{"id":473397,"date":"2021-05-18T09:55:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=473397"},"modified":"2021-05-18T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T23:25:05","slug":"european-championships-day-2-finals-peaty-takes-fourth-title-in-57-66-tie-for-womens-100-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/european-championships-day-2-finals-peaty-takes-fourth-title-in-57-66-tie-for-womens-100-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"European Championships, Day 2 Finals: Adam Peaty Takes Fourth Title In 57.66; Tie For Women’s 100 Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Peaty<\/strong> won his fourth straight 100m breaststroke title as he went inside 58secs for the 17th time in 57.66 at the European Championships<\/strong> in Budapest.<\/p>\n

Kliment Kolesnikov<\/strong> set his second world record in as many days as he lowered his own 50 back mark to 23.8o en-route to his second title of the meet – of which more here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Gold was shared in the women’s 100 fly where Frenchwoman Marie Wattel<\/strong> of France and Anna Ntountounaki<\/strong> both touched in 57.37 as the latter became the first Greek woman to win a European title.<\/p>\n

Ranomi Kromowidjojo<\/strong> won the women’s 50 free in 23.97 to upgrade from bronze at Glasgow 2018 and Simona Quadarella<\/strong> defended her 800 free title in 8:20.83.<\/p>\n

Great Britain<\/strong> won the mixed 4×200 free as Abbie Wood<\/strong> and Freya Anderson<\/strong> claimed their second relay titles of the meet.<\/p>\n

Link to results<\/a><\/p>\n

Link to live stream<\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Perottino \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto<\/p><\/div>\n

Peaty had won the last three European titles, picking up his first in Berlin in 2014, weeks after he had announced himself on the international stage with victory at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

The Briton won the title at the 2018 edition in a then world record 57.10 – although that had been revised from 57.00 because of faulty timing – with Kamminga in seventh that day in 59.69.<\/p>\n

Peaty turned in 26.64, 0.21 ahead of Ilya Shymanovich<\/strong>, with Kamminga third and Wilby back in fifth.<\/p>\n

The world record-holder started to come away on the second 50 – splitting 31.02 – and another glide into the wall saw him take the title once more.<\/p>\n

Behind him came Kamminga who claimed his first international long-course medal in 58.10 with Wilby producing an astonishing second 50 of 30.91 – the fastest in the field – to take bronze in 58.58.<\/p>\n

The extent of Peaty’s dominance and roll-call in history cannot be over-stated.<\/p>\n

As well as being his 17th voyage through the 58 barrier, it was his 10th-fastest time – 0.01 quicker than his semi-final – but not even his season’s best which stands at 57.39 from the British trials last month.<\/p>\n

Neither is it a championship record as that still stands from Glasgow 2018.<\/p>\n

He said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was good, it was a very tactical race. That’s right at the edge of what I can do mid-season, with my moustache!<\/p>\n

“Coming out here, I just wanted to enjoy it. Once I hit taper and am properly shaved, I’ll have a nice bit of preparation into the Olympics and it’ll be a good time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s always nice to have something to improve on. Coming into this week, I was already doing hard sessions and then had a bit of rest coming into this.<\/p>\n

“It’s just testament to how powerful my stroke is feeling, so come the Olympics, it’s hopefully going to be a good show.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s going to be a tough battle in Tokyo. There’s going to be a lot of guys going low 58s or 57 high, and it’s going to be an interesting time for 100m breaststroke.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Arno Kamminga: Photo Courtesy: Kees-Jan van Overbeeke<\/p><\/div>\n

It was the first time on an international long-course podium for Kamminga who has made giant strides since the 2019 worlds where he looked on as Peaty went 56.88 and – as he told Swimming World<\/a> – wondered “how the hell can you go 56?”<\/p>\n

The Netherlands swimmer is the only man apart from Peaty to have gone through the 58 barrier when he swam to 57.90 last month.<\/p>\n

He said:<\/p>\n

“It was a good race. I tried to race with Adam, it\u2019s great to have a face-to-face duel at last and I\u2019m really happy with my time.<\/p>\n

“To get a silver behind him makes me satisfied.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wilby – who won silver behind Peaty at the 2019 worlds – added:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very happy considering how the rest of the year was with the restrictions.<\/p>\n

“Our eyes are on the summer so we are all very pleased to have some races under our belt and get experience before the Olympics.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n