PLYMOUTH swimmer Ruta Meilutyte produced a storming heat swim in the 50m breaststroke event at the World Championships in Kazan on Saturday morning. After losing her 100m title on Tuesday, the 18-year-old Lithuanian world record holder swam more than half-a-second faster than anyone else in the one-length preliminaries. Olympic champion Meilutyte, who had to settle … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Ruta Meilutyte was unable to defend her World Championship 100m breaststroke title in Kazan. The 18-year-old Olympic champion and world record holder had to settle for second in Tuesday’s final, with controversial Russian Yuliya Efimova winning in her own country. Efimova, who served a 16-month ban for failing a drugs test, clocked 1:05.66, … Continue reading
REIGNING champion Ruta Meilutyte had no problems easing through the 100m breaststroke heats at the World Championships in Kazan. The 18-year-old Plymouth Leander swimmer, who is Olympic champion and world record holder at the event, won her heat in a time of 1:06:81. That ranked her fourth overall going into Monday evening’s semi-finals, with Russian … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Ruta Meilutyte claimed a second gold medal at the Sette Colli Trophy Meet in Rome. A day after winning the 100m race in a time of 1:05.68, the 18-year-old world, European and Olympic champion clocked 30.07 seconds to triumph in the 50m event. Sweden’s Jennie Johansson was second in 30.64, with Netherlands Moniek … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander swimmer Ruta Meilutyte continued her hot form in Italy by winning the women’s 100m breaststroke event at the Sette Colli Trophy Meet in Rome. Fresh from her victory at the Mare Nostrum Series in Canet, world record holder Meilutyte clocked 1:05.68 on Friday evening. That was the 18-year-old’s second fastest time of the … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander swimmer Ruta Meilutyte set another world leading time on the second day of the Mare Nostrum Series in Canet-en-Rousillion. Just 24 hours after clocking 1:05.46 in the 100m breaststroke event, which was the fastest time of the year, Meilutyte swam 29.88 seconds for the 50m race. Her time was a new meet record … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Ruta Meilutyte set the fastest time in the world this year for the 100m breaststroke with a stunning 1:05.46 at the Mare Nostrum series in Canet-en-Roussillon, France. World, Olympic and European champion Meilutyte knocked nearly half a second off Yuliya Efimova’s previous best 2015 mark of 1:05.89. Denmark’s 200m world record holder Rikke … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S international swimmers Ruta Meilutyte, Ben Proud (pictured left) and Mindaugas Sadauska will be in action this weekend at the Mare Nostrum event in Canet-en-Roussillon, France. The trio will be using the competition as a warm-up for this summer’s FINA World Championships in Kazan. Double Commonwealth Games champion Proud will be part of the Great … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander star Ruta Meilutyte jumped to the top of the 50m breaststroke world rankings by winning the British Championships time trial in London. The world record holder clocked 30.58 seconds for the one-length race to beat Great Britain’s Sophie Taylor, who clocked 30.77. Despite being the fastest time this year, it is well off … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander swimmers dominated the heats of the men’s 50m freestyle event on the penultimate day of the British Swimming Championships in London. Commonwealth Games champion Ben Proud was fastest into the final with a time of 22.16, but he was closely followed by two of his team-mates. Junior Tom Fannon produced a great performance … Continue reading