South Africa’s silver medal victor Cameron van der Burgh congratulates Britain’s gold medal victor Adam Peaty after the lads’s 100m breaststroke ultimate at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Monday, August three, 2015.
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Peaty overhauled Olympic champion Van der Burgh in the final 25m to win in 58.52 seconds and emulate Scot David Wilkie, who won the 1975 world title.
Last year Peaty captured the European and Commonwealth titles and set a new world record in London in April.
“It’s my first World Championships so I’m not quite used to it all yet”.
And while he finished more than half a second shy of his world record, the 20-year old insisted all that mattered in the final was reaching the wall first.
Adam Peaty gave Britain its first gold medal in the temporary pool at Kazan Arena with a comeback victory in the 100 breaststroke.
Peaty had set a championship record en route to the 100m final and delivered gold in a discipline in which Britain has pedigree through Duncan Goodhew, Adrian Moorhouse, Nick Gillingham and Michael Jamieson.
Peaty said: “I turned and I saw his foot and I was like, “Right, I’ve got some catching up to do now”.
“I am very happy with the swim, I think I can be proud of that, I laid it all on the line tonight and swam with my heart”, Van der Burgh said after the race.
Murdoch raced in lane eight, but clocked a Scottish record in an event which is not his best – that is the 200m breaststroke which takes place on Thursday and Friday.
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“I still feel a little bit out of my comfort zone at the faster (stroke) rates”.
