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