More medals for SA swimmers
South Africa's Chad Le Clos picked-up two silver medals and a bronze at the Fina/Arena Swimming World Cup final leg in Tokyo on Saturday.
The KwaZulu-Natal based swimmer finished second in the 200m butterfly with a time of 1:51,00.
He shared the podium with Japan's Takeshi Matsuda and Kazuya Kaneda who finished first and third respectively.
Le Clos' second silver medal came in the 100m individual medley when he touched the wall in a time of 53.33 with the gold going to Japan's Takurou Fujii who recorded a time of 52.78.
In a tightly contested 100m free-style race, Le Clos grabbed the bronze medal clocking 47.48 behind Australia's Kyle Richardson in 47.31 and Japan's Kenta Ito in 47.37.
Le Clos will be in action in the 200m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley races on Sunday.
This will be the final day of the Fina/Arena Swimming World Cup where the winner will claim the $100 000 (approximately R800 000) grand prize, with $50 000 on offer for second and $30 000 for an overall third-place finish.
La Clos is the most likely candidate to walk away with the grand prize as he was 70 league points clear of Japan's Hidemasa Sano after Saturday's races.
Meanwhile, Ian Thorpe's comeback bid continued to stutter, as he failed to reach the final of the 100m freestyle.
RESULTS
Men's 100m freestyle
1. Kyle Richardson (AUS) 47.31
2. Kenta Ito (JPN) 47.37
3. Men's Chad le Clos (RSA) 47.48
Men's 400m freestyle
1. Robert Hurley (AUS) 3:42.44
2. Shogo Hihara (JPN) 3:43.55
3. Yohei Takiguchi (JPN) 3:44.42
Men's 100m backstroke
1. Junya Koga (JPN) 51.21
2. Takeshi Kawamoto (JPN) 51.89
3. Yuki Shirai (JPN) 51.90
Men's 50m breaststroke
1. Christian Sprenger (AUS) 26.54
2. Ryo Tateishi (JPN) 26.66
3. Yuki Okajima (JPN) 26.90
Men's 200m breaststroke
1. Ryo Tateishi (JPN) 2:03.49
2. Naoya Tomita (JPN) 2:04.51
3. Marco Koch (GER) 2:04.52
Men's 50m butterfly
1. Ryo Takayasu (JPN) 22.68
2. Hiroki Kato (JPN) 22.97
3. Kohei Kawamoto (JPN) 23.02
Men's 200m butterfly
1. Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) 1:49.50
2. Men's Chad le Clos (RSA) 1:51.00
3. Kazuya Kaneda (JPN) 1:51.05
Men's 100m individual medley
1. Takuro Fujii (JPN) 52.78
2. Men's Chad le Clos (RSA) 53.33
3. Masafumi Yamaguchi (JPN) 53.55
Men's 400m individual medley
1. Daiya Seto (JPN) 4:02.44
2. Kosuke Hagino (JPN) 4:03.59
3. Markus Rogan (AUT) 4:06.84
Women's 50m freestyle
1. Cate Campbell (AUS) 23.93
2. Olivia Halicek (AUS) 24.17
3. Therese Alshammar (SWE) 24.30
Women's 200m freestyle
1. Haruka Ueda (JPN) 1:53.77
2. Hanae Ito (JPN) 1:54.58
3. Blair Evans (AUS) 1:55.19
Women's 800m freestyle
1. Ren Luomeng (CHN) 8:22.59
2. Emu Higuchi (JPN) 8:24.05
3. Asami Chida (JPN) 8:24.99
Women's 50m backstroke
1. Aya Terakawa (JPN) 26.44
2. Zhao Jing (CHN) 26.53
3. Rachel Goh (AUS) 26.64
Women's 200m backstroke
1. Melissa Ingram (NZL) 2:03.39
2. Sayaka Akase (JPN) 2:04.67
3. Marie Kamimura (JPN) 2:05.12
Women's 100m breaststroke
1. Kim Hye-Jin (KOR) 1:05.37
2. Leiston Pickett (AUS) 1:05.41
3. Kanako Watanabe (JPN) 1:05.69
Women's 100m butterfly
1. Therese Alshammar (SWE) 55.95
2. Yuka Kato (JPN) 56.37
3. Lisbeth Trickett (AUS) 58.23
Women's 200m individual medley
1. Choi Hye-Ra (KOR) 2:07.23
2. Tomoyo Fukuda (JPN) 2:09.00
3. Emu Higuchi (JPN) 2:09.87