Great Britain’s Adam Peaty clinched his 2015 World Championship title in the men’s 100m breaststroke by a matter of inches, as his final stroke just barely out-touched that of Cameron Van der Burgh of South Africa. Although Peaty’s time of 58.52 was off his world record time of 57.92 from this year’s British Nationals, it was swift enough to beat the field and take home the gold for the young 20-year old. This makes Peaty the first British man since David Wilkie in 1975 to have won a 100m breaststroke world title.
Of his race today, Peaty said he “fought for every inch”, especially against chief rival, former world record holder Van der Burgh. “Cameron put up a really tough fight and I reacted to that with the last 50.” For his part, Van der Burgh put up a blistering opening 50m of 26.79 to Peaty’s 27.20, but Peaty kept control and wound up clocking a 31.32 to VDB’s 31.80 on the back-half to wind up with the gold.
Happy with his time today, Peaty did coyly admit that “57.9 would have been ideal, but you can’t always get what you want.”
Congrats to the boy from the peat with his bog survival genes . Keep this up & he is going to be as famous as The Bog Man .
Jake is holding up Australia’s version of The Swamp Peope with his 59.44 ( we don’t really have bogs ) . Qld is the best we can do . We used to get them from the NT like with Liesel but the crocodiles have exploded under protection & all potential breastrokers who’ve been playing & swimming in the rivers have been eaten .