Adam Peaty wins second gold at World Championships
Last Updated: 05/08/15 7:15pm
Great Britain’s Adam Peaty has won his second individual gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships in Kazan after triumphing in the 50m breaststroke final.
And there was further joy for Great Britain and Peaty when the mixed 4x100m relay team claimed gold in a world record time later on.
It has been an incredible week for the 20-year-old, who also won gold in the 100m breaststroke and set a new world record in his 50m breaststroke semi-final on Tuesday night.
Peaty’s big rival Cameron van der Burgh started well in Wednesday’s final but, as in the 100m, the British swimmer finished really strongly and overhauled the South African in the second half of the length to triumph in 26.51 seconds.
The 2013 world champion van der Burgh was 0.15 seconds back in 26.66 and Kevin Cordes of the United States took third in 26.86.
Van der Burgh had set a new 50m breaststroke world record in Tuesday morning's heats of 26.62 but Peaty then bettered the time in his semi-final, clocking 26.42.
Wednesday night's action also featured another brilliant display from teenage sensation Katie Ledecky of the United States, who picked up her third gold after winning the women's 200m freestyle final.
It was Britain's third gold in the swimming pool at the meeting after Peaty won the 100m title on Monday night and James Guy won the men's 200m freestyle on Tuesday.
And they then added another when the 4x100m medley relay team broke the world record in the final, the third time the record had fallen on the day.
The British quartet of Chris Walker-Hebborn, Peaty, Siobhan O'Connor and Fran Halsall clocked 3min, 41.71 seconds in the final, while the United States took silver at 1.56sec back, with Germany third at 2.42.
Russia and then the USA had both previously broken the world record in the morning's heats.
