Adam Peaty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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British swimmer
Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1994
Place of Birth: Uttoxeter, England, United Kingdom
Profession: swimmer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
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About Adam Peaty
- Adam George Peaty, (born 28 December 1994) is a British competitive swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke.
- He has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games.
- He won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Olympics, the first by a male British swimmer in 24 years.
- He is the current holder of the world record in 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events. Peaty is the 2016 Olympic Champion, an eight-time World Champion, a twelve-time European Champion and a three-time Commonwealth Champion.
- He has broken world records 11 times and currently holds two world records in the 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events, becoming the first man to swim under 26 seconds for the 50 metre breaststroke and the first to swim the 100 metre breaststroke under both 58 and 57 seconds.
- He is the first swimmer ever to win both sprint breaststroke events at the same World championships, and the most successful British swimmer in a single World Championships.
- He is one of only three swimmers, with David Wilkie and Rebecca Adlington, to have won gold medals at all four major international events (Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games), and the only swimmer to win all four major gold medals in the same single event at the same time, a feat he completed in winning the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Olympics.
- Peaty is a five-time European swimmer of the year which he has won consecutively from 2014 to 2018, and also a two-time World swimmer of the year in 2015 and 2018.
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