South Africa's Coetze breaks men's 50m backstroke short-course world record
Oct 9 : South Africa's Pieter Coetze set a 50m backstroke short-course world record on Friday with a time of 22.09 seconds at a World Aquatics World Cup meet in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The previous record of 22.11 was set by Russia's Kliment Kolesnikov in Kazan in 2022. Kolesnikov also holds the long-cou
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- Friday, 9 October 2026, 11:27 pm IST
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