Triple For Peaty Mentor Mel Marshall As GBR Coach Of Year; McNulty Honoured

Melanie Marshall celebrated a triple triumph as Great Britain’s swim coach of the year at the weekend when her peers at the BSCA voted her top mentor for the third season in succession.

It was a no-brainer: Adam Peaty, Olympic gold in a world record of 57.13sec in the 100m breaststroke. It was the swim of the Olympic Games, the global standard that topped them all on points, the Beamonesque bounce that produced the biggest winning margin over two laps on breaststroke in the modern era of Olympic Games.

Marshall because Britain’s first woman coach of the year in 2014 when Peaty made his breakthrough in international waters with 100m crowns Commonwealth and European. Last year, he added to his treasury world titles over 50 and 100m, earning selection to that party with a world record of 57.92 that heralded a new era in means breaststroke racing, Marshall celebrating a second coach of the year award.

In Rio, after Peaty’s 57.13 victory, swimming and Marshall spoke of the ‘Project 56’. Having split the medley relay in that zone, the hunt for such speed is on sometime during the next Olympic cycle. Peaty is a pioneer well ahead of the curve of his peers. His progress and their catch up will be one of the most fascinating stories on the way to Tokyo 2020.

At the heart of that tale will be the next chapter in the story of Peaty and Marshall. More on Peaty later this week.

Dave McNulty

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