Chad le Clos ya lashe zinar Olympic ga Afirka ta Kudu a mita 200 butterfly na maza a ranar 31 ga Yuli 2012 a London. An haife shi a Durban a 1992, don haka yana da shekara 20. Sakamakon ya fara babin Olympic cikin aikin da ya riga ya samu matsayi a ninkaya.
World Aquatics ta rubuta zinarsa ta mita 200 butterfly a Gasar Ninkaya ta Duniya ta 2010 a Dubai. An yi gasar a tafkin mita 25. Olympedia ta kuma lissafa lambobin yabo biyar a Youth Olympics na 2010 a Singapore, ciki har da zinar mita 200 individual medley.
London ta kawo wani matsayi a dandalin yabo ranar 3 ga Agusta 2012, lokacin da le Clos ya samu azurfar mita 100 butterfly. Lambobin biyu sun fito daga nisa daban cikin salon guda. Sun faɗaɗa nasarar London fiye da ƙarshe ɗaya, ba tare da ikirarin cewa ya lashe duka biyun ba.
Ya biyo baya da zinare biyu na butterfly a Gasar Duniya ta 2013 a Barcelona, a mita 100 da 200. A Kazan a 2015, ya sake lashe mita 100 kuma ya samu azurfar mita 200. Wannan ya ci gaba da nasararsa bayan kakar Olympic guda.
A Rio 2016, le Clos ya samu azurfa a mita 200 freestyle da mita 100 butterfly. Lambar freestyle ta ƙara wani salon ninkaya a tarihin Olympics ɗinsa. Waɗannan takamaiman sakamakon wasannin ne, ba jimillar dukan aikinsa da aka faɗaɗa zuwa yanzu ba.
World Aquatics ta kuma rubuta taken duniya na mita 200 butterfly a Budapest ranar 26 ga Yuli 2017. Ranakun tare sun nuna nasara mai maimaituwa a manyan gasanni. London 2012 ita ce zinarsa ta Olympics, sauran sakamakon kuma suna bayyana zurfin ƙwarewar ɗan ninkayan Afirka ta Kudu.