Adam Peaty
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1994 (29 years old)
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Uttoxeter, EnglandPosition
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1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
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95 kg (209 lb)
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Great Britain Swimming
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Adam George Peaty, MBE (born 28 December 1994) is a British competitive swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke. He has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games. He won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics, the first by a male British swimmer in 24 years. He is the holder of the world record in 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events.
Peaty is the 2016 Olympic champion and 2020 Olympic champion, an eight-time World Champion, a sixteen-time European Champion and a three-time Commonwealth Champion. He has broken world records 13 times and holds three world records in the 100 metre breaststroke (long course and short course) and the 50 metre breaststroke, 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. He is one of only three British swimmers, with David Wilkie and Rebecca Adlington, to have won gold medals at all four major international events (Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games), and the only swimmer to win 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. 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.
Peaty is physiologically particularly adapted to swimming the breast stroke, although not exceptionally good at other strokes; he has been described as "an anatomical freak", like some other great swimmers such as Michael Phelps. He is very tall at 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in), with very large hands and feet (shoe size 12), and has hypermobile, double-jointed knees and ankles. As his knees hyperextend he can kick particularly effectively; his ankles help by flexing in a way other people's ankles don't. He has also been described as having an extraordinary cardiovascular system.
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