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Swimming: Adam Peaty completes breaststroke gold double

<p>Britain's Adam Peaty completed the double of world breaststroke titles yesterday after adding the 50m title to his 100m crown &mdash; then claimed a third gold in the mixed medley</p>

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Britain's Adam Peaty

Britain's Adam Peaty

Kazan: Britain's Adam Peaty completed the double of world breaststroke titles yesterday after adding the 50m title to his 100m crown — then claimed a third gold in the mixed medley.

Britain's Adam Peaty. Pic/AFP
Britain's Adam Peaty. Pic/AFP 

The 20-year-old, who set the 50m world record of 26.42sec in Tuesday's semi-final, clocked 26.51 in the final with South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh, the 2013 world champion, taking silver, 0.15sec back.

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