South African Pieter Coetze set a new world record in the 50 m backstroke at the World Aquatics World Cup in Tashkent on Friday, swimming 22.09 and beating Kliment Kolesnikov’s 22.11 from 2022. The 22-year-old also broke the World Cup record (22.23) and improved by about 0.42 seconds on his 22.51 from Baku a week earlier. Egor Kornev was second in 22.29. Coetze is the only African swimmer cu