Rūta Meilutytė is a Lithuanian competitive swimmer who specialises in breaststroke. At fifteen she won the women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, becoming the youngest Lithuanian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. Based in Britain at Plymouth College and Plymouth Leander Swimming Club under coach Jon Rudd, she had already broken eleven Lithuanian records by that age. In 2013 she set world records in the 50 and 100 metre breaststroke at the World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, and at seventeen she became the first swimmer to win every available junior and senior international championship at least once. She served a 24-month suspension for anti-doping rule violations from July 2019 to July 2021 and returned to national competition in December 2021.
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At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Meilutytė won the gold medal in the women's 100 metre breaststroke
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