British Olympic Selection Trials
- Wednesday 14 April – Sunday 18 April
- Heats 10am / Finals 7pm local time
- London Aquatics Center
- British Swimming Olympic Selection Policy
- Main selection for the Olympic Games
- Entries
- Results
Adam Peaty showed that he’s ready to race at this year’s British Olympic Selection Trials by opening with a 57.70 100 breast, establishing the top time in the world this season. Peaty’s swim surpasses Nicolo Martininghi’s 58.37 from Italian Trials and makes him the only swimmer under 58 in the event both this season and in history.
2020-2021 LCM Men 100 Breast
Peaty
57.37
| 2 | Arno Kamminga | NED | 57.80 | 07/24 |
| 3 | Michael Andrew | USA | 58.14 | 06/13 |
| 4 | Nicolo Martinenghi | ITA | 58.28 | 07/25 |
| 5 | Ilya Shymanovich | BLR | 58.46 | 05/17 |
A 57.70 is a solid improvement from Peaty’s performances in the 100 breast so far this year. At the 2021 Manchester International Swim Meet back in February he posted a 58.87 in the prelims and a 58.82 in the finals and in March at the 2021 British Swimming Invitation Peaty raced again, posting a 59.45 prelim swim and was a 58.52 in the finals.
The prelims swim of 57.70 for Peaty is within a second of his current 56.88 world record from the 2019 World Championships and is his 9th fastest time on record in the event.
With the swim, Peaty is one step closer to having the top 20 fastest swims in the event as Ilya Shymanovich now sits with the 20th fastest performance in history with his 58.29. Should Peaty swim faster than that 58.29 during finals, he will achieve the feat.
Heading into tonight’s final, Peaty will be joined by two other sub-1:00 swimmers as James Wilby and Ross Murdoch posted swims of 59.32 and 59.53, respectively.
TOP 8
| Name | YoB | Club | Time | FINA Pt | 50 Split | |
| 1. | Adam Peaty | (94) | Loughboro | 57.70 | 957 | 26.87 |
| 2. | James Wilby | (93) | Loughboro NC | 59.32 | 881 | 27.44 |
| 3. | Ross Murdoch | (94) | UniOfStirl | 59.53 | 872 | 28.07 |
| 4. | David Murphy | (98) | Loughboro NC | 1: 00.38 | 835 | 27.91 |
| 5. | Archie Goodburn | (01) | Loughboro NC | 1: 01.17 | 804 | 28.36 |
| 6. | Gregory Butler | (00) | Loughboro NC | 1: 01.43 | 793 | 28.34 |
| 7. | Kyle Booth | (01) | Co Cardiff | 1: 01.52 | 790 | 28.68 |
Any links to video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEG4nfse4NU
this is the finals, the commentator is a joy to listen to as well
So according to the chart, he’s only been faster at Worlds/Euros/Olympics. Peaty is such a legend.
Nope. Shymanovich is #2 all-time still at 58.29.
Any livestreams?
British Swimming Facebook page
British swimming youtube channel
Scott also swam a cheeky 1.57 200 IM
Do the Brits have semi finals also, or are finals tonight?
Straight finals.
No semis, just finals. Very few entries per event because of CoVid restrictions: they capped it at a max of 3 heats, and only the men’s 200 free has three full heats anyway, so semis wouldn’t make much sense. In any case, British trials never have semis: the depth simply isn’t there (except maybe in one or two events) to make it worthwhile.
Finals tonight (due to COVID most events only have 2-3 heats so having semis would be a farce).
Ah a stellar breakfast swim
He’s so ridiculous. This dude is gonna win his own gold medal and then carry two different medley relays to gold, isn’t he?
Kathleen Dawson at 58.6 and Freya Anderson on Free isn’t good enough? I would have agreed Pre-Dawson Breakthrough but not so much anymore. If anything the success of that Relay is dependent on James Guy since Dressel and Minakov could outsplit him by 1-2 Seconds or even more.
I don’t think so lol
Dawson-Peaty-Guy-Anderson is definitely medal material, but I think gold would be a push. China & USA look rock solid for medals, which probably leaves Australia, Russia and GBR to fight for the third medal.