64 Facts About Adam Peaty

Adam George Peaty was born on 28 December 1994 and is an English competitive swimmer who specialises in the sprint breaststroke events.

Adam Peaty won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first by a male British swimmer in 24 years, and retained the title at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, the first British swimmer ever to retain an Olympic title.

Adam Peaty is an eight-time World Champion, a sixteen-time European Champion and a four-time Commonwealth Champion.

Between the years 2014 and 2020, Peaty achieved complete dominance in the 100 metre breaststroke in long-course major championships, and almost complete dominance of the 50 metre breaststroke, with only Cameron van der Burgh.

Adam Peaty is the holder of the world record in 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events.

Adam Peaty has broken 14 world records, becoming the first man to swim under 26 seconds for the 50 metre breaststroke and the first to swim the 100 metre breaststroke under both 58 and 57 seconds.

Adam Peaty is the first swimmer ever to win both sprint breaststroke events at the same World championships, and the most successful British swimmer in a single World Championships.

Adam Peaty is one of only six British swimmers, with David Wilkie, Rebecca Adlington, James Guy, Duncan Scott, and Tom Dean to have won gold medals at all four major international events, and with David Wilkie the only swimmers to hold all four major gold medals in the same single event at the same time, a feat he completed in winning the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Olympics, and which he uniquely maintained through the 2020 Olympics.

Adam Peaty is a six-time European swimmer of the year which he has won consecutively from 2014 to 2019, and a two-time World swimmer of the year in 2015 and 2018.

Adam George Peaty was born on 28 December 1994 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire to Mark and Caroline Peaty, the youngest of four children.

Adam Peaty attended St Josephs Catholic Primary School in Uttoxeter, Painsley Catholic College in Cheadle and Derby College.

Adam Peaty first joined Dove Valley Swimming Club in Uttoxeter when he was nine, and started to win races and setting club records by the time he was twelve.

When he was 14, a friend took Adam Peaty to join City of Derby Swimming Club, but the coach at the club, former Olympic swimmer Melanie Marshall, was not impressed by Adam Peaty's performance in the freestyle and put him in the slow lane with younger girls.

Adam Peaty recognised the advantages of his large hands, big feet, "extraordinary cardiovascular system", and hyper-mobile, double-jointed knees and ankles.

Adam Peaty started training at the City of Derby swimming club in 2007, where he was coached by Melanie Marshall.

Adam Peaty trained up to eight times per week at Repton School, a co-educational boarding independent school in the village of Repton in Derbyshire, and two sessions at Loughborough University.

Adam Peaty started to train full-time at Loughborough University in 2017.

Olympic champion and world record holder van der Burgh was the favourite to win, but Adam Peaty managed a record time for a British man in the event.

At the 2014 European Championships, Adam Peaty set his first ever world record.

Adam Peaty won the gold in the 100 metre breaststroke after winning all 3 of his races and the gold in the 4 x 100 metre medley relay along with Walker-Hebborn, Barrett and Ben Proud, ending the championships having won gold in 4 out of the 5 events he entered after not qualifying for the final of the 200 metre breaststroke.

In 2015, Adam Peaty's rise continued, breaking the world record for 100 metre breaststroke at the British Championships and World Trials by almost half a second.

Adam Peaty won gold in the 100 metre breaststroke after winning both his heat and semi-final in new championship records before beating Cameron van der Burgh in the final, with his British team-mate Ross Murdoch winning the bronze medal.

Adam Peaty then won the final of the event, which his second gold of the championship with van der Burgh taking silver.

Adam Peaty's team of Walker-Hebborn, James Guy and Proud finished fourth in the 4 x 100 metre medley relay just missing out on a medal and he did not qualify out of the heats in his weakest event, the 200 metre breaststroke.

Adam Peaty rounded off his year by winning two silver medals at the 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships in the 50 metre breaststroke and 100 metre breaststroke events.

At the 2016 European Championships held in London, Adam Peaty retained both of his individual titles in the 50 metre breaststroke and the 100 metre breaststroke, comfortably winning all of his heat, semi final and final swims and sharing the podium with his teammate Ross Murdoch on both occasions.

Adam Peaty did not enter the 200 metre breaststroke event and as of the Olympics held in 2021 had never entered the event again at a major championship.

Adam Peaty then won his semi-final and went on to win the final, breaking the new world record that he himself had set in the heats, and winning Team GB's first gold medal of the 2016 Olympics on 7 August 2016, winning with a time of 57.13 seconds.

At the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, Adam Peaty retained his 100 metre breaststroke title.

