Adam Peaty To Compete At World Short-Course Championships In December
Adam Peaty will compete at the World Short-Course Championships in Melbourne in December.
The three-time Olympic champion hasn’t raced since coming fourth in the 100m breaststroke at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham as he subsequently withdrew from the Europeans in Rome.
That followed his return from the foot injury that ruled him out of the World Championships in Budapest.
Luke Greenbank, who won world 200 back silver and European bronze this year, will also compete .
The event in Australia, which runs from 13-18 December, will mark the first short-course world titles for Peaty since Doha 2014 where he won three silver medals.
Peaty has pretty much always prioritised long-course throughout his career although he has four medals – including one gold – from two European short-course championships.
The 27-year-old was a leading light in the International Swimming League and held the 100br world record at 55.49, a time that was lowered by Ilya Shymanovich and now stands at 55.28.
Shymanovich will not be at worlds because of the ban on athletes from Belarus and Russia following the invasion and war on Ukraine.
In a newsletter from the AP Race Club, Peaty said:
“I have been waiting a long time to have a proper ‘normal’ season with a full winter block of training.
“It has been two years since I have done that, so I am extremely motivated to attack the next few months of training and get the most from it.”
He added:
“This season is a great opportunity to reset, put my injury behind me but also take the lessons learned from the last few years and apply them.
“I will be heading out to the World Short-Course Championships and see how I get there, and then straight into a big winter training camp through Christmas and into the New Year.”