Posted on September 07, 2015
Cameron van der Burgh and Karin Prinsloo, hpc sponsored swimmers opened and closed South Africa’s first day of swimming at the Africa Games here on Sunday 6 September in golden style.
Van der Burgh won the first gold in the pool for Team SA when he clocked 1min 00.19sec in the 100-metre breaststroke for an African Games Championship record.
Prinsloo finished in style when she anchored the 4x200m freestyle relay team to gold to end the day’s programme.
It was a good night for South Africa as they swam to six medals on the night. Four of those were gold and two silver.
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