South African swimmer

Chad le Clos

Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos, OIS is a South African competitive swimmer who is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games champion. He is the African record, Commonwealth record, and South African record holder in the short course and long course 200-metre butterfly and the short course 100-metre butterfly. He also holds African and South African records in the long course 200-metre freestyle and 100-metre butterfly, as well as the short course 100-metre freestyle. Formerly, he was a world record holder in the short course 100-metre butterfly and 200-metre butterfly.

Born

1992

April 12

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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Chad, in brief

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Life timeline

Key dates

1992 Born

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627 King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to Christianity by Paulinus, Bishop of York.
806 Nikephoros I of Constantinople is consecrated as patriarch of Constantinople.

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The world in 1992

When Chad arrived

april 12 The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Resort Paris.
april 17 The Katina P is deliberately run aground off Maputo, Mozambique, and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
april 2 In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
april 2 Forty-two civilians are massacred in the town of Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Michael Jackson 1969–2007 American football player and politician (died 2017) Art Alexakis 1962– American singer-songwriter and musician Brooklyn Decker 1987– American model and actress Flavio Briatore 1950– Italian businessman Henri Désiré Landru 1869– French serial killer (died 1922) Joseph Lanner 1801–1843 Austrian composer and conductor (died 1843) Keiko Fukuda 1913–2013 Japanese-American martial artist (died 2013) Lily Pons 1898–1976 French-American soprano and actress (died 1976) Muhammad al-Jawad 811–835 the ninth Imam of Shia Islam (died 835)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1992

Selena Gomez 1992– American singer and actress Anuel AA 1992– Puerto Rican rapper and singer August Alsina 1992– American singer-songwriter Chiney Ogwumike 1992– American basketball player Danielle Harold 1992– English actress Elizabeth Beisel 1992– American swimmer Enes Kanter 1992– Turkish basketball player Evgeny Kuznetsov 1992– Russian ice hockey player Heather Watson 1992– British tennis player

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