Adam Peaty broke his own world record twice in the 50 metre breaststroke.

Adam Peaty recorded 26.10 seconds in the heats, and in the semi-final, he became the first man to break 26 seconds and won in 25.95 seconds.

Adam Peaty successfully defended his 50-metre breaststroke title with another sub-26 time of 25.99 seconds in the final, completing another double at the World Championships with van der Burgh taking bronze.

At the 2017 European Short Course Swimming Championships, Adam Peaty won a bronze medal in the 50 metre breaststroke with a personal best time and setting a new British record.

Adam Peaty then went on to win gold in the 100 metre breaststroke setting a new European record in the process, his first ever gold medal at a short course event.

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Adam Peaty defended his 100 metre breaststroke title, winning in a time of 58.84 seconds after setting a games record time in the semi-final of 58.59, beating his teammate James Wilby in to silver medal position and his old rival van der Burgh in to bronze.

Adam Peaty retained his 100-metre title in the final, after finishing first in front of his training partner James Wilby.

Adam Peaty won the gold in the 50 metre breaststroke for the third time, completing the triple double at the World Championships.

Adam Peaty competed in the inaugural season of the International Swimming League in 2019 and was one of the main supporters for the league's creation.

Adam Peaty was chosen as team captain for London Roar and helped his team reach the grand final in Las Vegas in which they finished in second place, with Adam Peaty having won four out of the eight individual breaststroke events he competed in.

On 15 November 2020, at the International Swimming League meet in Budapest, Adam Peaty competed as part of the London Roar team.

Adam Peaty broke the world record for the short-course 100m breaststroke with a time of 55.49 seconds in the semi-final, which was his first ever world record in short course metres.

Adam Peaty then beat his own world record time in the 100m breaststroke one week later, swimming 55.41 seconds in the final.

Adam Peaty ended up winning 6 out his 15 individual breaststroke events during the 2020 ISL season, as well as all 3 of the skins races he competed in.

At the 2021 British Swimming Olympic trials, Adam Peaty won the 100m breaststroke title on the opening day of the championships at the London Aquatics Centre in a time of 57.39 seconds.

In July 2021, Adam Peaty became the first British swimmer to defend an Olympic title.

In March 2022, Adam Peaty signed a professional sponsorship deal with Speedo.

Adam Peaty returned to compete in the 2022 Commonwealth Games after his injury but was beaten in the final of the 100m breaststroke for the first time in 8 years, finishing fourth behind England team-mate James Wilby and Australians Zac Stubblety-Cook and Sam Williamson.

Adam Peaty later said that he didn't know "what went wrong" and that he has "kind of lost that spark".

Adam Peaty later went on to win gold in the 50m breaststroke event for the first time at the Commonwealth Games, winning in a time of 26.76 seconds.

Later in the year, in December at the 2022 World Short Course Championships in Melbourne, Australia, Adam Peaty won the bronze medal in the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 56.25 seconds, which was 37-hundredths of a second behind gold medalist Nic Fink and 18-hundredths of a second behind silver medalist Nicolo Martinenghi, and marked the first medal for Great Britain at the Championships.

At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, Adam Peaty won the silver medal in the 100m breaststroke, finishing tied with Nic Fink and behind Nicolo Martinenghi.

Adam Peaty is engaged to Holly Ramsay, daughter of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.

On 1 April 2016, Adam Peaty started a YouTube channel, to which he published a number of videos; the first one on 14 April 2017 answered some common questions about himself.

From September to November 2021, Adam Peaty was a contestant on the nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Adam Peaty revealed that he had depression, problems with alcohol, and had been diagnosed with ADHD.

Adam Peaty questioned China's performances at the 2024 Summer Olympics, alluding to the cover-up of positive doping cases by Chinese swimmers, and expressing dissatisfaction with the World Anti-Doping Agency's efforts to combat cheating in sports.

Adam Peaty is physiologically particularly adapted to swimming the breast stroke; he has been described, like Michael Phelps, as "an anatomical freak".

Adam Peaty has been described as having an "extraordinary" cardiovascular system.

Adam Peaty received the FINA award for Best Male Swimming Performance of 2015 after he won 3 gold medals at the World Championships in Kazan.

Adam Peaty has won the Ligue Europeenne de Natation Award for best male swimmer for three times in four years for his performances in 2016,2017 and 2019.

Adam Peaty was the recipient of the award again in 2021.

Adam Peaty was named Male World Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World Magazine in 2015 and 2018.

Adam Peaty won Male European Swimmer of the Year for 6 consecutive years from 2014 to 2019.

Adam Peaty was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours, both for services to swimming.