After an exciting campaign to the 200m butterfly final earlier in the week, ChadleClos was unable to generate the same pace in the 100m on Thursday. Tokyo2020 Olympics TeamSA By ashfakmohamed IOLSport
Perhaps the emotion of Wednesday’s 200m final took too much out of the South African on Thursday in the 100m, as he never got going. Le Clos was already down in sixth spot after the first 50 metres, with a split of 24.36, and he couldn’t recover by the end of the race to finish in sixth spot in a time of 51.89 seconds.
ALSO READ: Valiant effort not enough for a medal for Chad le Clos, Kristof Milak powers to gold in 200m butterfly Bulgaria’s Josif Miladinov took the honours in 51.28, and then it was a nervous wait for Le Clos to see whether he would be placed in the top 16 that advanced to the semi-finals. It was not to be, though, as he ended in 18th.
Fellow South African Matthew Sates also didn’t go any further, as he produced a time of 52.34 in his heat for 32nd place overall. American favourite and world record-holder Caeleb Dressel underlined his dominance by qualifying as the fastest in the competition with a new Olympic record of 50.39 seconds, with Milak lurking ominously in second position with 50.62.
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