South Africaˇ¦s Chad le Clos and Russiaˇ¦s Yulia Efimova were
honoured on 4 September as the best swimmers of the FINA Moscow
meet, with Le Clos now in possession of nine gold, two silver
and one bronze in the Swimming World Cup series 2016 at the end
of Cluster 1 (Paris, Berlin, Moscow).
Although Le Clos won the Moscow competition, Morozov was awarded
US$50,000 as overall male winner of Cluster 1.
He was runner-up to Le Clos in 2013. ˇ§Now Iˇ¦m in the lead with
some advantage,ˇ¨ he said. ˇ§But Chad has a great potential. He is
able to beat his fly records.ˇ¨
South Africaˇ¦s Cameron van der Burgh scooped his eighth gold
medal for Cluster 1, winning the menˇ¦s 100-m breaststroke event
in 56.64.
Itˇ¦s been an awesome effort by Van der Burgh and Le Clos,
dominating the first three legs of the Final World Cup Series ˇK
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