Peaty not to be on top form at Commonwealth Games

The event, on Australia's Gold Coast, takes place just a few months before a home European Championships in Glasgow.

And while Olympic champion Peaty will go to Australia hoping to defend his 100m breaststroke title from four years ago, he knows his form will be unpredictable at the event.

"Next year is a European and Commonwealth Games year so I'm going to go to the Gold Coast and see what I've got," he told British Swimming.

"I'll probably be on a ¾ taper so won't be fully tapered but I'll go there, enjoy the atmosphere and hopefully retain my titles and push on in the breaststroke a little bit more.

"And then Europeans I want to continue with that and end a year on a high. In my mind, I've got plenty of things planned and long course is my race so I want to increase that gap between myself and second place."

Peaty won the sprint breaststroke double at the 2017 World Championships in Hungary, and won a first European short course title over the longer distance in Copenhagen, earlier this month.

He also won bronze in the 50m and hopes to learn from his experience in the 25m pool.

"This has been an amazing year. Obviously, I got the double world record in the 50m breaststroke and retained my titles in the 100m and 50m at the World Championships," he added.

"And now to top it all of I had a Sports Personality of the Year nomination again and my first European short course short title.

"I look forward to using what I've learnt in Denmark around my turns and dive and using that for the Commonwealth Games and Europeans in the summer next year."