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|July 31, 2025
SOUTH Africa’s young swim sensation Pieter Coetzé’s jitz recent spell in the pool continued with a gold medal in the 100m backstroke final at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Tuesday.
The new world champion stormed to the win, dipping below 52 seconds for the second time in the past two weeks. It was a victory that the Tuks psychology student felt was coming at some stage, though he admitted he didn’t expect it to happen so soon.
This story is from the July 31, 2025 edition of Daily Voice.
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