Adam Peaty (100m Breast WR Holder) does the Oly Tri at T100 London

Pretty unusual step for a sprint breaststroker. :slight_smile:

https://swimswam.com/adam-peaty-continues-his-2028-olympic-campaign-with-first-olympic-triathlon/

I think his wife and her dad, Gordon Ramsey, were all going to do it as a family event (and to raise money for charity). Gordon had a medical issue, so didn’t race (but did some emcee duties).

His times were 19+1:06+57 for a 2:34 in case people don’t want to search around for what they were.

I can say I’m faster than an Olympian. :rofl:

He was allegedly beaten by 4 people on the swim, but I went to check the first one on strava and normally this guy swims 1min/100 slower, so I reckon he skipped half of the swim…

That’s why I posted the times…this way we can all feel good about ourselves !!! According to google the guy weights 95 kilos so the run time makes sense and I expected him to bike a bit faster.

Peaty said it was his first open water swim. The “Ramsey Team” set off all alone, so Peaty was leading their mini wave and had no one to follow and said he couldn’t swim in a straight line. So if he learns to sight, he’d be faster.

That’s because all he does is dolphin kick. Breaststroke has become a farce.

considering the chaos everybody else had to endure in the mass start I’d call it an advantage. I just had to overtake people left and right, smacking (not on purpose) quite a few with a big speed differential…
Also he said he doesn’t do distance, perhaps I could beat him on IM distance :stuck_out_tongue:

True. He probably didn’t train the swim at all though, as he is still training 50/100m BS. If he quit pro swimming and trained for an Ironman, his swim would probably get faster.

I wonder how long he was into the bike before deciding a TT bike will be his next purchase.