Adam Peaty is the professional name of Adam George Peaty, a versatile British competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke.
In 2014, he made his international debut, capturing four gold medals at the LEN European Aquatics Championships and three gold medals at the Commonwealth Games. He was also nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award the same year. In August 2014, Adam established the World Record in the 50-meter breaststroke with a timing of 26.62 seconds.
He is an eight-time World Champion, sixteen-time European Champion, and three-time Commonwealth Champion, as well as the 2016 and 2020 Olympic champions. In addition, in July 2021, Adam became the first British swimmer to defend an Olympic title. He also started a YouTube account on April 1, 2016, and has since uploaded a number of videos, the first of which was released on April 14, 2017, and addressed some frequently asked questions about himself.
Adam Peaty’s Bio
Adam Peaty’s true name is Adam George Peaty, and he was born on December 28, 1994, in Uttoxeter, England. By nationality, he is British, and by ethnicity, he is British-white. Similarly, his ethnicity is white and his faith is Christian. Adam will be 26 years old in 2020, and his star sign is Capricorn, according to his birthdate. His father, Mark Peaty, and mother, Caroline Peaty, are his parents. He has three siblings as well. Adam went to St Josephs Catholic Primary School in Uttoxeter, Painsley Catholic College in Cheadle, and Derby College for his schooling.
Adam Peaty’s Career
Adam Peaty started his swimming career at Dove Valley Swimming Club in Uttoxeter when he was nine years old, and by the age of twelve, he was winning races and breaking club records. Melanie Marshall coached him at the City of Derby Swimming Club in 2009. At the 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships, he set three personal best times in the three breaststroke events, making him a senior for the first time.
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, he competed in four events: the 50-meter breaststroke, the 100-meter breaststroke, the 200-meter breaststroke, and the four-person 100-meter medley relay. In the 50-meter breaststroke, he created a new Commonwealth Games record by qualifying first out of the heats, then won his semi-final to qualify second quickest for the final.
With a timing of 26.78 seconds, he finished second in the final, 0.02 seconds behind South African Cameron van der Burgh. In addition, he and his teammates Chris Walker-Hebborn, Adam Barrett, and Adam Brown won gold in the 4 × 100-meter medley relay. At the 2014 European Championships, he established his first-ever world record, and after winning his heat of the 50-meter breaststroke, he set a new world mark of 26.62″ in the semi-final.
He established a new world record in the final of the 4 x 100-meter mixed medley relay with a time of 3’44.02″, and he also won gold in the 100-meter breaststroke after winning all three of his events, as well as gold in the 4 x 100-meter medley relay. He also finished the year with three silver medals at the 2014 World Short Course Championships in the 50-meter breaststroke, 100-meter breaststroke, and the 4 × 50-meter mixed medley relay, but did not qualify for the final of the 200-meter breaststroke.
In 2015, he broke the world record for 100 meters breaststroke by almost half a second at the British Championships and World Trials. With a timing of 57.92 seconds, he became the first man to break the 58-second barrier in the race. At the 2015 World Aquatic Championships, he qualified for all three breaststroke events.
At the 2015 World Championships, Adam became a World Champion for the first time, winning gold in the 100 meter breaststroke after setting new championship records in both his heat and semi-final before defeating Cameron van der Burgh in the final. Along with Walker-Hebborn, he won a third gold medal in the 4 x 100-meter mixed medley relay, setting a new world record time, and he finished the year by winning two silver medals at the 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships in the 50-meter breaststroke and 100-meter breaststroke events.
At the 2016 European Championships in London, Adam retained all of his solo championships in the 50-meter breaststroke and the 100-meter breaststroke, as well as both of his relay medals, winning the 4 x 100-meter medley relay alongside Walker-Hebborn. Because the 50-meter breaststroke was not an Olympic swimming event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he only participated in the individual races in the 100-meter breaststroke.
He established a new world mark in the heats with a time of 57.55 seconds, then won his semi-final and went on to win the final, beating the new world record he had set in the heats and claiming Team GB’s first gold medal of the 2016 Olympics with a time of 57.13 seconds on 7 August 2016. He also took silver in the four-person 100-meter medley relay alongside Walker-Hebborn, Guy, and Scott.
