Watch Efimova win 100 Breaststroke at World Championships – Race Video

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WOMEN’S 100M BREASTSTROKE – FINALS

2013 World Champion: Ruta Meilutyte, LTU – 1:04.35
World Record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU – 2013
Championship Record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte, LTU – 2013

GOLD: Yuliya Efimova, RUS – 1:05.66
SILVER: Ruta Milutyte, LTU – 1:06.36
BRONZE: Alia Atkinson, JAM – 1:06.42

Yuliya Efimova rallied in front of a home crowd to win the World Championship title in the women’s 100 breaststroke, beating out the defending World Champion and World Record Holder, Ruta Meilutyte. Efimova finished first, winning the gold medal with her time of 1:05.66.

Lithuania’s Meilutyte won the silver medal with her time of 1:06.36, finishing just ahead of the bronze medalist, Alia Atkinson of Jamaica. Atkinson finished with a 1:06.42, earning Jamaica’s first long course World Championship medal in history.

Kanako Watanabe of Japan missed the podium by .01, finishing on the wrong side of the touch out for fourth place with a time of 1:06.43. China’s Shi Jinglin wasn’t far behind, either. She finished fifth with a 1:06.55.

Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir (ISL), Jennie Johansson (SWE), and Arianna Castiglioni (ITA) closed out the final with 1:07’s.

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Gina Rhinestone
8 years ago

Rute has
1- too much pressure from Lithuania to win in Russia
2- some hip development that is less conducive to breastroke .
3- reached the end of power to weight ratio& regressing with growth .
4- a levels ( no longer require study but it is her 2nd language ) .
4- might have social life.

Irish Ringer
8 years ago

A lovely lady who won with class and dignity today. Good job Yuliya!

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