At the Tashkent stop of the 2026 Swimming World Cup, Pieter Coetze won the stop rankings with 58.7 points, took $22,000 in prize money, and broke the men’s 50 backstroke world record, ahead of Egor Kornev’s 57.4; Kornev added a $10,000 world-record bonus for the men’s 50 fly. Marrit Steenbergen led