Later, in the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, Adam defended his 100-meter breaststroke title and broke his own world record twice in the 50-meter breaststroke: in the heats, he clocked 26.10 seconds, and in the semi-final, he became the first man to break 26 seconds, winning in 25.95 seconds.
At the 2017 European Short Course Swimming Championships, he earned a bronze medal in the 50-meter breaststroke with a personal best time and a new British record, and he also won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100-meter medley relay. Then he went on to win gold in the 100-meter breaststroke, breaking a new European record in the process, and earning his first gold medal in a short course event.
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Adam successfully defended his 100-meter breaststroke title, winning in 58.84 seconds after setting a games record time of 58.59 seconds in the semi-final. In the 4 x 100-meter medley relay, he also led England to a silver medal. At the 2018 European Championships, he successfully defended his European title in the 100-meter breaststroke, breaking his own world record with a time of 57.00 seconds, which was later corrected to 57.10″ the next day.
At the conclusion of the European Championships, Peaty had the eleven best times in history in the 50-meter breaststroke and the fourteen best times in the 100-meter breaststroke. At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, he also broke his own world record in the semi-final of the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 56.88″ and became the first man to break 57 seconds in the race.
He won gold in the 50 meter breaststroke for the third time at the World Championships, completing the triple-double, and he also took bronze in the 4 x 100 meter mixed medley relay alongside Davies, Guy, and Anderson. Peaty made this his most successful world championships ever by earning his third gold in the 4x100m medley relay and competing in the International Swimming League’s debut season in 2019.
He was also named team captain for London Roar, and he led his side to a second-place finish in the grand final in Las Vegas. On November 15, 2020, Peaty participated in Budapest as part of the London Roar squad in the International Swimming League tournament. With a timing of 55.49 seconds in the semi-final, he set a new world mark for the short-course 100m breaststroke, which was his first world record in short-course meters.
Then, a week later, he broke his own world record in the 100m breaststroke final, swimming 55.41 seconds. Peaty and three other medalists from the 2019 individual world championships have been pre-selected for the postponed Tokyo Olympics in December 2020. With addition, Peaty won the 100m breaststroke title on the first day of the 2021 British Swimming Olympic trials at the London Aquatics Centre in a time of 57.39 seconds.
In May 2021, he won his fourth consecutive gold medal at the European Championships in the 100m breaststroke and the 50m breaststroke.
He subsequently went on to win two more gold medals as part of the mixed 4 x 100 m medley and men’s 4 x 100 m medley relay teams. In July 2021, Adam became the first British swimmer to defend an Olympic title, and he won Britain’s first gold medal in the 100m breaststroke, defeating Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands in a time of 57.37 seconds in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (held in 2021).
Adam Peaty’s Personal Life
Adam Peaty is a swimmer who is single. He is engaged to Eirianedd Munro, a University student, and they are in a love relationship. Peaty met his future wife while studying at Loughborough University. In April 2020, he revealed that he and his wife were expecting a baby boy, George-Anderson Adetola Peaty, who was born on September 11th, 2020. Adam’s sexual orientation is that of a heterosexual man.
Adam Peaty’s Net Worth
As of 2022, Adam Peaty’s net worth ranges from $1 million to $5 million, however his actual income has yet to be revealed. However, we may safely conclude that his annual pay is in the hundreds of dollars. Adam has yet to get any endorsements. His swimming career is his main source of income.
Adam Peaty’s Body Measurement
Adam Peaty is a tall man, standing at 1.91 meters (6 feet 3 inches) and weighing 95 kg (209 lb). His golden hair and brown eyes are attractive. He still has the aura to rock the shirtless avatar despite his huge height and build. Adam’s physique is athletic.
Quick Facts
Olympic gold winner Rebecca Adlington served as Adam’s mentor. In August 2014, he achieved the World Record in the 50-meter breast stroke with a timing of 26.62 seconds. In the men’s 100-meter breaststroke, he and Alexander Dale Oen of Norway are both European Champions. From 2014 to 2019, he also won Male European Swimmer of the Year six times in a row. In the 2017 New Year Honours, he was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to swimming.