World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Tashkent 2026: Day 1 - CBC

Rights-free content from the Swimming World Cup is available to download from the World Aquatics Media Pool Steenbergen strengthens her lead with European Record Marrit Steenbergen continued her outstanding Swimming World Cup campaign with a dominant victory in the women's 100m Freestyle, setting a European Record of 50.32 to claim her first gold medal of the Tashkent stop.

The final day of the Tashkent, Uzbekistan stop of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup is underway, and the highlight of the day is expected to be the men’s 100 backstroke final. There, South African Pieter Coetze is chasing more history after setting a World Record in the 50 meter backstroke on Friday. He dropped more than four tenths of a second between his swim in Baku and Tashkent in the 50; the transitive property of swimming then puts him within striking distance of the record in this 100 meter race as well.

The first two stops of the World Cup circuit have been good to Russia’s Egor Kornev, who established his second world record during Saturday action in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. One week after he tied the world record in the 100-meter freestyle, Kornev blasted a time of 21.28 in the 50 butterfly. That performance cut .04 off the previous world record, the 21.32 set by Switzerland’s Noe Ponti in 2024. At the opening leg of the World Cup tour in Baku, Azerbaijan, Kornev clocked 44.84 in the 100 freestyle to equal the 2021 record of Australian Kyle Chalmers. This time around, the Russian didn’t have to share a record, and he moved to No. 1 all-time with a massive personal best. Kornev entered Saturday night with a top time of 21.64, which was good for the Russian record. But in the final in Tashkent, he dropped a huge .36 to knock Ponti off the event’s pedestal.

Rights-free content from the Swimming World Cup is available to download from the World Aquatics Media Pool The Swimming World Cup 2026 Silk Road Tour continued on Thursday evening in Uzbekistan with some of the world’s best putting on a scintillating show for the crowd at the Palace of Water Sports within Tashkent's Olympic City complex.