When Pieter Coetze, the 6ft 6 (197cm) South African, set his seventh African record today, it took him to a new level: in 22.09 a class apart in the 50m backstroke on day 2 at the Tashkent round of the short-course World Cup, also landed the first World record of his career.

The standard had stood at 22.11 since November 2022, to Kliment Koleshnikov, sixth today in Tashkent on 22.88 as the last of the 900-point-plus finishers.

Second at the turn to Egor Kornev (10.84), Coetze, the African standard bearer in the 100m backstroke both long- and short-course, broke his own African mark of 22.84 from four years ago by going out in 10.92, thundering home in 11.17, for his 1002-points 22.09. Kornev was closest, 0.2sec adrift.

Men's 100m Freestyle: Another Snap - McEvoy & Kornev On 45.24 Way Out Ahead

Just two men topped the 900-point mark, and then by some. Egor Kornev matched the World record last week in Baku, but today he was 0.4sec slower, while the Australian who won the 50m dash in both Baku and Tashkent, was 0.12sec faster than the best time he set in that same Baku race for second.

McEvoy was out a fraction faster today, Kornev a touch slower out, home faster than the Australian but not by enough to beat him:

• McEvoy: 21.42/23.82
• Kornev: 21.68/23.56

That gave them both 973 points, no others over 900:

More Wins For Haughey and Steenbergen As the Sole 900-plus-point scorers in their finals

Women's 200m freestyle - Hong Kong's Siobhan Haughey controlled the pace from block to pad, the clock stopped at 1:51.02 (955):

Just 0.14sec ahead of Britain's Freya Colbert, Anna Peplowski was back just 15 minutes later for a second top 3 finish, as third home on backstroke:

Women's 100m backstroke - Marritt Steenbergen, of The Netherlands, is on course to extend her world-cup points lead on the women's side. She led the whole way to a 55.32 win more than a second ahead of Taylor Ruck, of Canada, who was in turn a second ahead of Peplowski:

Men's 200m medley - Teammates Casas & Foster Keep Knock At Bay - Just...

USA and Texas teammates Shaine Casas and Carson Foster trailed a third American, Luke Barr to the 150m mark before overhauling him on freestyle. Canadian Finlay Knox stayed in a steady third place contention from the 100m mark onwards on his way to bronze. The last man home over the 900-point mark was Italian Alberto Razzetti, Barr just shy:

Men's 50m breaststroke - Houli On High

South Africa had a second dash winner on the day, Michael Houli on 25.67 (918) ahead of Kirill Prigoda, 25.82 (902), Dutch sprinter Caspar Corbeau on 25.92.

Women's 100m breaststroke - McSharry Leads From Half-Way Top Home

Ireland's Olympic medallist Mona McSharry took the race in 1:04.25, after taking the lead down the second of the four lengths and holding on as 200m specialist Evgenia Chikunova moved up from sixth to second over the second half of battle to also scrape past the 900-point mark:

Men's 200m butterfly - Juner Pips Ogata

Chen Juner, of China, broke the 1:50 mark to take the win by 0.31sec ahead of Japan's So Ogata, those two the sole 900-point plus swims, Alberto Razzetti, of Italy making his second top 3 of the day:

No other finals breached 900.

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