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Adam Peaty vowed to get faster and faster after surprising even himself at the World Championships in Budapest.

Peaty, 50m and 100m breaststroke world champion, took Great Britain’s 4x100m medley relay team from seventh place to the lead in the final event yesterday.

But the quartet of Chris WalkerHebborn, Peaty, James Guy and Duncan Scott ultimately had to settle for silver behind the US.

It was Britain’s seventh medal of the eight-day event, second only in the medal table behind the mighty United States.

Olympic champion Peaty astounded with the margin of his victories and has the 11 fastest times in history over 100m, and the six quickest in the non-Olympic 50m event.

Peaty won three gold medals at his first World Championships in Kazan, Russia, in 2015 and believes he is improving every year.

“Each year I’m going to continue, hopefully, to get faster and faster,” said Peaty, who won Britain’s first medal with 100m gold at the Rio Olympics.

“Every year I’m just gaining experience. I don’t really fully know myself. I keep surprising myself and surprising myself.

“Who knows when I’m going to fully know myself? It may take 10 years, it may take another year.”

Ben Proud in the 50m butterfly and the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team – Guy, Scott, Perth’s Stephen Milne and Nick Grainger – took Britain’s gold medal tally to four, while Proud and Guy claimed bronze medals in the 50m freestyle and 100m butterfly, respectively.

There was British interest in five of the eight finals yesterday.

Kathleen Dawson, Sarah Vasey, Charlotte Atkinson and Freya Anderson finished seventh in the women’s 4x100m medley relay won by the USA in a world record of 3:51.55.

Max Litchfield was fourth with a Commonwealth record in the men’s 400m individual medley as USA’s Chase Kalisz improved Michael Phelps’ 10-year-old championship record.

Kalisz clocked 4:05.90 and Litchfield 4:09.14.

Hannah Miley was eighth in the corresponding women’s event, won by Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu in a championship record of 4:29.33 – beating her own eight-year-old best.

Vasey earlier was sixth as USA’s Lilly King won 50m breaststroke gold in a world record of 29.40.

I keep surprising myself and surprising myself. ADAM PEATY

Picture: Getty. Powerful performer: Adam Peaty has impressed with the margin of his victories.