Adam Peaty. Photo: British Swimming

Adam Peaty’s stunning 100m breaststroke world record of 57.00 has been amended to 57.10 after an issue with the race timing equipment was discovered.

Peaty’s sensational time, recorded at the Saturday afternoon session of the 2018 European Swimming Championships in Glasgow, is one of many performances affected by the technical problem.

Race officials revealed that the issue had come to light on Sunday, and that an incorrect configuration had resulted in all times being recorded 0.10 seconds faster than they actually were.

Thankfully for Peaty, even a 57.10 was faster than his previous world record of 57.13 set at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

The European Swimming League (LEN) has this afternoon released the following statement:

“During the afternoon competition session on Saturday 4 August 2018 the LEN Technical Swimming Committee became aware of a potential problem in relation to the race timing equipment for the first nine races of that session.

“Upon thorough investigation it became apparent that the starting mechanism had been incorrectly configured prior to the start of the session which resulted in all reported times being 0.10s faster due to a configuration delay of 0.10s.

“The LEN TSC working with the timing system operators carried out extensive tests to confirm this system configuration error and have, with the benefit of the necessary technical analysis, revised all recorded times for the first nine races during that session.

“The LEN TSC confirms that all times recorded during the first three competition sessions and after the first nine races of that session (subsequently) are accurate.”

All times recorded in affected races have now been increased by 0.10 seconds. The races affected by this technical problem were:

• Women’s 800m freestyle
• Men’s 100m breaststroke
• Women’s 100m butterfly
• Men’s 100m freestyle semi-finals
• Women’s 100m breaststroke semi-finals
• Men’s 200m butterfly semi-finals

The second world record set on Saturday, in the 50m backstroke by Russian Kliment Kolesnikov, remains unchanged as it was not one of the nine races affected.

Chris Spice, British Swimming National Performance Director, said: “We support LEN’s vigilance in this matter and appreciate the time they have taken to make sure all times are correct.

“We want this event to be remembered for the amazing achievements of the athletes so it is important that the results are correct. We don’t want this to take away from Adam’s amazing performance which we all experienced in a fantastic arena.”