Cameron van der Burgh

Cameron van der Burgh is a retired South African breaststroke swimmer, born on 25 May 1988 and based in Pretoria. He won the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2012 London Olympics in a world record time of 58.46 seconds, making him Africa's first home-trained individual male Olympic champion and world record holder. Earlier he set a 50 metre breaststroke world record in 2009 and won world and Commonwealth titles in that event, and he later took Olympic silver in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Games. Three times he won the overall FINA World Cup. His long rivalry with Britain's Adam Peaty defined the final years of a career that ended with his retirement in December 2018, after which he worked as a hedge fund analyst.