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Rūta Meilutytė (born March 19, 1997) in Kaunas, is a Lithuanian swimmer. She holds multiple national records.

In the 2012 London Olympic Games, she won the gold medal in breaststroke 100 meter distance. Rūta Meilutytė completed the distance in 1:05.21 and improved the European record held by Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova since 2009 by 0.59 of a second. Rūta is the first sportswoman to earn an Olympic medal in swimming since Lithuania’s independence was regained and was the youngest Lithuanian representative in those Olympics (being only 15 during the London Olympics). On 21 May 2019, Rūta announced her retirement from professional sports.

Rūta Meilutytė ends her professional sports career

May 22, 2019 Corporate Client article 0

Rūta Meilutytė, Olympic champion, has decided to end her professional sports career, the Lithuanian Swimming Federation reports. The 22 year old from Kaunas has gifted a number of spectacular moments to Lithuania. In 2012, she […]

Lithuanian swimmers take two silver medals in FINA World Swimming Championships

December 12, 2018 EN.DELFI 0

Lithuanian swimmers Rūta Meilutytė and Danas Rapšys have both won silver medals at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships held in China. […]

Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Arvydas Sabonis, Rūta Meilutytė, Virgilijus Alekna

Sabonis named most influential sports figure in Lithuania – survey

August 24, 2018 Lithuania Tribune 0

Former Lithuanian basketball player Arvydas Sabonis, who previously led the country’s basketball federation, has been named the most influential sports figure in Lithuania, according to a survey by Spinter Tyrimai for the delfi.lt news website, published on Friday. […]

Most Influential in Lithuania 2017: sports personalities

Sabonis, Alekna, Meilutytė top list of Lithuania’s most influential sports figures

August 30, 2017 BNS EN 0

Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuania’s basketball legend who now heads the country’s Basketball Federation, Virgilijus Alekna, a former discus thrower and now a lawmaker, and Rūta Meilutyte, an Olympic gold-winning swimmer, are ranked as Lithuania’s most influential sports figures, Delfi.lt reported on Wednesday. […]

Paulius Andrijauskas, Rūta Meilutytė and the Major of Kaunas Visvaldas Matijošaitis

Swimmer Meilutytė to continue career in Kaunas

February 15, 2017 BNS EN 0

Rūta Meilutytė, gold medalist of the 2012 Summer Olympics, has announced plans of continuing her sporting career in Kaunas, Lithuania, coached by Paulius Andrijauskas. […]

Meilutytė ‘achieved victory against all odds’

August 10, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Rūta Meilutytė finished seventh in the Olympic 100m breaststroke swimming finals, disappointing her own and her fans’ hopes for a second Olympic gold. Doctors who worked with the Lithuania swimmer say that the season has been very difficult for Meilutytė who suffered an injury last year.

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Meilutytė‘s number-one opponent Efimova out of Olympics

July 25, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Although the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has refrained from banning the entire Russian delegation from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, the ticket to Brazil will not be extended to swimmer Yuliya Efimova and other Russian athletes who have been entangled in doping scandals.

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Meilutytė’s double triumph in Barcelona

June 13, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Rūta Meilutytė took the gold medal in a 100-meter breaststroke swimming event on Sunday at the international swimming competition Mare Nostrum 2016 in Barcelona. […]

Meilutytė takes gold at European Championships

May 19, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian swimming star 19-year-old Rūta Meilutytė has won gold in the women’s 100 metre breaststroke final at the European Championships. […]

Lithuania’s golden girl Meilutytė lays down marker with first swim at European Championships

May 17, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Rūta Meilutytė laid down a marker with her first swim of the London 2016 European Championships to lead all qualifiers from the 100m breaststroke heats. […]

Lithuania’s star swimmer’s father stuns Gay League with letter

April 6, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

The Lithuanian Gay League invited swimmer Rūta Meilutytė to march in the Baltic Pride event in Vilnius this year, but received an unexpected answer from her father Saulius Meilutis. […]

Lithuania’s star swimmer Meilutytė wins gold in Stockholm

April 1, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian swimming prodigy Rūta Meilutytė blew away the field in women’s 50m breaststroke final at Swim Open Stockholm on Thursday night. […]

Rūta Meilutytė returns to competition after injury

January 21, 2016 LT Daily 0

Lithuanian swimmer Rūta Meilutytė is to return to competition next week swimming in a 2016 Euro Meet in Luxembourg on January 29-31. Meilutytė will compete for the first time since she got an elbow injury in 2015. […]

Kaunas to ask Lithuanian swimming champion Meilutytė to be the face of international games

December 15, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas will ask the country’s swimming champion Rūta Meilutytė to become the face and ambassador of the International Children’s Games the city will host in 2017, Kaunas Mayor Andrius Kupčinskas told a press conference on Monday. […]

Gold-winning Lithuanian swimmer Meilutytė says the season exceeded her expectations

August 26, 2014 DELFI EN 0

Lithuanian swimmer Rūta Meilutytė ended the season with the best results. A year of work, the intensive season and three competitions within two weeks brought to Meilutytė something that no athlete had ever achieved. She added a gold medal from the European championship to her collection of trophies and now she has a full set of gold medals from all highest-grade competitions. […]

On this day in sport: 30 July

July 31, 2014 Alex Tigani 0

As the Chief Sports Writer for Tėviškės Aidai (Australian/Lithuanian newspaper) from September 2009 until November 2013 I was able to dissect Lithuania’s sporting triumphs. […]