Peaty Throws Down Menacing 57.87 With 26.63 Opener At 2019 British C’ships

2019 BRITISH SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

While competing on day 1 of the 2019 British Swimming Championships, Adam Peaty proved once again that he is the ultimate 100m breaststroke king of the world.

After crushing a morning swim of 58.55 to lead the field by a mile into tonight’s final, the 24-year-old Loughborough Olympic champion busted out a menacing 57.87 to take the national title tonight. That easily cleared the British-mandated selection standard for this summer’s Wold Championships and also dethrones Belarus’ Ilya Shymanovich for #1 in the world.

2018-2019 LCM MEN 100 BREAST

AdamGBR
PEATY
07/21
56.88 *WR
2Ilya
SHYMANOVICH
BLR58.2903/24
3James
WILBY
GBR58.4607/22
4Yan
ZIBEI
CHN58.6307/22
5Yasuhiro
KOSEKI
JPN58.8907/21
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What’s especially remarkable about Peaty’s swim tonight is the fact he spun out in a wicked-fast opening 50 of 26.63. That laid waste to his already historic 26.90 first 50 from this morning, which you can read more about here.

His 26.63 alone sits as the 22nd fastest performance in it own right and would have won silver at the 2018 European Championships, bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and 4th at the 2017 World Championships.

Peaty’s overall 57.87 time inserts itself as #8 on the Peaty, ahem, top 10 performances of all-time.

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Blackflag82
4 years ago

I feel like after Peaty retires, we’ll have to refer to breaststroke swims in the way we currently refer to the 2009 suited swims…instead of a time being the fastest textile, it’ll be the fastest non-Peaty swim. At least until someone else is able to even break into the top 10

dfsd
4 years ago

would have won silver behind himself in Kazan at the world champs 2015

Tim
Reply to  dfsd
4 years ago

Or silver begin himself at Rio. Or at Budapest…

Swimdude
Reply to  dfsd
4 years ago

Only Schooling during practice

Woke Stasi
Reply to  dfsd
4 years ago

@Steverino
Any calls from Palo Alto yet? Any nibbles?

Ol' Longhorn
Reply to  dfsd
4 years ago

Getting close though. 58.2.

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