Record-hunter defends world 100m title

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July 24, 2017 4:31 PM

Britain's Adam Peaty failed to beat his own world record, but was happy to defend the men's 100m breaststroke title at the world aquatic championships on Monday.

Great Britain's Adam Peaty clocked a new championships record of 57.47 seconds in the men's 100m breaststroke final on July 24, 2017

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Peaty clocked a new championships record of 57.47 seconds with Kevin Cordes of the United States second at 1.32 back with Russia's Kirill Prigoda third at 1.58.

The 22-year-old was delighted to defend the world title he first won in Kazan two years ago with plenty of support from the Budapest crowd.

"A lot of hard work goes into competing and the crowd were amazing, I want to thank everyone out there," Peaty said after his win.

"It was incredible, when I walked out I felt like I was in Britain, as everyone was cheering for me so much.

"I'm very happy, I put in a 26.5 seconds (for the first 50m), then built off that on the back end."

Peaty had targeted his own world record of 57.13, set when he won the Olympic title last year in Rio de Janeiro, but was not disappointed to come up short.

"No, I'm still 1.5 secs ahead of the rest of the world, it's not the time it's the way I did it," he said.

"You don't want to keep breaking it every year.

"Obviously I can find areas where I can improve, for example, that was the turn tonight.

"The 26.5 is very promising, not many people can go out on 26.5 and come back.

"I'm the only one who has been under 26.6 in the 50m, so the way I swam, it is very encouraging.

"I need to have a few more 57 lows to get down to 56, but I'm just going to follow that curve now and see where it goes," he added.

"Maybe it will take a Tokyo environment (the 2020 Olympic Games) to do that, it will come.

"I know it's definitely in there."

Peaty will now look to also defend his 50m world title in Wednesday's final in his bid to repeat the breaststroke sprint double he achieved in Kazan.

His victory in the opening event of the evening's session sparked another gold medal for Britain as half an hour later Ben Proud won the 50m butterfly final.

"We have quite a young team, with new faces after Rio, so it will hopefully give that a little bit of a push," added Peaty.

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