Rūta Meilutytė

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Rūta Meilutytė at the London 2012 Summer Olympics

Personal information
Surname: Rūta Meilutytė
Nation: LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania
Swimming style (s) : Freestyle, chest
Society: Plymouth Leander
Birthday: March 19, 1997
Place of birth: Kaunas
Size: 1.72 m
Weight: 64 kg
Medal table
Medals
Meilutytė with other Lithuanian swimmers during the London 2012 Summer Olympics .

Rūta Meilutytė (born March 19, 1997 in Kaunas ) is a former Lithuanian swimmer and winner of the gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . With 1: 04.35 min she also holds the world record over this distance as well as the one over 50 meters chest.

Career

Private life

Rūta Meilutytė's mother died in a car accident in 2001 at the age of 34. Meilutytė grew up with two older brothers, Margiris and Mindaugas, under the supervision of their grandmother and father, Saulius Meilutis. Meilutytė studied at the Milikoniai Middle School in Šilainiai . She played basketball for four years , but stopped training after a broken leg. In 2008 her father moved to England to work with the disabled; In 2010 his daughter followed him.

Athletic career

Rūta started swimming when she was six years old. For nine years she trained in an obsolete swimming pool from the Soviet era in Šilainiai, which was not suitable for international competitions . Your first trainer in Lithuania was Giedrius Martinionis.

Meilutytė is currently training on an athletic scholarship as part of the Leander Swimming Program at Plymouth College in Plymouth, England .

Meilutytė gained her first international experience at the International Children's Games 2010 in Manama / Bahrain, where she won two gold medals and one silver medal in the breast and freestyle disciplines. In 2011, Meilutytė secured a complete set of medals at the European Summer Youth Olympic Festival 2011 in the north-eastern Turkish city ​​of Trabzon and won the 100-meter chest. She then qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London without ever having participated in World or European Championships . In the semifinals, she improved her best time to a new European record and made it into the final. In this she started as a co-favorite due to her previous performances and was able to win ahead of Rebecca Soni , the reigning world champion over this route. Meilutytė is the first Olympic swimming champion in independent Lithuania . In the 100 meter freestyle Meilutytė retired a few days after her Olympic victory with the 29th place in the preliminary run. Even over half the distance, despite her personal best performance, she couldn't get past the lead and place 26.

At the 2012 Short Course World Championships , she set a new European record over 50 meters in the semifinals with 29.51 seconds, which she improved by seven hundredths of a second when she won the final. She also won the gold medal in the 100 m breaststroke again in a European record time of 1: 03.52 minutes. In addition, she took second place over 100 meter medley.

At the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, ​​she set a new world record over 100 meters in the semi-finals with 1: 04.35 minutes and later became world champion. In the semi-finals over 50 meters she improved with 29.48 s the world record set up just a few hours earlier by Julija Jefimowa with 29.78 s in a preliminary run. In the final, she won the silver medal just behind Efimova. In October 2013, at the Swimming World Cup in Moscow , she improved the short course world record set by Rebecca Soni in 2009 over 100 meters chest by 34 hundredths of a second to 1: 02.36 minutes.

At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, she won the silver medal behind Yefimova in the 100 meter chest in 1: 06.36 minutes. At the 2018 Short Course World Championships , she was runner-up in the 50-meter breaststroke.

In May 2019, Fina announced that Meilutytė had not been found for doping controls three times within a year . She ended her career on May 22, 2019 for personal reasons.

Until 2018 her coach was Paulius Andrijauskas, appointed by the Lithuanian Swimming Association (LPF). Since 2018 she worked with David Marsh ( University of California, San Diego ) in the USA.

Records

World records long track
50 m chest 00: 29.48 min 3rd August 2013 Barcelona
100 m chest 01: 04.35 min July 29, 2013 Barcelona
World records short course
100 m chest 01: 02.36 min October 12, 2013 Moscow
European records short course
50 m chest 00: 29.44 min December 13, 2012 Istanbul
More national records
50 m freestyle 00: 25.67 min July 28, 2011 Trabzon
100 m freestyle 00: 55.57 min March 7, 2012 London
200 m freestyle 02: 02.68 min May 7, 2012 Plymouth
(As of October 12, 2013)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Rūta Meilutytė  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Bliūdžius: "Rūta Meilutytė: ketverius metus lankiusi krepšinį, skendusi per pirmąją plaukimo treniruotę ir svajojanti tapti medike" . On July 30, 2012 on 15min.lt ( 15 min ), accessed on August 1, 2012 (Lithuanian)
  2. ↑ Andreas Morbach: "'It was a shock - a good shock'" . On July 31, 2012 at spiegel.de ( Spiegel Online ), accessed on August 1, 2012
  3. ↑ Olimpinė čempionė R. Meilutytė 9 metus treniravosi apleistame baseine  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ("Lietuvos ryto" televizija, August 1, 2012 8:29 am)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www1.lrytas.lt  
  4. ↑ Meilutyte wins second gold with a European record. Focus online, December 15, 2012, accessed December 16, 2012.
  5. ↑ Meilutyte pulverizes Efimowa's world record over 50 m chest. sportal.de, August 3, 2013, accessed on August 4, 2013.
  6. ↑ Meilutyte breaks world record over 100 m spox.com, October 12, 2013, accessed on October 14, 2013.
  7. ↑ Swimming Olympic champion Meilutyte threatens long suspension. Spiegel Online, May 7, 2019.
  8. ↑ Meilutyte resigned at the age of 22. sport.orf.at, May 22, 2019, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Rūta Meilutytė atsisveikino su treneriu: plaukikė traukia į JAV . In: sportas.lrytas.lt , January 12, 2018.
  10. ↑ Gymnast Larisa Iordache takes second place in Piotr Nurowski Award event (November 12, 2012)
  11. ↑ RECIPIENTS OF THE EOC PIOTR NUROWSKI PRIZE (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Meilutytė, Rūta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaunas