Africa at the age of nine, where he met Le Clos's mother, Geraldine, who is of South African descent. He attended Westville Boys' High School in Durban, South Africa, the school named their main pool after him, matriculating in 2010. He started competing when he was ten years old, after first joining a local swim club based in Durban, named the Seagulls Swimming Club, when he was eight years old. He has a younger brother, Jordan, who is also a competitive swimmer. 2010–2011 2010 Commonwealth Games At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India in October, Le Clos collected two gold medals, one silver medal, and two bronze medals. On the first day of the swimming competition, he won the gold medal and Commonwealth title in the 200-metre butterfly with a Games record time of 1:56.48. His medal was the first medal for South Africa at the 2010 Commonwealth Games as well as his first medal at a Commonwealth Games. The same day, he contributed a split of 50.15 seconds for the third leg of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay in the preliminary heats and won a bronze medal when the finals relay placed third in 3:15.21. Two days later, as part of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay, Le Clos won his third medal, a bronze medal, helping achieve a third-place finish in the final with a 7:14.18 after helping qualify the relay to the final in the preliminary heats. The fourth day, he placed 17th in the preliminary heats of the 100-metre butterfly with a time of 56.56 seconds. Later in the day, he won his second gold medal and Commonwealth title of the Games, this time in the 400-metre individual medley, where he set a new Games record with his time of 4:13.25. On day five, he placed fifth in the final of the 200-metre individual medley with a time of 2:00.74. For his final event, the 4×100-metre medley relay, he split a 52.98 for the butterfly leg of the relay in the final to help win the silver medal in a time of 3:36.12. 2010 Short Course World Championships At the World Short Course Championships in Dubai, Le Clos won the gold medal in the 200-metre butterfly. He narrowly beat Brazilian Kaio de Almeida by 0.05 of a second and Hungarian László Cseh, the 2008 Olympic silver medalist, by 0.11 of a second. 2011 Long Course World Championships