EASY PEAT
ADAM PEATY hailed the Glasgow crowd for sparking his golden swimming hat-trick with a stunner in last night’s 50 metres breaststroke final.
Peaty, 25, couldn’t quite topple his own world record but set a championship best of 26.09 seconds.
That made it Euro title No.11 for the Englishman – more than any other Brit in history.
He said: “It’s been incredible. I don’t think people understand how much a home crowd gives us. You hear them roaring and that’s an extra 10 or 20 per cent, depending how you use it.”
Peaty is gunning for a fourth gold in today’s 4x100 medley BY MARK WOODS relay before targeting more titles – and records – next year.
He added: “I missed a few strokes which cost me zeropoint-zero something but I don’t think it would have got me the world record. I’m just looking forward to South Korea and getting around that mark again.”
Siobhan-Marie O’Connor missed bronze in the 200m individual medley by twohundredths of a second as Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu made it five in a row.
And rising star Freya Anderson, 17, was fourth in the 100m freestyle – won by Swede Sarah Sjostrom – in a European junior record of 53.16 secs.