Adam Peaty Swimmer

Adam Peaty MBE is both an Olympic and World Champion as he continues to dominate and lead the way in Men's international Breaststroke.

Peaty maintained his grip on the Men's 100m Breaststroke as he successfully defended his Commonwealth title and won gold for Team England. In the 50m event, he was touched out at the wall and took the silver medal. His breaststroke leg of the Men's 4x100m Medley Relay pulled the English quartet back into the race and on to silver medal podium finish.

In 2017, Peaty became the most successful British male swimmer at any World Championships after claiming a fifth global title in the Hungarian capital of Budapest and a total personal haul of three medals.

He broke the world record twice on the way to the 50m Breaststroke title, becoming the first athlete ever to go sub 26 seconds. He also took the global title in the Men's 100m Breaststroke and rounded his week off with silver in the Men's 4x100m Medley relay on the final race of the Championships.

He made history at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as he not only became the first member of Team GB to take gold in Brazil but the first male Olympic Champion in the pool since 1988, as he won the Men's 100m Breaststroke title. Peaty also contributed to the impressive silver in the men's 4x100m Medley Relay, lowering the previous 100m Breast split by more than a second and left Brazil as GB's most decorated swimmer.

Adam was subsequently awarded Best Male Swimming Performance of the Rio 2016 Games by FINA after his impressive win that saw him breaking his existing world record in the heats and then again in the final by almost a second.

The European Championships in the May of 2016 were a great warm-up and a sign of things to come for Peaty as he claimed four titles including two individual in the Men's 50m and 100m Breaststroke and the two medley relays.

At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russia Peaty took gold in the 50m and 100m Breaststroke events as well making up one-quarter of the winning British 4x100m mixed medley relay team which also broke the World record for the second time.

Adam had a strong 2014 season cementing his position in the world’s elite winning 100m Breaststroke gold for England on his Commonwealth debut in Glasgow before winning four golds - including the 50m and 100m Breaststroke double - at the European Championships in Berlin, breaking the 50m Breaststroke world record in the process.