2 August 2025 – 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 semifinal on Saturday. 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 (24.1... Read More

1 August 2025 – The South African flag was raised twice more at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Friday as Pieter Coetze claimed silver in the 200m backstroke and Kaylene Corbett a bronze in the 200m breaststroke. After his victory in the 100m backstroke on Tuesday, Coetze lined up among the favourites, having qualified fastest for the final of the 200m event with a new African record in the semifinals. The Pretoria swimmer went out hard in the final, turning first at both the 50 and 100m marks under worl... Read More

31 July 2025 – Pretoria teammates Pieter Coetzé and Kaylene Corbett both safely negotiated semifinal swims at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Thursday. Coetzé will be looking to add to his 100m backstroke gold when he lines up for the final of the 200m event. Having scraped through to the semifinals earlier in the day as the 16th fastest qualifier in 1:57.11, the 21-year-old put any doubts to rest in his evening swim. He stormed to victory in the first semifinal, taking out the first 50m under worl... Read More

30 July – Chris Smith was the sole South African in action during the evening session at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Wednesday, having earned a place in his first-ever global long course final. In a nail-bitingly close 50m breaststroke showdown, where just 0.21 of a second separated the top six finishers, Smith didn't get the speediest of starts and was forced to chase from the outset. The 19-year-old ultimately touched the wall in sixth place, clocking a time of 26.75 seconds. That shaved a further two-hu... Read More

29 July 2025 – Pieter Coetzé powered his way to South Africa's first medal of the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, claiming gold in the 100m backstroke on Tuesday. The 21-year-old was third fastest in the semifinals but outduelled Olympic champion Thomas Ceccon and France's Yohann Ndoye-Brouard in the second half of the final to reach the wall in a sensationally quick new African record time of 51.85 seconds, just .25 of a second off Ceccon's world record. The Italian was second in 51.90 seconds, with ... Read More