Training with Olympic champion Adam Peaty might sound like a daunting prospect but Cumbrian swimmer Edward Baxter is using that experience to take him to the next level.

The 20-year-old has been training with Peaty since 2016 following his Olympic success at Rio, and has improved significantly training at Loughborough National Training Centre. The breaststroker has a host of British National titles but is focused on the World trials in April as he aims to make the Great Britain squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

"I’m Adam’s training partner so I train with him every day. It’s pretty cool to know the guy next to you is the fastest swimmer on the planet," said Baxter.

"When I was 17, I started looking around to see where I would pursue my senior swimming career. I found a few different clubs and looked at a few different places.

"I went to train with Adam and Mel Marshall. After the first round of training, she asked me if I wanted to come on a six-week training camp to Australia. We went to Australia and I’ve trained with her ever since then.

"We’ve got a camp, leading into December. In December, we’ve got English short-course nationals which will be a good stepping stone towards April, when the World trials are.

"That’ll be a nice thing to tide us over, before we get towards April."

Baxter was speaking at a SportsAid event in the House of Commons as part of the charity’s new partnership with GVC Holdings, meeting with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Danny Crates and Lizzie Simmonds.

The swimmer, from Cockermouth, has been supported by the charity.

The 2017 Youth Commonwealth Games champion said: "My first British record, I broke that when I was 16.

"That was the first time I stepped back and thought all the hard work I’d done was for. That was over 200m. Breaking that was the first time I went ‘wow’ and realised that was what you train for.

"My first national title or winning at the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2015, those were probably the three highlights of my career so far.

"SportsAid was a massive help because I’m in a group of training partners who are pretty much all full-time swimmers. We all swim full-time and because, there’s no education, the members are going through we get to go away on a lot of camps."

*GVC is proud to be championing the next generation of British athletes by providing them with financial support and personal development opportunities in partnership with SportsAid. Please visit https://gvc-plc.com to find out more about the group.