Britain's Peaty breaks 50 metres breaststroke world record

KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) - Britain's Adam Peaty broke the men’s 50 metres breaststroke world record at the world swimming championships on Tuesday.

Britain's Peaty breaks 50 metres breaststroke world record

(Reuters)





Peaty’s time of 26.42 seconds broke the previous record of 26.62 seconds set by South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh in the morning heats earlier on Tuesday.









(Reporting by Rod Gilmour, editing by Pritha Sarkar)


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