Rūta Meilutytė
Rūta Meilutytė (Lithuanian pronunciation: [ruːˈt̪ɐ mʲɛɪ̯ɫʊˈtʲi̇̂ːtʲeː]; born 19 March 1997) is a Lithuanian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and world record-holder. She is the current world record holder in the 50 metre breaststroke, 100 metre breaststroke (long course) and 100 metre breaststroke (short course).
At the age of 15, she had already broken eleven Lithuanian women's swimming records. At the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Trabzon, Meilutytė won the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke, a silver in the 50m freestyle and a bronze in the 100m freestyle. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Meilutytė won the gold medal in the women's 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 1:05.47. At age 15, she was also the youngest Lithuanian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. In the semi-final she broke the European record in the 100m breastroke with a time of 1:05:21. In 2013 Meilutytė broke her own European record by 0.01 of a second. Rūta competed at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona and achieved world records in the 50 and 100 metre breaststroke. Meilutytė is a swimming scholar at Plymouth College. At the age of 17 she became the first and the only swimmer in history to win all available junior and senior international swimming championships at least once.
Meilutytė was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, on 19 March 1997, the daughter of Saulius Meilutis and Ingrida Meilutienė. In March 2001, when Meilutytė was 4, her mother was killed in a car accident. She only vaguely remembers her, but relatives say that many of the swimmer's physical traits are inherited from her mother. Her father is a nurse for handicapped people, while before the accident her mother was a housewife. Meilutytė has two older brothers, Margiris (age 20), who is a law student, and Mindaugas (age 24). Meilutytė began swimming at the age of seven. Although not particularly tall, she has had size 43 feet (11 US) since she was just 13 years old, and she wears now a size 44 shoe (12 US). At age 13 she moved from Kaunas to Plymouth, where her father and brothers lived.
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