Pieter Coetze breaks 50m backstroke world record with 22.09 in Tashkent
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South African Pieter Coetze, 22, swam 22.09 on Friday in Tashkent to take the 50m backstroke world record from Russia’s Kliment Kolesnikov’s 22.11 (2022). He is the only current African swimming world record holder. Egor Kornev was second in 22.29; Coetze also beat Kornev’s 22.23 World Cup mark from Baku, cutting his own 22.51 there by nearly half a second in about six days.
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