{"id":3985,"date":"2019-07-23T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=3985"},"modified":"2019-07-23T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T14:50:07","slug":"adam-peaty-break-the-world-record-in-the-mens-100-meter-breaststroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/adam-peaty-break-the-world-record-in-the-mens-100-meter-breaststroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Peaty break the world record in the men\u2019s 100-meter breaststroke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adam Peaty<strong> <\/strong>break the world record in the men\u2019s 100-meter breaststroke at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Peaty, 24, smashed the previous record of 57.10 seconds he set at last year\u2019s European Championships to win in 56.88.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In doing so, the Britain achieved one of his career goals of becoming the first man to break the 57-second barrier in the event. Peaty finished close to two seconds ahead of China\u2019s Yan Zibei, who finished the first semi-final in second place in 58.67, with fellow Briton James Wilby third in 58.83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no other word except for \u2018incredible\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously I\u2019ve been chasing that for three years now, ever since I touched that wall in Rio in 2016 I was like, I could go faster.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uttoxeter-born Peaty swam the first 50 metres in 26.63 and the second in\n30.25, both quicker than his previous world record splits of 26.75 and 30.35.\nHe has now swum the event 1.4 seconds faster than anyone else in history and\nhas set the best 16 times ever recorded in the 100m breaststroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Adam George Peaty :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam George Peaty,\nMBE is a British competitive swimmer from England who specialises in\nbreaststroke. He has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, FINA World\nChampionships, and European Championships, and England in the Commonwealth\nGames. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born: 28 December 1994 (age 24&nbsp;years), Uttoxeter, United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach: Melanie MarshallOlympic medals: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics \u2013 Men&#8217;s 100 metre breaststroke,etc <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Peaty break the world record in the men\u2019s 100-meter breaststroke at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Peaty, 24, smashed the previous record of 57.10 seconds he set at last year\u2019s European Championships to win in 56.88. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 In doing so, the Britain achieved one of his career goals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}