Olympic Champion Adam Peaty has been named Swimming World's European Swimmer of the Year.
Peaty stormed to victory at Rio 2016 in the 100m Breaststroke and became Team GB's first Olympic gold medallist.
Swimming World said: "As impressive as Adam Peaty’s performances were last year when he won Male World Swimmer of the Year honors—becoming the first British man ever to win the award—he took his game to another level in 2016!
Peaty arrived in Rio as the defending world champion in the men’s 100-meter breast and the only man ever to break the 58-second barrier in the event. He was undoubtedly the favourite, but few could have imagined he would turn in such a dominant performance.
In his very first Olympic swim in prelims, Peaty demolished his own world record, dropping it from 57.92 (April 17, 2015) to 57.55. He then topped the semifinals in 57.62 before clocking an almost-unthinkable 57.13. Peaty beat silver medalist Cameron van der Burgh by 1.56 seconds—a margin by which no man had won a 100-meter Olympic event since FINA began measuring times to the hundredth of a second in 1972.
After a few days off, Peaty returned to the Olympic Aquatic Center for the 400 medley relay, where he split 56.59 on the breaststroke leg, the fastest in the field by two seconds and—by far—the top split in history."
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