Ruta proves a point in heats of 50m breaststroke event at World Champs
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Ruta proves a point in heats of 50m breaststroke event at World Champs

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

Ruta forced to settle for second in World Championship final
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Ruta forced to settle for second in World Championship final

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

Defending champion Ruta Meilutyte eases through heats at Worlds
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Defending champion Ruta Meilutyte eases through heats at Worlds

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 continues her hot form in Rome
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Plymouth Leander’s Ruta Meilutyte continues her hot form in Rome

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’s Ruta Meilutyte clocks fastest time of the year in France
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Plymouth’s Ruta Meilutyte clocks fastest time of the year in France

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 swim stars face World Championship warm-up test in Canet
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Plymouth swim stars face World Championship warm-up test in Canet

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

Ruta Meilutyte leaps to the top of the rankings after London win
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Ruta Meilutyte leaps to the top of the rankings after London win

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 trio storm into men’s 50m freestyle final in London
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Plymouth Leander trio storm into men’s 50m freestyle final in London

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