Sebastien Rousseau last night became the sixth SA swimmer to qualify for the Commonwealth Games at the national championships in Durban, but he still had to play second fiddle to Chad le Clos.
Le Clos - after earlier winning the 100m freestyle crown - beat him in the 400m individual medley to take his title tally to five.
Le Clos clocked 4min 14.81sec, and Rousseau, owner of the 4:11.11 national record, was second in 4:18.17.
Meanwhile Le Clos was chuffed to have survived his toughest day of competition.
"I said from the start that this is the hardest day for me," explained Le Clos, who also had to compete in the 100m butterfly semifinals, where he did enough to qualify for the final.
As expected, Cameron van der Burgh was fastest in the semifinals of the men's 50m breaststroke, touching in 27.05, the second-fastest time in the world this year.
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