I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

He is Africa's first home-trained world record holder and individual male Olympic Champion He trains with Dirk Lange and is based in Pretoria. He won the world title in the same year at the Rome championship also in the 50 m breaststroke. Van der Burgh obtained his first world long-course record (27.

06s) in the 50 m breaststroke in the semifinals at South African nationals in April 2009. 12 seconds of Oleg Lisogor's old world record set in 2002.