Fastest animals
The fastest land animal is the cheetah, which has a recorded speed of . The peregrine falcon is the fastest bird and the fastest member of the animal kingdom with a diving speed of . The fastest animal in the sea is the black marlin, which has a recorded speed of .
Adam Peaty
Peaty is the 2016 Olympic Champion, a five-time World Champion, a twelve-time European Champion and a three-time Commonwealth Champion. He has broken world records 10 times and currently holds two world records in the 50 and 100 metre breaststroke events becoming the first man to swim under 26 seconds for the 50 metre breaststroke and the first to swim the 100 metre breaststroke under 58 seconds. He is the first swimmer ever to win both sprint breaststroke events at the same World championships, and the most successful British swimmer in a single World Championships. He is one of only three British swimmers, with David Wilkie and Rebecca Adlington, to have won gold medals at all four major international events (Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth Games), and the only swimmer to win all four major gold medals in the same single event at the same time, a feat he completed in winning the 100 metres breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Peaty is a five-time European swimmer of the year which he has won consecutively from 2014 to 2018, and also a two-time World swimmer of the year in 2015 and 2018.