Tashkent marks world record No. 199 in a Myrtha pool
South Africa’s Pieter Coetze set a new world record of 22.09 to win the men’s 50m backstroke in Tashkent on Friday. The 22-year-old improved on the previous mark of 22.11, set by Russia’s Kliment Kolesnikov in 2022, bringing the total number of world records set in Myrtha pools to 199.
