The 21-year old swimmer won gold in the 100m breaststroke during a rigorous event that happened on August 6-7, 2016 at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
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Peaty beat his own world record in the heats in Rio with a time of 57.55 seconds in the 100m.
Although Williams’ tweets have only gone viral during the Olympics, she’s actually been using the micro-blogging service to support her grandson for quite some time.
It is the first men’s Olympic gold by a British swimmer in 28 years, since Adrian Moorhouse’s success in the same event in Seoul 1988.
Footage of the moment showed Ms Williams shouting: “Yes!”
He holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke and has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, FINA world championships, European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games.
Her bio reads: “Proud Nan to a World Champion Breaststroker”.
“I touched the wall, looked to my left and I was like, ‘Where is everybody?’ That swim for me was probably the best executed, the flawless race”.
“That proves tonight that kids watching at home are in the same position I was four years ago watching others take the glory and win races”.
“There were so many situations – I had just come out of an elite sport from Beijing and retired – and he had just landed on my doorstep and it went from there”.
“Can’t stop pinching myself”, Zair wrote on Twitter on Monday morning after waking up to the realisation her boyfriend is Olympic champion.
“My final words to him were use you speed with a great stroke, use your courage with a great stroke and go and make some history”, said Marshall, who added that the next target would be breaking the 57 second barrier.
He said: “I’m going to keep pushing the boundaries that no one has pushed before”.
He returned to social media a few hours later, posting a picture of himself in the pool with eyes shut and arms outstretched seconds after taking gold. “Hopefully, I’ve done her proud”.
“The feeling is totally insane”, Sjostrom said. “I never thought it could work out this well”. I’m exhausted, excited, and I’ll be glad when he comes home now.
She revealed Peaty “didn’t like the water” as a small child.
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“He didn’t like the water when he was younger, he used to scream every time he got in the bath”. The 19-year-old crushed the mark of 3:58.37 that she set almost two years ago on the Gold Coast of Australia, and had been chasing ever since.
