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Adam Peaty Pounces: Jaw-Dropping 57.55 World Record Beyond A Gauntlet
- Updated: August 6, 2016
Britain’s Adam Peaty threw down one of the most stunning Games debuts in history with a beyond-gauntle 57.55-second world record in the heats of the 100m breaststroke here in Rio to set a sizzling tone to the start of Olympic battle.
If the first session witnessed a world-record attempt that slipped to a European record of 4:28.58 for Katinka Hosszu (HUN) in the 400m medley, no doubting what the biggest opener of the Games was: 57.55.
Imagine that. Coach Mel Marshall had, some time ago – and after her charge at City of Derby Swimming Club had crunched the world mark down to 57.92 last year, she stated and he echoed that he could go “way beyond” that.
How would that happen? Out fast, back with just as much steel, that’s how, she suggested. And so we ponder the pace: Peaty, 21, turned in the two-lap race on 26.69sec.
Little wonder that jaws dropped, experts and some in the crowd rose to their feet and the cheering began in earnest: Before Peaty set a world record for the solo 50m race at 26.42, the mark had stood at 26.62 to Olympic 100m champion Cameron Van der Burgh, of South Africa. Beyond them, no other man has ever covered one lap breaststroke as fast as Peaty did in Rio on the way to more history.
Adam Peaty on his way to the first World Record of Rio 2016 – by Patrick B. Kraemer
Up in the stands watching and commentating for Japanese TV was the most successful breaststroke swimmer in history, Kosuke Kitajima (JPN). As he breezed past SwimVortex with a beaming smile on his face, Kitajima, the Olympic 100 and 200m champion in both 2004 and 2008, said:
“Fast, yes, fast. Wow. Amazing.”
The world record was not planned, said the British ace:
“I wasn’t even pumped up in call room but as soon as I walked in its like ‘fight or flight’ and I chose to get something out of it. That’s how …
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