# Swimming: Twenty-two-year-old Pieter Coetzé has become the fifth South African to win the Swimming World Cup title. He clinched the overall title with 172.9 points across the three World Cup legs in Baku, Tashkent and Astana, where he took home ten medals, including a 50-metre backstroke world record. Coetzé has pocketed a career-high of around 1.6-million-rand for the overall title and two Triple Crown bonuses of about 165-thousand-rand each, after winning gold in the 100 and 200 metres backstroke at all three legs of the World Cup.
Swimming: Pieter Coetzé is the fifth South African to win the Swimming World Cup title