Will Adam Peaty Touch The Mythical 56-Second 100m Breaststroke?

Can Great Britain's Adam Peaty swim a 56-second 100 meter breaststroke at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Peaty is currently the world record holder in the 100 breast with a 57.13 from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

Jul 22, 2017 by Maclin Simpson

Will Adam Peaty Touch The Mythical 56-Second 100m Breaststroke?

2017 FINA World Championships

July 23-30, 2017
Budapest, Hungary
Dagály Aquatics Arena
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Adam Peaty (GBR)
WR: 50m Breaststroke -- 26.42, Adam Peaty (GBR), 2015
2017 Best: 26.48 (+0.06)

WR: 100m Breaststroke -- 57.13, Adam Peaty (GBR), 2016
2017 Best: 57.79 (+0.66)

ADAM PEATY AT RIO

Since taking the Commonwealth title in the 100m breaststroke three years ago in Glasgow, Scotland, Adam Peaty has been on a tear and hasn't been defeated in this event since. Not to mention, he has chopped a combined 1.33 seconds off the previous world record. His win at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio by an unprecedented 1.5-second margin to swim a 57.13 will go down as one of the greatest single performances of all time.

Peaty doesn't look to be slowing down at all in 2017, missing his own world record in the 50m breaststroke by a fingernail at the British Trials in April and swimming another 57 over the 100m distance. Throwing down 26s and 58s all over the world at in-season meets, look for Peaty to try and bring these marks down a little further come Budapest.

But don't sleep on South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh in the 50m distance. The previous world-record holder before Peaty in the 50m and 100m, the veteran van der Burgh is coming toward the back end of his career and looks to stand on top of the podium once again. A medalist in the 50m distance at every World Championship since 2007, including wins in 2009 and 2013, and also holding off Peaty at Glasgow 2014, van der Burgh is the only man to have beaten Peaty in the last three years. His 26.9s this year on the Mare Nostrum tour are the fastest in-season swims of his career, and if anyone can shape up to the presence of Peaty in a man-to-man battle, it's the 2012 Olympic champion.

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