Tag: Adam Peaty
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CAS restores world records denied to British swimmers
Four British swimmers, including triple world champion Adam Peaty, should be awarded world records they were denied in 2014 after officials failed to test them for a specific drug, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Friday. The swimmers – Peaty, Francesca Halsall, Jemma Lowe and Chris Walker Hebborn – have already broken their…
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The Nominees for the 2016 Laureus Awards are…
A glittering collection of the world’s greatest sports stars have been nominated for the 2016 Laureus World Sports Awards, following a ballot by the world’s media. Including Adam Peaty, Katie Ledecky, Michael Phelps and Daniel Dias.
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Peaty, Ledecky, Phelps and Dias honoured with nomination for Laureus Sports Award
Triple World Champion Adam Peaty has been honoured by worldwide sports writers with a nomination in the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award. Peaty not only world three world titles through 2015 he also lowered the world records first at British Swimming Championships in London and then at the World Championships in Kazan. He…
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LEN Awards 2015 – Cseh and Hosszu finish atop
World champions highlight the winners’ list of the 2015 LEN Awards. European athletes were dominant at last year’s showcase in Kazan, in most disciplines it was a hard call to choose among the best performers. The winners in swimming came from the same nation: Laszlo Cseh and Katinka Hosszu both represent Hungary. Earlier only the…
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Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 4
Katinka Hosszu: the one-woman show With six gold medals already in her possession, Katinka Hosszu might even lead the medal table on her own. Hungary’s Iron Lady added two more titles to her tally on Day 4. Italians enjoyed another fine day with two more golds, one delivered by Federica Pellegrini. German Marco Koch clinched…
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Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 1
Katinka Hosszu cracks WR in the heats, wins first gold in the evening Katinka Hosszu (HUN) was fresh to set the first world record of the 18th European Short-Course Swimming Championships in the morning heats of the opening day. Later she added the title in the 400m IM and his team-mate Peter Bernek also earned…
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British Swimming’s Swimmer of the Year: Adam Peaty
After a stunning 2015, including two world records and a hugely successful World Championships in Kazan, Adam Peaty picked up the Swimmer of the Year Award at the inaugural British Swimming Awards in Manchester. He spoke of his pride at winning, but how it only made him strive for more.
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Adam Peaty: ‘It’s brutal. I’m going to get better, so that no one can get near me’
“It’s a false ideology, really,†Adam Peaty says coolly, his three world championship gold medals clinking around his neck, as he considers one of the most cliched and overheated words in sport: pressure. Peaty, who has just returned from Russia, where he was the dominant male swimmer while winning the 50m and 100m breaststroke world…
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