World Aquatics Championships: England's Adam Peaty Breaks 100m Breaststroke World Record!

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World Aquatics Championships:
Adam Peaty breaks 100m breaststroke world record

21st July 2019

5 hours ago



British (English) swimmer Adam Peaty has become the first man to swim 100m breaststroke in under 57 seconds - breaking his own world record with a time of 56.88.

The 24-year-old has dominated both the 100m and 50m in recent years, setting the 14 best times in the 100m breaststroke.

Peaty's latest fastest time came in the semi-finals of the World Championships in South Korea.

"There's no other word except for 'incredible'," he said.

He is now unbeaten in five years over the distance in major competitions.

"Obviously I've been chasing that for three years now, ever since I touched that wall in Rio [in 2016] I was like, I could go faster," Peaty added.

The Olympic champion eclipsed his own record by just over two-tenths of a second and won comfortably in the second men's semi-final on day one in Gwangju.

Compatriot James Wilby and Japan's Yasuhiro Koseki finished almost two seconds behind Peaty, with China's Yan Zibei winning the first semi-final in 58.67 to qualify second behind Peaty for Monday's final.

Peaty previously claimed he could break his own 100m world record in South Korea, calling it the "magic 57-second barrier".

"I could blow it away, get near it or be miles off it - but it's looking good," Peaty told BBC Sport.

He recently revealed he practises "active meditation" to aid his mental health after suffering a dip following his gold-medal winning performance in the 100m breaststroke at Rio 2016 and has since backed mental health campaigns.

Peaty will attempt to retain his Olympic title in the 100m breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/49063775

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Adam George Peaty, MBE (born 28 December 1994) is a British competitive swimmer from England who specialises in breaststroke. He has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, FINA World Championships, and European Championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games. He won the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke at the 2016 Olympics, the first by a male British Swimmer in 24 years. He is the current holder of the world record in 50 and 100m breaststroke.





Full name: Adam George Peaty
National team: Great Britain / England
Born: 28th December 1994 (age 24) Uttoxeter, England
Height: 6' 3" (1.91m)
Weight: 13 stone and 5 pounds (86kg)
Sport: Swimming
Club: Loughborough University
Coach: Mel Marshall



Peaty is the 2016 Olympic Champion, a five-time World Champion, a twelve-time European Champion and a three-time Commonwealth Champion. He has broken world records 10 times and currently holds two world records in the 50 and 100 metre breaststroke events becoming the first man to swim under 26 seconds for the 50 metre breaststroke and the first to swim the 100 metre breaststroke under both 58 and 57 seconds.

He is the first swimmer ever to win both sprint breaststroke events at the same World championships, and the most successful British swimmer in a single World Championships. He is one of only three British swimmers, with David Wilkie and Rebecca Adlington, to have won gold medals at all four major international events (Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games), and the only swimmer to win all four major gold medals in the same single event at the same time, a feat he completed in winning the 100 metres breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Peaty is a five-time European swimmer of the year which he has won consecutively from 2014 to 2018, and also a two-time World swimmer of the year in 2015 and 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Peaty

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