Adam Peaty

Adam Peaty
OBE
Peaty after winning the Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full nameAdam George Peaty[2]
National teamGreat Britain
England
Born (1994-12-28) 28 December 1994 (age 29)
Uttoxeter, England, UK
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[3]
Weight95 kg (14 st 13 lb)[4]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke
ClubLoughborough University London Roar
CoachMel Marshall[1]
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 3 0
World Championships (LC) 8 1 3
World Championships (SC) 0 3 1
European Championships (LC) 16 0 0
European Championships (SC) 1 2 1
Commonwealth Games 4 3 0
Total 32 12 5
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris 100 m breaststroke
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2015 Kazan 50 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2015 Kazan 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2015 Kazan 4×100 m mixed medley
Gold medal – first place 2017 Budapest 50 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2017 Budapest 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2019 Gwangju 50 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2019 Gwangju 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2019 Gwangju 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2017 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Gwangju 4×100 m mixed medley
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Doha 100 m breaststroke
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Doha 4×100 m mixed medley
World Championships (SC)
Silver medal – second place 2014 Doha 50 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2014 Doha 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2014 Doha 4×50 m mixed medley
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Melbourne 100 m breaststroke
European Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2014 Berlin 50 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2014 Berlin 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2014 Berlin 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2014 Berlin 4×100 m mixed medley
Gold medal – first place 2016 London 50 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2016 London 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2016 London 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2016 London 4×100 m mixed medley
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow 50 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow 4×100 m mixed medley
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow 4x100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2020 Budapest 50m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2020 Budapest 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2020 Budapest 4×100 m mixed medley
Gold medal – first place 2020 Budapest 4×100 m medley
European Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2017 Copenhagen 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2015 Netanya 50 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2015 Netanya 100 m breaststroke
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Copenhagen 50 m breaststroke
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 50 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow 50 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast 50 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast 4x100 m medley

Adam George Peaty OBE (born 28 December 1994) is an English competitive swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke. He won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first by a male British swimmer in 24 years, and retained the title at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, the first British swimmer ever to retain an Olympic title.

He is also an eight-time World Champion, a sixteen-time European Champion and a four-time Commonwealth Champion. According to FINA itself, Peaty is widely regarded as the dominant breaststroke swimmer of his era, and the most dominant sprint breaststroke swimmer of all time.[5]

Peaty is the holder of the world record in 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events. He has broken 14 world records, 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.

Peaty is one of only six British swimmers, with David Wilkie, Rebecca Adlington, James Guy, Duncan Scott, and Tom Dean to have won gold medals at all four major international events (Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games), and with David Wilkie the only swimmers to hold all four major gold medals in the same single event at the same time, a feat he completed in winning the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Olympics, and which he uniquely maintained through the 2020 Olympics. Peaty is a six-time European swimmer of the year which he has won consecutively from 2014 to 2019, and also a two-time World swimmer of the year in 2015 and 2018.

  1. ^ "Mel Marshall is Coach of The Year After Stellar Season For Her & Adam Peaty". Swim Vortex. Archived from the original on 21 February 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Adam Peaty". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Adam Peaty". FINA.
  4. ^ Felstead, Scott (25 June 2020). "Olympic gold medalist swimmer Adam Peaty talks training and nutrition". Muscle & Fitness.
  5. ^ "Peaty's Dominance | His standard of excellence from the 100m Breaststroke world record holder". 25 March 2022.