The 22-year-old is now one of the favourites to win the BBC award
Superstar swimmer Adam Peaty has made a splash in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year betting after breaking the 50m breaststroke twice in a day just 48 hours after landing the 100m title at the World Championships.
The Olympic champion took gold in the 100m event on Sunday and now holds the top 10 times in the world for the event after going close to beating his own world record in the qualifiers.
On Tuesday he continued his dominance by smashing his own 50m world record by a massive three-tenths as he qualified for the semi-finals, before bettering that effort the same afternoon smashing through the 26-second barrier to record a time of 25.9 seconds.
His achievements in Budapest have not gone unnoticed with bookmakers trimming the 22-year-old from as big as 50/1 to as short as 12/1 (best price 33/1) for this year’s Sports Personality of the Year. Oddschecker punters have been piling in on the Breaststroke king with over 60% of bets in the last 24 hours on Peaty.
