RÅ«ta MeilutytÄ—
Rūta Meilutyte at the Olympic Summer Games 2012 in London
Rūta Meilutyte (* March 19, 1997 in Kaunas ) is a Lithuanian swimmer and gold medalist in the 100 meters breaststroke at the 2012 Olympics in London. With 1:04,35 min, it also holds the world record over this distance and beyond even those over 50 meters breaststroke.
Career
Private life
Rūta Meilutytės mother died at the age of 34 in 2001 in a car accident. Meilutyte grew up with two older brothers Margiris and Mindaugas on under the supervision of her grandmother and her father Saulius Meilutis. Meilutyte learned at the Milikoniai Middle School in Šilainiai. She played basketball four years, finished the training but after a broken leg. 2008 her father moved to England to work with the disabled; 2010 followed him his daughter.
Sporting career
With swimming Rūta began when she was six years old. For nine years she trained in an outdated and not suitable for international competitions swimming pool from the Soviet era in Šilainiai. My first coach in Lithuania was Giedrius Martinionis.
Meilutyte currently trained with an athletic scholarship in the context of Leander Swimming Programs at Plymouth College in the English Plymouth.
2011 Meilutyte secured at the European Youth Olympic Festival in the northeastern Turkish city of Trabzon a complete set of medals and won it on the 100 meter breaststroke. She qualified then for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, without ever having participated previously at World or European Championships. In the semifinals, she improved her personal best on a new European record and pulled superior to the final. In this she started on the basis of their inputs as Mitfavoritin and could before Rebecca Soni, the reigning world champion, win over this distance. Meilutyte is the first Olympic swimming champion of independent Lithuania. About 100 meters freestyle difference Meilutyte few days after her Olympic victory with the 29th place in the run- off. Also, about half the distance they did not come forward and the No. 26 out despite personal best.
In the Short Course World Championships in 2012, she presented the semi-final with 29.51 s on a new European record in the 50m breast, they further improved by seven hundredths of a second at her victory in the final. Also about 100 m breaststroke, she won again in European record time of 1:03,52 min the gold medal. In addition, she took over the 100m individual medley in second place.
At the World Championships 2013 in Barcelona she put in the semifinals with 1:04,35 min to set a new world record in the 100 meter breaststroke and later became World Champion. In the semifinals, they improved over 50 meters with 29.48 s the first few hours put in place by Yuliya Efimova with 29.78 s in a lead world record. In the final, she won the silver medal just behind Efimova. In October 2013, it improved the swimming World Cup in Moscow by Rebecca Soni in 2009 established short-course world record in the 100m breaststroke by 34 hundredths of a second in 1:02,36 min.