Adam Peaty twice lowered his own 50m breaststroke world record as he became the first man to swim inside 26 seconds and Emily Seebohm won bronze in the 100m backstroke on a thrilling night at the World Championships in Budapest.
Ruta Meilutyte was fourth in the 100m breaststroke and Mitch Larkin came sixth in the men’s 100m backstroke at the Duna Arena as the third day concluded by the River Danube.
Adam already has one gold medal to his name this week after winning the 100m breaststroke in the second fastest time in history.
The Briton then looked on as Cameron van der Burgh became the second fastest man ever in the 50m in the morning prelims – his time of 26.54 an African record – only for Adam to lower his own world record of 26.42 to 26.10.
He returned in the evening to crack the 26-second mark in 25.95, smoke coming off the water as he left his rivals in his slipstream.
And all with the final to come on Wednesday evening.
He beamed: “I was on such a massive high from the morning and it was so hard to ignore the fact that I did a world record in the morning and try to get myself emotionally ready, but I’ve learned from the experiences I’ve had over the last two, three years.
“I didn’t think I was going to do that. I thought I was…
