British Swimming Championships: Adam Peaty to miss April event, citing mental health reasons

Adam Peaty won 2 golds and a metallic medal astatine the Tokyo Olympics successful 2021, aft a golden and metallic astatine the Rio Games successful 2016

Britain's three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty has withdrawn from adjacent month's British Swimming Championships, citing intelligence wellness reasons.

But Peaty inactive planned connected competing astatine the 2024 Olympics Games successful Paris.

"This athletics has fixed maine everything I americium and I'm looking guardant to uncovering the emotion I person for it again," helium said.

Seven years agone successful Rio, Peaty won his archetypal Olympic golden medal successful the 100m breaststroke earlier retaining his rubric successful Japan successful 2021, wherever helium besides claimed golden successful the 4x100m mixed medley.

"Everyone wants to beryllium successful your seat, until they person to beryllium successful your seat," helium added. "Very fewer radical recognize what winning and occurrence does to an individual's intelligence health.

"They don't recognize the pressures these individuals enactment connected themselves, to triumph implicit and implicit again.

"As immoderate radical whitethorn know, I've struggled with my intelligence wellness implicit the past fewer years and I deliberation it's important to beryllium honorable astir it.

"I'm tired, not myself and I'm not enjoying the athletics arsenic I person done for the past decade."

In a glittering career, Peaty has besides won 8 World Championship golden medals, 17 golds astatine European Championships and 4 golds astatine the Commonwealth Games.

But present helium is acceptable to miss the British Championships, which instrumentality spot astatine Ponds Forge successful Sheffield from 4-9 April.

"While I americium continuing to train, I person decided to retreat from the British Swimming Champions adjacent month," said Peaty.

"This is with the sole intent of delivering the champion show imaginable successful Paris astatine the 2024 Olympic Games.

"Some mightiness recognise it arsenic burnout - I conscionable cognize that implicit the past fewer years I haven't had the answers. With help, present I cognize however I tin code the imbalance successful my life.

"I'm hugely grateful for each the enactment I americium receiving from my squad and household astatine British Swimming, on with my unthinkable sponsors, household and friends.

"As ever I convey the swimming assemblage and beyond for the unthinkable enactment I've everlastingly received."