Great Britain’s Adam Peaty entered Sunday’s 100 meter breaststroke final as the clear favorite to win the gold medal, as he broke the world record in the prelims with a time of 57.55 seconds.
What do you do for an encore? In Peaty’s case you put forth a dominant showing in the final, winning the race in 57.13 seconds and breaking his own world record. Peaty won by the largest margin of victory in the history of this event at the Olympic Games, beating South Africa’s Cameron Van Den Burgh by 1.56 seconds.
The previous record for largest margin of victory: 0.