GLASGOW: Britain’s swimming team added two gold medals to their European Championship tally on Sunday, a day after Adam Peaty opened the account with his world-record race in the 100-metre breaststroke.
Peaty earned Britain’s first gold medal by winning the 100-metre breaststroke on Saturday. The European aquatics federation (LEN) on Sunday corrected his 27.00 time to 27.10 still a world record citing ‘a problem with the race timing equipment.’
Georgia Davies won the women’s 50 backstroke, and Britain dominated the men’s 4x200 freestyle relay in the closing event of the day. Russia are the only other nation with three gold medals in swimming after the third day of competition.
Returning to the pool where she secured Commonwealth Games gold and silver four years ago, Davies won the final in 27.23 seconds, leaving her two hundredths short of the European record time she swam in her heat on Saturday.
Anastasiia Fesikova of Russia trailed by 0.08 for silver, while bronze medallist Mimosa Jallow of Finland finished 0.47 behind.
Britain and Russia went 1-2 again in the men’s relay, which the quartet of Calum Jarvis, Duncan Scott, Thomas Dean and James Guy won by 1.34 seconds. Italy was 2.26 behind for the bronze medal.