Adam Peaty

Adam Peaty
Peaty at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Surname:	Adam Peaty
Nation:	United Kingdom
Swimming style (s) :	chest
Birthday:	December 28, 1994
Place of birth:	Uttoxeter
Size:	1.91 m
Weight:	86 kg
Medal table

Adam Peaty , MBE (born December 28, 1994 in Uttoxeter , Staffordshire ) is a British breaststroke swimmer . He is the 2016 Olympic champion over 100 meters and three-time world champion over 50 and 100 meters. Peaty also holds the world records over 50 and 100 meters on the long track.

successes

Peaty, who competes for the City of Derby Sports Club , is trained by Melanie Marshall .

He set world records over 50 m breaststroke (semifinals 26.62 s, final run 27.00) and in the mixed layer relay (3: 44.02 min) together with Chris Walker-Hebborn , Jemma Lowe and Francesca Halsall at the 2014 European Championships in Velodrome in Berlin. He undercut the sound barrier of 58 seconds over 100 m with 57.92 s on April 17, 2015 at the British Championships in London. On the two chest courses, he replaced the South African Cameron van der Burgh as the record holder , but he remained the fastest on the short course. At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan , he won the 100 m breaststroke in 58.52 s ahead of South African Cameron van der Burgh (58.59) and his compatriot Ross Murdoch (59.09 s). Over 50 m he not only won gold in 26.51 s, but also regained the world record temporarily set by van der Burgh in the intermediate run. Van der Burgh finished second with 26.66 s.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he improved his world record over 100 m to 57.55 s. In the final he beat this time again and won the gold medal with 57.13 s. In the final of the 100 m breaststroke as part of the European Championships 2018 , he won the gold medal with a time of 57.10 s and improved his own world record.

Awards

• 2018: World Swimmer of the Year
• 2014–2018: European Swimmer of the Year

See also

• List of swimming world records over 50 meters chest
• List of swimming world records over 100 meters chest
• List of swimming world records over 4 × 100 meters

Web links

Commons : Adam Peaty  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Adam Peaty on swimming.org
• Short profile and results at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The attack screwed up, but still a world record , Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 22, 2014, accessed on April 28, 2015
2. ↑ Breaststroke Peaty with first world record in Rio ( Memento from August 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) shz.de, accessed on August 6, 2016
3. ↑ Results on rio2016.com, accessed August 8, 2016
4. ↑ Measurement error | Corrected Peaty's world record to 57.10 seconds . In: swim.de . August 5, 2018 ( swim.de [accessed on September 22, 2018]).