Double world record holder Adam Peaty will be targeting more Olympic gold at Tokyo this summer.
Here the PA news agency looks at the extraordinary career of 26-year-old Peaty, the reigning men's 100 metre breaststroke Olympic champion, in numbers.
2 – Olympic medals, both won at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. He claimed silver in the 4 x 100m men's medley relay, as well as gold in the 100m breaststroke.
28 – years elapsed since Peaty became Great Britain's first men's Olympic champion after Adrian Moorhouse won gold in the 100m breaststroke in 1988.
8 – World Championship gold medals. Achieved 50m and 100m breaststroke double in 2015, 2017 and 2019 and part of two successful medley relay teams.
13 – times that Peaty has broken the world record.
🚨 World Record! Spectacular swim from @adam_peaty to lower his own world record in the 100m breaststroke He goes 56.88 to become the first man under 57 seconds and qualify fastest for the final! ⏰#Gwangju2019 pic.twitter.com/uh76GtYt6S — Team GB (@TeamGB) July 21, 2019
56.88 – Peaty's 100m breaststroke world record, set at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju. No other swimmer has broken 58 seconds.
20 – Peaty owns the top 20 all-time times in the 100m breaststroke.
It's the 15th time @adam_peaty has gone sub-58 and he now owns the top 20 all-time times in the Men's 100m Breaststroke! 😲🐐@jameswilby also goes under the consideration time, with both men already pre-selected for @TeamGB this summer #BSST21 — British Swimming (@britishswimming) April 14, 2021
25.95 – Peaty's 50m breaststroke world record, set at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest.
12 – European titles won at three Championships in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
25 – number of gold medals won at international meetings.
2017 – year Peaty was awarded an MBE for services to swimming.
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