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Matt Sates provided one final highlight on the last night of action at the SA Swimming Championships at the Newton Park indoor swimming centre on Monday.
He added another World Championships and Commonwealth Games qualifying time to his collection.
Having already dipped under the required mark in the morning heats, the Maritzburg teenager went even quicker in the 200m individual medley final, reaching the wall in 1:58.37 to beat visiting British swimmer Max Litchfield (1:59.96).
With that, 18-year-old Sates also secured his fourth gold medal of the championships after taking victory in the 100, 200 and 400m freestyle.
Looking back at his week of racing in which he achieved qualifying time in two events, Sates added: “I’m very happy with it. Coming back from America and getting back into long course, it’s all a work in progress.”
Earlier in the day fellow teenage Olympian Pieter Coetzé swam a 200m backstroke time trial to try and achieve his fourth qualifying time of the championships and dipped well under the mark, finishing in 1:56.92.
Full list of qualifiers for the Commonwealth Games and World Championships
Women
Aimee Canny (200m freestyle)
Emma Chelius (50m freestyle)
Kaylene Corbett (200m breaststroke)
Tatjana Schoenmaker (50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke)
Lara van Niekerk (50m and 100m breaststroke)
Men
Pieter Coetzé (50m, 100m 200m backstroke, 50m freestyle)
Michael Houlie (50m breaststroke)
Chad le Clos (100m, 200m butterfly)
Matt Sates (200m freestyle, 200m individual medley)
