Chad le Clos is a South African competitive swimmer who is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games champion. He won the Guinness World Record for “most gold medals won in the FINA Swimming World Cup by a male swimmer” for the 143 gold medals he won between 2009 and 2018, inclusive. 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 the African records and South African records in the long course 200-metre freestyle and 100-metre butterfly, and the short course 100-metre freestyle. Formerly, he was a world record holder in the short course 100-metre butterfly and 200-metre butterfly. He is the most decorated Commonwealth Games swimmer, with 17 total medals, as well as the first man to win the Commonwealth Games title in the 200-metre butterfly three times in a row.