a new world record in the 50 meter chest in the semi-finals . In the final, he achieved his greatest success to date with winning the title in the 50 meter chest and setting another world record. In 2010 he won the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi over 100 m breaststroke, in addition there was a silver medal with the 4 × 100 m individual relay.

He won the 50 meters and 100 meters chest at the Pan-African Games in 2011 .

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , he achieved a new world record of 58.46 seconds and won the gold medal at the same time.

At the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow van der Burgh won the 50 m chest in 26.76 seconds, setting a new Commonwealth Games record. He also won the silver medal in the 100 m breaststroke and a bronze medal with the 4 × 100 m individual relay. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest , van der Burgh had to admit defeat to Adam Peaty and won silver and bronze respectively. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast , he beat Peaty in the 50m chest and won gold. There were also bronze medals for the 100 m chest and the 4 × 100 m medley.

Records

World records (3)
50 m chest (short course)	25.25 s	November 14, 2009	Berlin
100 m chest (short course)	55.61 s	November 15, 2009	Berlin
100 m chest	58.46 s	July 29, 2012	London
(As of August 23, 2014)

Awards

In 2014 van der Burgh received the Order of Ikhamanga in silver.

Web links

Commons : Cameron van der Burgh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile at the South African Swimming Association
• Cameron van der Burgh in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
• Cameron van der Burgh in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National Orders Booklet 2014