
Pieter Coetzé will have one last shot at adding to his already impressive medal haul at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore after winning his 50m backstroke semi-final.
The 21-year-old, who already has 100m backstroke gold and 200m backstroke silver in the bag, will line up for the final of the 50m event on Sunday.
Coetzé blasted to victory in his semifinal in a time of 24.32 seconds to qualify third fastest for the final behind world record-holder Kliment Kolesnikov (24.16) and Pavel Samusenko (24.31). That saw him breaking former world champion Gerhard Zandberg’s long-standing South African and African record, set in Rome 16 years ago.
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