2026 GB Swimming Championships: Adam Peaty holds off Filip Nowacki and Max Morgan within the males’s 100m breaststroke

He may be the outdated man in a sea of youth, however Adam Ramsay-Peaty nonetheless has lots left to present two years out from the Olympic Games LA28, storming to victory within the males’s 100m breaststroke on the 2026 GB Swimming Championships on Tuesday (14 April).

Flanked on both facet by teenage phenoms Filip Nowacki and Max Morgan, the 31-year-old led from begin to end on the London Aquatics Centre, clocking a time of 58.97 seconds to place his rivals, each close to and much, on discover forward of the 2026 Commonwealth Games.

That contains coaching associate and eight-time Island Games gold medallist Nowacki, who touched the wall second in a time of 59.39 seconds, adopted carefully by 18-year-old Morgan in third at 59.56 seconds.

“It’s great to race these young guys,” Ramsay-Peaty informed broadcasters after the race. “They keep on my toes, and I got the best out of myself by racing these guys today.”

“Coming into these championships, I just felt anything like 59-mid would be pretty good,” he added. “I just said to myself, ‘what have I got to lose? And it was nothing, so why not give everything and risk it. And it worked out.”

Controlling the race along with his trademark attacking model, the six-time Olympic medallist produced a mighty remaining surge to carry off a hard-charging Nowacki, because the teenager tried to overtake his mentor at AP Race within the closing meters.

“[We’ve] got some talented youngsters coming through the sport, especially in this event,” acknowledged Ramsey-Peaty, placing his arms round Noiwacki and Morgan. “When I do retire one day, this event is safe in the world.”

19-year-old Eva Okaro definitely supplied the same degree of optimism within the ladies’s 100m freestyle, storming to victory forward of Evelyn Davis (53.99) and Freya Colbert (54.02) in a time of 53.75 seconds on the London Aquatics Centre.

Keanna Macinnes dominated the pool within the ladies’s 200m butterfly (2:07.02), whereas three-time Olympic champion James Guy led everything of the boys’s 400m freestyle, clocking 4:18.67 to win yet one more British title.

More motion is due up from the 2026 GB Swimming Championships on Wednesday (15 April), with the ladies’s 1500m freestyle, males’s 50m breaststroke, males’s 200m butterfly, ladies’s 100m backstroke and males’s 400m particular person medley set to take centre stage.