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Mavis also revealed the moment she realised Adam had the ability to be an Olympic gold victor after watching him training in Derby for the first time.
“To be in a heat like that – no doubt probably the fastest heat of 100m breaststrokers ever”. It’ll be good to get back to Loughborough to get back to it and look for areas to improve.
The world champion touched in with a time of 57.13, his second world record of the weekend, to become the first British man to win an Olympic swimming gold since Adrian Moorhouse at Seoul 1988.
She added: “Well you have done it @adam_peaty you have made it, your hard work paid off. Congratulations to you and @massivemel”.
Peaty is the 2015 world champion, the 2014 and 2016 European champion, and 2014 Commonwealth champion in the 100-meter breaststroke, the 2015 World Champion and 2014.
His mum said she was “over the moon” telling BBC Sport: “I don’t know where he gets that power from”.
“For me to come away with a silver is pretty special but it was just a great night for GB in the pool”. “Going down that last 50m, I was aware that I was in front but not by that much”.
With his latest victory, Peaty has beaten his own world record twice in three swims.
Guy, who is world champion in the event, was third in his 400m freestyle semi-final on Saturday but the second semi was faster and Guy scraped into the final, as the eighth qualifier, by 0.01 seconds. “Hopefully, I’ve done her proud”.
“To see him flourish on the world stage is such a fantastic boost for the whole region, as well as Uttoxeter in particular, so we are very excited to be able to help celebrate”.
Trailing in second and third place were South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh and USA’s Cody Miller who celebrated more wildly than Peaty did. I just wanted to come here and give it absolutely everything.
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She was beaten by American Katie Ledecky, who won gold in a world record time of 3:56.46 seconds. Sjostrom finished fourth in the 100 fly at the London Games four years ago, missing out on the bronze by just 23-hundredths of a second.
