Great Britain’s Adam Peaty repeated as world 100m breaststroke champion with the second-fastest time in history on Monday.
Peaty clocked 57.47 seconds, trailing only his Rio Olympic-winning swim of 57.13. American Kevin Cordes took second, a distance 1.32 seconds behind. Russian Kirill Prigoda earned bronze.
“It’s going to be so hard to get back what I had in Rio,” Peaty said on the BBC.
The last U.S. world medal in this event came in 2007, when Brendan Hansen repeated as world champ.
Peaty, 22, now holds the 11 fastest times ever in the 100m breast, all set since 2015.