{"id":482667,"date":"2021-07-24T20:48:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T03:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=482667"},"modified":"2021-07-24T20:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T03:54:57","slug":"olympics-adam-peaty-cruises-to-57-63-in-100-breaststroke-semifinals-americans-michael-andrew-and-andrew-wilson-sneak-into-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympics-adam-peaty-cruises-to-57-63-in-100-breaststroke-semifinals-americans-michael-andrew-and-andrew-wilson-sneak-into-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics: Adam Peaty Cruises to 57.63 in 100 Breaststroke Semifinals; Americans Michael Andrew and Andrew Wilson Sneak into Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympics: Adam Peaty Cruises to 57.63 in 100 Breaststroke Semifinals; Americans Michael Andrew and Andrew Wilson Sneak into Final<\/strong><\/p>\n

Simply, it is unfathomable that anyone besides Adam Peaty<\/strong> will take gold in the men’s 100 breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympics. The British superstar has been the dominant performer through two rounds of the event. After producing a 57.56 in prelims, Peaty shaved his mustache and returned Sunday morning to swim a 57.63 to earn the top seed for the Olympic final by a half-second. Peaty has never lost this race internationally (he made his debut on the major racing circuit in 2014), and he will be looking to win a second straight Olympic gold medal.<\/p>\n

Peaty holds the world record in this event in 56.88, and expect Peaty to mount a major challenge to that record in the final.<\/p>\n

The Netherlands’\u00a0Arno Kamminga<\/strong> looks like the top challenger to Peaty, even if he is a major, major longshot. Kamminga swam a 58.19 in semifinals after improving his best time to 57.90 in prelims, improving his position as the second-fastest performer in history. Kamminga edged out Italy’s\u00a0Nicolo Martinenghi<\/strong> in the first semifinal, and Martinenghi ended up with the third-best qualifying time of 58.28.<\/p>\n

China’s\u00a0Yan Zibei<\/strong> was second in the second semifinal in 58.72, good for the fourth seed, ahead of the USA’s\u00a0Michael Andrew\u00a0<\/strong>in 58.99.\u00a0Great Britain’s\u00a0James Wilby<\/strong> (59.00) and Belarus’\u00a0Ilya Shymanovich<\/strong> (59.08) were sixth and seventh, respectively, while American\u00a0Michael Andrew<\/strong> got into the final as the eighth-place swimmer with his time of 59.18, just ahead of Germany’s\u00a0Fabien Schwingenschlogl\u00a0<\/strong>(59.32).<\/p>\n