Adam Peaty Scorches 100 Breast Prelims With New World Record At 2016 Rio Olympic Games

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Men’s 100 Breast:

Great Britain’s Adam Peaty scorched the prelim field at day one of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, powering his way to a new World Record in the men’s 100 breaststroke.

The young Brit, who last year became the first swimmer to swim a sub-58 100 breast, lowered his own World Record of 57.92 down to a swift 57.55 taking charge from the beginning of the race all the way until the end.

Peaty told the media, “Hopefully tonight I’m going to feel a lot better and hopefully swim a little bit faster.” He also explained, “We’re not going to get too complacent now. We’re going to keep striving, keep pushing the boundaries.”

Japan’s Yasuhiro Koseki clocked the only 58-second swim of the morning, stopping the clock at a 58.91, good for the second place seed.

Brazil’s Felipe Franca and the USA’s Kevin Cordes delivered similar times for the third and fourth place seeds respectively. Franca turned in a time of 59.01, while Cordes posted a 59.13.

Cordes said, “It was a great first swim and I’m excited to improve when I get to the final.”

Fellow USA team member Cody Miller picked up the fifth place seed with a time of 59.17, just ahead of Australia’s Jake Packard’s 59.26.

South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh (59.35) and Brazil’s Joao Gomes (59.46) claimed seventh and eighth respectively.

Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Balandin (59.47), Great Britain’s Ross Murdoch (59.47), China’s Li Xiang (59.55), Lithuania’s Giedrius Titenis (59.90), Russia’s Vsevolod Zanko (59.91), Colombia’s Jorge Mario Murillo Valdes (59.93), and Germany’s Christian Vom Lehn (1:00.13) complete ninth through fifteenth in tonight’s semi-finals.

New Zealand’s Glenn Snyders and Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta will hold a swim-off for the sixteenth spot after posting matching 1:00.26.

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