{"id":8181,"date":"2013-07-31T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T07:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2013-07-31T07:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T07:58:29","slug":"van-der-burgh-zorzi-qualify-for-50m-breaststroke-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8181","title":{"rendered":"Van der Burgh, Zorzi qualify for 50m breaststroke final"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"alt_content_blurb\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_8182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8182\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cameronswim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8182\" alt=\"Van der Burgh at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cameronswim.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cameronswim.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cameronswim-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van der Burgh qualifies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cameron van der Burgh and team-mate Giulio Zorzi have qualified for the men&#8217;s 50m breaststroke final at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"content_body group\">\n<div id=\"body_content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Van der Burgh led the qualifiers into Wednesday&#8217;s final with a time of 26.81 seconds. Zorzi managed 27.44, keeping out Brazilian Felipe Lima, who won bronze in the 100m breaststroke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 25-year-old Van der Burgh was happy that two South African swimmers advanced to the final. &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy for Giulio who is swimming at his first world championships and I wish him well,&#8221; Van der Burgh said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll pass on my experiences to help him pull through for tomorrow. Tomorrow anything can happen from any lane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Van der Burgh, who won the silver medal in the 100m breaststroke on Monday, said he was better equipped for the 50m breaststroke event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Sometimes you focus too much on the world record or a gold medal and then it doesn&#8217;t happen. I&#8217;ll just focus on what I can control which is the swim. The 50m is better suited to the skills I have and the training I have done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zorzi, who would be swimming in his first final at a major championship, said he was happy with his performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I felt really good in the warm-up and had a great start, but in the race there were one or two things that didn&#8217;t go well and I&#8217;ll correct them for tomorrow,&#8221; he said. \u2013 Sapa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron van der Burgh and team-mate Giulio Zorzi have qualified for the men&#8217;s 50m breaststroke final at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona. Van der Burgh led the qualifiers into Wednesday&#8217;s final with a time of 26.81 seconds. Zorzi managed 27.44, keeping out Brazilian Felipe Lima, who won bronze in the 100m breaststroke. The 25-year-old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Van der Burgh, Zorzi qualify for 50m breaststroke final&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,700],"tags":[4521,4522,4520,4523],"class_list":["post-8181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport-news","tag-cameron-van-der-burgh","tag-guilio-zorzi","tag-south-african-swimmers","tag-world-swimming-championships-in-barcelona"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cameronswim.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8184,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions\/8184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}