Peaty's Mentor Mel Marshall To Quit Britain In Leap To Australian Dolphins After Paris
Marshall guided Peaty for 17 years from a "reluctant" 12-year-old to “a soldier, a warrior, who’ll go over the top whatever you ask him to do” with a pioneering pantheon. After Paris, she will coach at the Griffith University High Performance Centre in Queensland
Australia has recruited Mel Marshall, Adam Peaty’s mentor and Britain’s most successful female coach, at the third time of asking and on the eve of the Paris Olympic Games, reports in The Times in the UK and the Daily Telegraph Down Under simultaneously reveal today.
Having been turned down by the first woman to be named British Swimming coach of the year, in 2016 and 2021, the two previous Olympic years in which Peaty claimed gold in the 100m breaststroke, the Dolphins have finally got their top woman.
Marshall, 42, handed in her notice as Lead Coach at the Aquatics GB Loughborough Performance Centre late last week. She will still be Britain's top female coach in Paris as she steers Peaty, the greatest pioneer of sprint breaststroke pace swimming has ever known, to his third Olympics.
Peaty has said that he has made no plans beyond Paris and will decide his future after “a full focus” on his third Games. Three years ago he became the first British swimmer ever to retain an Olympic swimming crown.
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