Full name Adam Peaty Name Adam Peaty Nationality English, British Coach Mel Marshall Weight 86 kg | Club City of Derby Height 1.91 m National team Great Britain Role Swimmer | |
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Born 28 December 1994 (age 29) ( 1994-12-28 ) Uttoxeter, England Parents Caroline Peaty, Mark Peaty Nominations BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award Similar Tom Daley, James Guy (swimmer), Caeleb Dressel Profiles | ||
New world record adam peaty 100m breaststroke race and reaction
Adam Peaty, MBE (born 28 December 1994) is a British competitive swimmer who specializes in the 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.
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- New world record adam peaty 100m breaststroke race and reaction
- University of derby sportsperson of the year adam peaty
- Early and personal life
- Career
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016 Olympics
- 2017
- References
Peaty is the 2016 Olympic champion, the 2015 and 2017 World champion, the 2014 and 2016 European champion, and 2014 Commonwealth champion in 100 metre breaststroke, the 2015 and 2017 World champion, the 2014 and 2016 European champion in 50 metre breaststroke, part of the Great Britain team that won the mixed medley relay world title, and the world record holder as of 5 August 2015 in all three events. 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.
University of derby sportsperson of the year adam peaty
Early and personal life
Adam Peaty was born on 28 December 1994 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire to Mark and Caroline Peaty, the youngest of four children. He attended Painsley Catholic College and Derby College. As a young boy, he had an acute fear of water and was averse to being put in the bath.
Peaty first joined Dove Valley Swimming Club in Uttoxeter when he was nine, and started to win races and setting club records by the time he was twelve. When he was 14, a friend took Peaty to join City of Derby Swimming Club, but the coach at the club, former Olympic swimmer Melanie Marshall, was not impressed by Peaty's performance in the freestyle and put him in the slow lane with younger girls. However, she noticed "something special" the first time she saw him swim breaststroke. According to Peaty, he did not take swimming seriously until he was 17 – he was preparing for a night out drinking with friends when he read that Craig Benson, whom he knew well from the junior circuit, made the semi-final of the 100m breaststroke at the 2012 London Olympics, and was spurred on to commit fully to swimming and started training full time.
Career
Peaty trained at the City of Derby swimming club, where he was coached by Melanie Marshall. He also trained up to eight times per week at Repton School, a co-educational boarding independent school in the village of Repton in Derbyshire, and two sessions at Loughborough University. He has started to train full time at Loughborough University in 2017.
Peaty's first senior event was the European Short Course Championships, held in Herning, Denmark, where he achieved three personal bests in three events.
2014
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Peaty entered four events: the 50 metre breaststroke, the 100 metre breaststroke, the 200 metre breaststroke, and the 4 × 100 metre medley relay. In the 50 metre breaststroke, Peaty won his semi-final and finished 2nd in the final with a time of 26.78, 0.02 seconds behind South African Cameron van der Burgh. In the 100 metre breaststroke, Peaty finished first, his time of 58.94 was 0.34 seconds faster than Van der Burgh, who came in second. Olympic champion and world record holder Van der Burgh was the favourite to win, but Peaty managed a record time for a British man in the event. In the 200 metre breaststroke, Peaty finished in 4th place, 0.15 seconds off a medal position and 2.72 seconds behind first placed Scotsman Ross Murdoch. The 4 × 100 metre medley relay took place on 29 July 2014. He was mentored by Rebecca Adlington.
At the European Aquatic Championships in August 2014, Peaty took part in the final of the 4 × 100 m Mixed Medley Relay, along with Chris Walker-Hebborn, Jemma Lowe and Francesca Halsall. He touched in a time of 00:59.30 for his 100m Breaststroke leg, and the team achieved the world record pace of 3:44.02. He won four gold medals for Great Britain and setting two world records.
In the 2014 World Short Course Championships, he rounded off his year with three silver medals in 50 metre, 100 metre and 4 x 50 metre mixed relay.
2015
In 2015, his rise continued, breaking the world record for 100 metre breaststroke at the British Championships and World Trials by almost half a second. His time of 57.92 seconds made him the first man to go under 58 seconds for the event. He qualified for all three breaststroke events at the 2015 FINA World Aquatic Championships.
At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, he became a World Champion for the first time. He won gold at the 100 metres breaststroke. Peaty then broke the world records for the 50 metres breaststroke with a time of 26.42 seconds in the semi-final, followed by another win in the final of the event, his second gold of the championship. A previous 50 metre record of 26.62 was not ratified by FINA because of administrative errors in standard post race testing, although it is generally recognised by statisticians. Peaty add a third gold with a win at the 4x100m mixed medley relay.
Peaty was named SwimSwam's 2015 Swammy Award-winner for Male Swimmer of the Year.
2016 Olympics
Peaty only competed in the 100 metres breaststroke in the individual events as the 50 metres breaststroke is not an Olympic event. In the heats of the 100 metres breaststroke in Rio de Janeiro at the 2016 Summer Olympics Peaty broke his own world record with a time of 57.55 seconds.
On 7 August 2016 he won Great Britain's first gold medal of the games in the 100 metres breaststroke and also broke the world record set by himself the previous night, winning with a time of 57.13 seconds. He won a further silver in the 4x100m medley relay with Chris Walker-Hebborn, James Guy and Duncan Scott.
2017
At the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, Peaty retained his 100 metre breaststroke title, winning the race with a championship record of 57.47 seconds.
Peaty also broke his own world record twice in 50 metres breaststroke. He recorded 26.10 seconds in the heats, and in the semi-final, he became to first man to break 26 seconds and won in 25.95 seconds. He successfully defended his 50m breaststroke title with another sub-26 time of 25.99 seconds, completing another double at the World Championship. He won a further silver in the 4x100m medley relay at the World Championship, setting a new British record, with same Olympic line-up of Walker-Hebborn, Guy and Scott.