World Record holder Adam Peaty of Great Britain has his eye on four medals at the 2028 LA Olympics. Peaty also said he has his eye on beating the US on “home turf” in the medley relay.
“We want to beat America on home turf in that medley. We’ve got the incredible Oliver Morgan on backstroke, some very strong times – and that’s always been our weak link at previous Olympics. It’s very exciting,” Peaty told the BBC Radio 5 Live.
Peaty is the World Record holder in the long course meters men’s 50 and 100 breaststroke events. He won silver in the 100 breaststroke last summer at the Paris Olympics in a 59.05, which was off his best time of a 56.88. Shortly after racing in that 100 breast final, Peaty tested positive for COVID-19. He has not competed since last summer’s Paris Olympics but has his sights set on LA gold.
“I’m very excited the 50m has been added but I will do the 100m as well, so that will give me four opportunities to [win a] medal,” Peaty said.
Those four opportunities come from the men’s 50 breaststroke, men’s 100 breaststroke, men’s 4×100 medley relay, and the mixed 4×100 medley relay.
This past April, the 50s of strokes were added to the 2028 LA Olympic schedule. With that announcement, Peaty posted on Instagram “50m Sprint Events have just been added to @la28games which confirms my attempt to be at my Fourth Olympic Games. This is the best result for our incredible sport and will allow more people to be part of it and stay in it much longer. Thank you @world_aquatics for this amazing decision.
I’ve got a good feeling about these next three years 
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He also stated “Huge huge huge news, I’ll be there,” on his Instagram story at the time.
Peaty won the 100 breaststroke at the 2016 Rio Olympics and defended his title at the 2020 Tokyo Games, making him the first British swimmer to defend Olympic gold. In Tokyo, he also helped the team’s 4×100 mixed medley relay to gold in a World Record setting 3:37.58. The men’s 4×100 medley relay swam to silver, finishing behind the US.
whats the chances that his 100 br spot could be taken up by nowacki though? will he likely improve to 56-57 form?
Four medals, not four golds, people can not label Peaty as a loudmouth braggart.
Peaty is meant to dive into 100 breast he’s been shining in and 50 breast recently elevated to OG and readily friendly to senior swimmers like him, both of which he holds WRs of.
Regarding the other moiety, i.e. two relay events, it looks like he set his sights too high to reasonably achieve his goals, given that he’s not supposed to calibrate, or ballpark at least, performances by other legs in a quartet in remote THREE years.
Even at moment, in any stroke, including breast itself, the U.K. ranks distantly from dominance while swimming in a limbo from podium.
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Oh so we are joking now peaty will not win four medals in fact peaty will win 0 golds and prolly like 2 medals
I would take under 2 and not hesitate at all. How many 33 year olds win 2 medals? He’ll be months from 34
How many did Phelps win (even just couting the individuals) in 2016 and what was his age?
Phelps was 31 Rio olympics. Two individual gold and one individual silver medal..
The men’s medley relay will be very exiciting in LA. USA, Great-Britain, France, Russia, Italy, China. All these teams may earn the gold medal.
Oh yeah !
As a frenchman, I hope we’ll have a great freestyler.Fente-Damers should get better or else a new one will appear.
As Chinese people, we are facing a certain crisis in men’s backstroke. Apart from Xu Jiayu, we don’t have a promising young second candidate. By the time of the Los Angeles Olympics, Xu Jiayu will be 33 years old. We hope to use him as little as possible so that he has maximum energy for the finals, but if we don’t use him in the heats, it’s also a big challenge to qualify for the finals smoothly. Qin Haiyang and Pan Zhanle will definitely be competitive enough in Los Angeles, but men’s backstroke and men’s butterfly are issues we need to address at this stage.
I seriously doubt a 33 year old Peaty would medal at all during LA 2028 but I do wish him all the luck in the world. He however needs to look realistically at things. In 3 years many younger breastsrokers will have sprung up and the current young ones will have greatly improved whilst he will have aged more and oxygen capacity will be diminished but hey you never know. Like I said Good Luck! Will be interesting to see.
In the 100, looking at current state of things, I doubt he will need to get down to anywhere near his PB to be in gold medal contention. Going a PB + 1 or even a PB + 1.5 could be enough (unless the Japanese kid continues his current trajectory).
For many, a PB + 1 would put them right out of medal contention, but given Peaty’s time , it should still put him in the mix so then it becomes more of a question of can a 33 year old still swim winthin a second and a half of their PB over 100m which I think is still very plausible assuming staying injury free and consistent training.
I’m convinced he’ll be there doing the 50 in LA. The 100 I’m less sure of as we saw in Paris that his endurance started to fade towards the end and Nowacki and Max Morgan are 2 promising youngsters who could be going 58s by 2028. Plus Butler had a breakthrough at worlds this year after being stagnant for years.
Whatever happens, British breaststroke going to get spicy over the next few years.
In fairness he was riddled with Covid in Paris that surely impacted his back end during the race.
And he swam a 57.9 at 2024 British Olympic Trials. May not be close to his WR but still a serious contender for 2028 gold if his training is good and his mental state is in the right place.
The short-distance breaststroke peaty can never be ignored. If Peaty recovers his form in the mixed medley relay, the UK will need high-level competitiveness in women’s butterfly and women’s freestyle to compete for medals, or high-level competitiveness in women’s backstroke and men’s butterfly
You’re right. We have Eva Okaro in freestyle, and she is off to the US soon, so I’m expecting great things from her. We definitely need a female flyer to come through.
It feels like all it took was the US losing that relay once and now the floodgates are open. China, Russia, Italy, France, GB all potential winners (still no Australia 😭😭😭)
i think if france have a better freestyle leg they’ll win
Or at least that’s what GB seems to think, lol