Peaty retains world breaststroke title

Britain’s Adam Peaty failed to beat his own world record but was happy to defend the men’s 100-metre breaststroke title at the world aquatic championships in Hungary yesterday. Peaty clocked a new championships record of 57.47 seconds. Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden became the first woman to win four golds in the women’s 100m butterfly as the 23-year-old finished in 55.53secs for a championships record that was just 0.05secs from her world record set at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016. Sjostrom is the first reigning Olympic champion to add the world title in the event to her CV. Katinka Hosszu also defended her women’s 200m individual medley title in front of her home crowd with a time of two minutes, 07.00secs to take the gold medal.