By David Rieder
It’s not as though Adam Peaty was an underdog coming into the 100 breast at the Olympics Games. He entered as the world record-holder with a time of 57.92, more than a half-second faster than anyone else had ever swum.
Sarah Sjostrom entered with a similar rankings advantage as her world record-time of 55.64 in the 100 fly is more than three tenths ahead of what everybody else in history had ever done. Dana Vollmer was not that far behind Sjostrom in prelims (56.26 to 56.56), but Sjostrom entered with such a cushion that not much could have happened in prelims to move the needle.
Peaty did, though. He topped all qualifiers with a 57.55, almost a second and a half faster than anyone else. He broke his world record by almost four tenths. The margin between Peaty and number-two qualifier Yasuhiro Koseki (1.36) was actually one one-hundredth greater than the margin between Koseki and the two swimmers who tied for 16th, Glenn Snyders and Daniel Gyurta.
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