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Urgent: Britain's Peaty breaks 100m breaststroke world record in Rio Olympics

Xinhua, August 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Britain's Adam Peaty broke his own world record for the men's 100m breaststroke in the heats of the Olympic Games on Saturday.

Peaty clocked 57.55 seconds to beat the previous best 57.92 seconds, set by him on April 17, 2015. Endit