Adam Peaty could swim 200m breaststroke in Commonwealth Games

Adam Peaty could be in the hunt for five medals at this summer's home Commonwealth Games after revealing he is considering swimming in the 200metres breaststroke.

The triple Olympic gold medallist is the world record holder and world champion in both the 50m and 100m breaststroke.

But Peaty says he is also going to give the more unfamiliar 200m a go at trials in Sheffield in April. If successful, that would take his tally of events at Birmingham 2022 to five, including the men's and mixed medley relays.

'I'm going to probably swim the 200m at trials, just to see how it goes,' admitted Peaty after being named among the first swimmers in Team England's squad.

'That will be like an expedition race. I've no idea what time I will do. I've not done the 200m at trials since 2016 when I went out in 59 seconds and came back in a coffin!'

'The Australians are much better at that long distance breaststroke and it's going to be a packed field, but I'll see how that goes.

'You've got to keep it fresh. What has worked well for me in the past was to do the 200m just for endurance training.

'I need to be uncomfortable in a scenario where I am not winning. That is something I have learned over the last few months off.'

Peaty's last major defeat came at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in 2018, when he took silver in the 50m – which is not an Olympic event.

That shock loss to South African Cameron van der Burgh spurred the Brit on to break the 100m world record a few months later, before he went on to win two gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics last summer.

Peaty is now keen to put right that Gold Coast upset in Birmingham, which is close to where he lives and trains in Loughborough, as well as his birthplace of Uttoxeter.

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