Adam Peaty to take advice from Sir Chris Hoy after targeting LA Olympics

Five-time world champion Adam Peaty wants to swim at three more Olympic Games.

And Peaty, who won Great Britain’s first gold of the 2016 Rio Games in the 100 metres breaststroke, will seek advice from six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy about serial winning to ensure he is at the top until the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.

Hoy, with whom Peaty shares an agent, has inspired many to take up cycling and the 22-year-old from Uttoxeter hopes to do the same with swimming.

Peaty told Press Association Sport: “By the time I’m 30, 32, when I want to retire, hopefully that legacy is going to be there.

“There’s going to be some young whipper-snapper following in my path and hopefully they’re going to be British. It’s just been announced – LA 2028. I’ve got to be there.”

Peaty will be approaching his 34th birthday by the time LA hosts the Olympics, but he believes advances in training will help him stay at the top through Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024 and on to LA.

Anthony Ervin of the United States was 35 when he won 50m freestyle gold in Rio, when 23-time Olympic champion Michael Phelps retired aged 31.

Peaty added: “We’ll see. I live for today, anything could happen. But I’m looking forward to whatever happens.

“It’s just getting more professional. People understand that and know how to get the longevity out of it.”

Hoy was 36 at London 2012 when he won his fifth and British record sixth Olympic gold.

Fellow swimmer Rebecca Adlington has long been a mentor for Peaty, who was on Thursday night going out for dinner with Hoy to lean on his experience.

“Rebecca has mentored me for a few years now. I see her as more of a friend now,” Peaty added.

“I’ve got dinner with Chris tonight. We’ll see what he’s got to say. I’m pretty certain it’s ‘win, win again and win with class’. That’s the main motto now. I’ve learned that from a psychologist I’ve been working with.

“Winning is amazing when you keep doing it. But keeping yourself active, keeping yourself motivated to keep doing it is a whole different ball game.”

Peaty claimed the double-double at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary last week, winning the 50m and 100m breaststroke titles he had won two years earlier in Kazan, Russia.

The margin of his victories astounded and his long-term aim is ‘Project 56’ – swimming the 100m breaststroke in under 57 seconds – and gold in Tokyo. His world record is 57.13secs.

Peaty, following a rare blow out this month, will return to the pool in September with next April’s Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast and August’s European Championships in Glasgow his 2018 targets.

To rival Hoy’s British record haul of Olympic gold medals Peaty will have to expand his repertoire.

With the 50m event not on the Olympic programme, Peaty must look at the 200m breaststroke which will demand he adds endurance to his power.

Peaty added: “I’m going to try to explore that. It’s time to move the event on.”