Adam Peaty

Adam Peaty
OBE

Peaty after winning the Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Adam George Peaty[2]
National team	Great Britain England
Born	(1994-12-28) 28 December 1994 (age 29) Uttoxeter, England, UK
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[3]
Weight	95 kg (14 st 13 lb)[4]
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	Loughborough University London Roar
Coach	Mel Marshall[1]
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 3 2 0 World Championships (LC) 8 1 3 World Championships (SC) 0 3 1 European Championships (LC) 16 0 0 European Championships (SC) 1 2 1 Commonwealth Games 4 3 0 Total 32 11 5 Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m breaststroke 2020 Tokyo 100 m breaststroke 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m mixed medley 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m medley 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley World Championships (LC) 2015 Kazan 50 m breaststroke 2015 Kazan 100 m breaststroke 2015 Kazan 4×100 m mixed medley 2017 Budapest 50 m breaststroke 2017 Budapest 100 m breaststroke 2019 Gwangju 50 m breaststroke 2019 Gwangju 100 m breaststroke 2019 Gwangju 4×100 m medley 2017 Budapest 4×100 m medley 2019 Gwangju 4×100 m mixed medley 2024 Doha 100 m breaststroke 2024 Doha 4×100 m mixed medley World Championships (SC) 2014 Doha 50 m breaststroke 2014 Doha 100 m breaststroke 2014 Doha 4×50 m mixed medley 2022 Melbourne 100 m breaststroke European Championships (LC) 2014 Berlin 50 m breaststroke 2014 Berlin 100 m breaststroke 2014 Berlin 4×100 m medley 2014 Berlin 4×100 m mixed medley 2016 London 50 m breaststroke 2016 London 100 m breaststroke 2016 London 4×100 m medley 2016 London 4×100 m mixed medley 2018 Glasgow 50 m breaststroke 2018 Glasgow 100 m breaststroke 2018 Glasgow 4×100 m mixed medley 2018 Glasgow 4x100 m medley 2020 Budapest 50m breaststroke 2020 Budapest 100 m breaststroke 2020 Budapest 4×100 m mixed medley 2020 Budapest 4×100 m medley European Championships (SC) 2017 Copenhagen 100 m breaststroke 2015 Netanya 50 m breaststroke 2015 Netanya 100 m breaststroke 2017 Copenhagen 50 m breaststroke Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 100 m breaststroke 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m medley 2018 Gold Coast 100 m breaststroke 2022 Birmingham 50 m breaststroke 2014 Glasgow 50 m breaststroke 2018 Gold Coast 50 m breaststroke 2018 Gold Coast 4x100 m medley

Adam George Peaty OBE (born 28 December 1994) is an English competitive swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke. He won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first by a male British swimmer in 24 years, and retained the title at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, the first British swimmer ever to retain an Olympic title. He is also an eight-time World Champion, a sixteen-time European Champion and a four-time Commonwealth Champion. According to FINA itself, Peaty is widely regarded as the dominant breaststroke swimmer of his era, and the most dominant sprint breaststroke swimmer of all time.^[5]

Peaty is the holder of the world record in 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events. He has broken world records 14 times, becoming the first man to swim under 26 seconds for the 50 metre breaststroke and the first to swim the 100 metre breaststroke under both 58 and 57 seconds. He is the first swimmer ever to win both sprint breaststroke events at the same World championships, and the most successful British swimmer in a single World Championships.

Peaty is one of only six British swimmers, with David Wilkie, Rebecca Adlington, James Guy, Duncan Scott, and Tom Dean to have won gold medals at all four major international events (Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games), and with David Wilkie the only swimmers to hold all four major gold medals in the same single event at the same time, a feat he completed in winning the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Olympics, and which he uniquely maintained through the 2020 Olympics. Peaty is a six-time European swimmer of the year which he has won consecutively from 2014 to 2019, and also a two-time World swimmer of the year in 2015 and 2018.