2019 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- All sports: Friday, July 12 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- Pool swimming: Sunday, July 21 – Sunday, July 28, 2019
- The Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center, Gwangju, Korea
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- Results
After posting a very fast yet seemingly relaxed 57.59 in the morning prelims of the 100 breaststroke, Adam Peaty unleashed an incredible 56.88 in the second semifinal heat to shave fully 22/100ths from his previous World Record of 57.10, set in 2018 at the European Championships.
The British breaststroke icon has been redefining the limits of the stroke ever since 2015 when he became the first man under 58 in the 100 breast with a 57.92.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Peaty won the gold medal in an otherworldly 57.13, which stood for two years before he bested it in 2018. Now, with a 56.88 to his name, Peaty has completed “Project 56,” which he first mentioned in 2017 in the lead up to the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Now, Peaty is both the only swimmer to break 58 and 57 in the 100 meter breaststroke.
Skip ahead to 7:50 if you only want to see Peaty’s race.
A comparison of Peaty’s splits from the 2018 European Championships and today’s 2019 World Championships reveals Peaty has improved both front-end and closing speed.
| PEATY, 2018 EUROS | PEATY, 2019 WORLDS |
| 26.75 | 26.63 |
| 30.35 | 30.25 |
| 57.10 | 56.88 |
Peaty now owns the 16 fastest swims in history in the event, and 18 of the top-20.
MEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE, ALL-TIME PERFORMANCES
- Adam Peaty, 56.88
- Adam Peaty, 57.10
- Adam Peaty, 57.13
- Adam Peaty, 57.47
- Adam Peaty, 57.55
- Adam Peaty, 57.59
- Adam Peaty, 57.62
- Adam Peaty, 57.75
- Adam Peaty, 57.79
- Adam Peaty, 57.87
- Adam Peaty, 57.89
- Adam Peaty, 57.92
- Adam Peaty, 58.04
- Adam Peaty, 58.15
- Adam Peaty, 58.18
- Adam Peaty, 58.21
- Ilya Shymanovich, 58.29
- Adam Peaty, 58.36
- Adam Peaty, 58.41
- Cameron van der Burgh, 58.46
TOP 8 QUALIFIERS TO FINAL (7/22/2019)
- Adam Peaty, Great Britain, 56.88 — WORLD RECORD, Championship Record
- Yan Zibei, China, 58.67 — Asian Record, Chinese Record
- James Wilby, Great Britain, 58.83
- Yasuhiro Koseki, Japan, 58.89
- Andrew Wilson, United States, 58.95
- Dmitriy Balandin, Kazakhstan, 59.03
- Anton Chupkov, Russia, 59.15
- Kirill Prigoda, Russia, 59.21
Impressive athlete! He’s evolving the stroke to be essentially butterfly with one dolphin kick per cycle with feet slightly pointing outwards, plus a fly pull cut short by half with underwater recovery. Q is, is this truly breast now?
Peaty gave an interview where he referred to his 26.6 first 50 as “see, not even that fast”… The guy is on another planet loooool… Think we might see him rip it tomorrow, fly & die – Out in 26.0 and see what you got. Project 56 off his back, why the hell not.
USA Medley relay is gonna be in trouble at 2020 olympics
Yeahhh. If our breastroker loses like 3 seconds to Peaty that makes it pretty hard to win. USA needs at least a sub 59 Br split to have a chance. Preferably down towards a sub 58.5 split.
And if the UK can find a reliable sub 53 backstroke split? It’s game over.
the all time performances list just made my jaw drop. i did not know he had that many. “complete ruthless dominance” might be an understatement
His stroke is a thing of beauty. Notice in the recovery forward – how his arms seem to literally slice through the water, & how he just keeps moving forward. Very efficient!
Reposted (from myself), but I thought this is amazing and puts into context how good Peaty is:
I went back and found the largest margin of victory for every 100m men’s race at the World Championships in each stroke:
Backstroke: 1.30 sec (Rolland Matthes 1973, 57.47)
Breastroke: 1.32 sec (Adam Peaty 2017, 57.47 — same time, spooky!)
Butterfly: 1.25 sec (Ian Crocker 2005, 50.40 — beat MP in this race too!
Freestyle: 0.70 sec (Dressel 2017, 47.17 — freestyle winning times are slightly smaller)
Peaty ALREADY holds the record for largest margin of victory. He’s poised to destroy it. What he’s doing is unprecedented. World records are a fact of the sport, but Peaty is showing… Read more »
And Crocker with a Dressel start + suit would be 49.5
Peaty is 2.5+% better than the next best swimmer. When was the last time that happened? That would be like Ledecky setting a record of 3:49 in the 400 free in comparison to Titmus’s 3:58.xy, or Sjöström at around 53.7 in comparison to the rest of the field.
Ledecky in the 1500 at 2015 Worlds won by 30 seconds. It was about a 3.2% difference.
If Wikipedia is correct, she actually won by a little less than 15 secs, which is about 1.6%
Imagine destroying a world class field in the 100m backstroke only to have someone swim the same time in breastroke…..
Imagine owning 16 of the fastest times ever. My goodness
When did Ilya Shymanovich go 58.29?
Back in late March.
https://swimswam.com/shymanovich-scorches-58-29-1breast-2-performer-all-time/