Indianapolis, IN
Ruta Meilutyte Tears Down US Open Record with 28.70 SCM 50 Breast in Indianapolis
2022 FINA WORLD CUP – INDIANAPOLIS
WOMEN’S 50 BREASTSTROKE – FINALS
- World File: 28.56, Alia Atkinson (JAM), 2018
- World Jr File: 28.81, Benedetta Pilato (ITA), 2020
- World Cup File: 28.56, Alia Atkinson (JAM), 2018
US Open File: 28.90, Lilly King (USA), 2019
PODIUM:
- Ruta Meilutyte (LTU) – 28.70 US Open
- Lilly King (USA) – 29.16
- Andrea Podmanikova (CZE) – 29.89
The comeback of Ruta Meilutyte continues. After getting back from retirement final season, the breaststroke famous person wasted no time getting again into her prime type. She traveled to the LC World Championships this previous summer season, the place she gained gold within the 50 breast and bronze within the 100 breast. She did the identical on the LC European Championships on the finish of the summer season, profitable gold within the 50 breast and bronze within the 100.
Tonight, Meilutyte’s journey again to the highest of the dash breaststroke mountain continued, as she gained the 50 breast over American star Lilly King. Meilutyte threw down a 28.70. The swim is available in simply .10 seconds off her private finest, which she set on the first cease of this World Cup in Berlin simply two weeks in the past. Her 28.60 from Berlin notably stands because the European File within the occasion.
Whereas she was only a hair off her private finest. Meilutyte did down the US Open File, which was held by Lilly King from the 2019 ISL Finals in Las Vegas. King’s file stood at 28.90, a mark which Meilutyte had no bother clearing tonight.
Meilutyte absolutely has her eyes on the World File, which sits at 28.56, simply 0.04 seconds quicker than her 28.60 from Berlin. Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson holds that file with a efficiency from the 2018 World Cup.