Adam Peaty becomes three-time quadruple European champion with relay gold

LOUGHBOROUGH’S Adam Peaty become a three-time quadruple European Champion at Glasgow, having won the 50m and 100m breaststroke and 4 x 100m mixed and men’s relays.

He said: “Britain is looking strong at the minute individually and in relays. Sometimes I’ve got too caught up in the outcome with people talking about World Records as soon as I did the heats and asking if I was going to get the four gold medals.

“I have to take each stroke as it comes, each event as it comes and not got caught up in the outcomes of everything and that’s been a massive learning curve that has hopefully been set up for the rest of my career.”

Amongst the impressive Team GB medal haul there was more Loughborough success with Georgia Davis claiming gold in the 50m backstroke, gold in the 4x100m mixed medley, silver in the 100m backstroke and bronze in the 4x100m relay, Imogen Clark winning silver in the 50m breaststroke and Molly Renshaw winning bronze in the 200m breaststoke.

Imogen Clark, in her first British team said: “I guess I was just a late bloomer which is why I never made any junior teams, but I’ve had such an up and down year so to end it like this is unbelievable!”

Jack Burnell fought hard to keep in medal contention at Glasgow 2018, but couldn’t keep up with the pace in a 10k race that ended with a photo finish.

The Loughborough based marathon swimmer finished seventh overall in a field of 35, with training-mate Toby Roobinson in 9th and Caleb Hughes in 31st.

Burnell was in a breakaway pack battling foor the bronze on the final stretch but fell back in a race where World Champion Ferry Weertman touched out Hungarian Kristof Rasovszky.

He said: “It was a sore ending in Rio and a bit of a sore ending here too. It was a bit physical out there and in wetsuits, but I’m not making any excuses.

“It hasn’t gone the way I’ve wanted, with two broken ribs in one season so wan’t coming into this fully fit.”

Robinson added: “It was so hard, the last 5k in particular. I think I picked up the pace at the front ut it was just so exhausting by the end. It’s taken me 10 or 12 races to get inside the top 10, so it’s all about experience for me.”