Cameron Van Der Burgh Breaks World Record - 100m Breaststroke | London 2012 Olympics

South Africa's Cameron Van Der Burgh sets a new world record of 58.46 as he wins the gold medal in the men's 100m breaststroke event at the London 2012 Olympic Games (29 July). Australia's Christian Spenger and the USA's Brendan Hansen won the silver and bronze medals at the event held in the aquatics centre. Subscribe to the Olympic channel: http://bit.ly/1dn6AV5 Swimming has featured on the programme of all editions of the Games since 1896. The very first Olympic events were freestyle (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904. In the 1940s, breaststrokers discovered that they could go faster by bringing both arms forward over their heads. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststroke, but gave birth to butterfly, whose first official appearance was at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. This style is now one of the four strokes used in competition. Women's swimming became Olympic in 1912 at the Stockholm Games. Since then, it has been part of every edition of the Games. The men's and women's programmes are almost identical, as they contain the same number of events, with only one difference: the freestyle distance is 800 metres for women and 1,500 metres for men. Find more about Swimming at http://www.olympic.org/swimming

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1. 北島が選考会の泳ぎを出せていればメダル取れていたんだけどなぁ。悔しい
2. i love swimming
3. and then this kid Peaty came...
4. breastroke is a waste of energy! throw in some dolphin kick... way more fun to swim!
5. I didn't even notice the titel says 'wold' instead of 'world' 😂
6. HE CHEATED
7. What a wonderful feeling it must be
8. He probably got the WR because he cheated off the dive
9. He used three dolphin kicks you're only supposed to use one
10. You can see clearly that he took 3 dolphin kicks ..
11. 5:07 only he did so many dophin kicks....
12. 3:32 Ван Дер Бург пидарас!!!
13. He doesn't hold it anymore he did 3 butterfly kicks off the wall
14. "Wold record"
15. Correct me if I'm wrong but will a World Record time not always also be you personal best?
16. Collapse over sandwich anything honor perfectly stuff.
17. Sometimes I feel like they move the world record line extremely fast so that the swimmers can't reach it
18. Hansen must feel good for stealing the bronze from Kitajima. They've been long rivals!
19. They spelled World wrongly.
20. Van Dern Burgh?