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Swimming: South African Pieter Coetze wins 2026 World Cup

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South African swimmer Pieter Coetze won the overall 2026 Swimming World Cup standings with 172.9 points. He sealed his victory by winning all three backstroke events at the final stop in Astana, Kazakhstan, according to results from World Aquatics.

South African Pieter Coetze, 22, won the men’s overall title in the 2026 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup after winning all three backstroke events at the final stop in Astana, Kazakhstan, reports the Sunday Express.

Coetze finished the three-leg series with 172.9 points, ahead of Russia’s Egor Kornev (170.7) and Belgium’s Lucas Henveaux (164.1). In Astana, he won the 100m backstroke in 48.40 seconds, the 200m in 1 minute 48.08 seconds, and then the 50m in 22.36 seconds, according to the Sunday Express.

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