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, Olympic champion, has decided to end her professional sports career, the Lithuanian Swimming Federation reports. The 22 year…
Lithuanian swimmers Rūta Meilutytė and Danas Rapšys have both won silver medals at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships held…
Former Lithuanian basketball player Arvydas Sabonis, who previously led the country's basketball federation, has been named the most influential sports…
Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuania's basketball legend who now heads the country's Basketball Federation, Virgilijus Alekna, a former discus thrower and now…
Rūta Meilutytė, gold medalist of the 2012 Summer Olympics, has announced plans of continuing her sporting career in Kaunas, Lithuania,…
Rūta Meilutytė finished seventh in the Olympic 100m breaststroke swimming finals, disappointing her own and her fans' hopes for a…
Although the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has refrained from banning the entire Russian delegation from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic…
Rūta Meilutytė took the gold medal in a 100-meter breaststroke swimming event on Sunday at the international swimming competition Mare…
Lithuanian swimming star 19-year-old Rūta Meilutytė has won gold in the women's 100 metre breaststroke final at the European Championships.…
Rūta Meilutytė laid down a marker with her first swim of the London 2016 European Championships to lead all qualifiers…
The Lithuanian Gay League invited swimmer Rūta Meilutytė to march in the Baltic Pride event in Vilnius this year, but…
Lithuanian swimming prodigy Rūta Meilutytė blew away the field in women's 50m breaststroke final at Swim Open Stockholm on Thursday…
Lithuanian swimmer Rūta Meilutytė is to return to competition next week swimming in a 2016 Euro Meet in Luxembourg on…
Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas will ask the country's swimming champion Rūta Meilutytė to become the face and ambassador of the…
Lithuanian swimmer Rūta Meilutytė ended the season with the best results. A year of work, the intensive season and three…
As the Chief Sports Writer for Tėviškės Aidai (Australian/Lithuanian newspaper) from September 2009 until November 2013 I was able to…