2024 EUROPEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, July 2nd – Sunday, July 7th
- Prelims at 9:30am local/Finals at 6pm local
- Lazdynai Pool, Vilnius, Lithuania
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
- Entries
- Day 1 Prelims Recap/Day 1 Finals Recap
- Day 2 Prelims Recap/Day 2 Finals Recap
- Day 3 Finals Recap
- Day 4 Prelims Recap/Day 4 Finals Recap
- Day 5 Prelims Recap/Day 5 Finals Recap
- Day 6 Finals Recap
- Live Results
- Livestream ($)
British 15-year-old Theodora Taylor tallied a record-breaking swim in the girls 100 breaststroke on her way to the bronze medal at the European Junior Championships on Sunday.
Taylor stopped the clock at 1:08.59, sneaking under the British age record for 15-year-old girls (1:08.60) that Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell established way back in 2009. She dropped more than half second off her previous-best 1:09.19 from March.
Taylor is within a couple seconds of the overall Welsh record of 1:06.88 that Chloe Tutton set at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
It’s the second medal of the week for Taylor, who clocked a personal-best 2:28.71 for silver in the 200 breast on Friday. She’s still a couple seconds off the British age record of 2:26.55 that Lara Bate posted in 2015
GIRLS 100 BREASTSTROKE – FINAL
- World junior record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
- European junior record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
- Meet record: 1:05.48 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
- 2022 European junior champion: Eneli Jevimova (EST) – 1:06.81
PODIUM:
- GOLD: Eneli Jefimova (EST) – 1:06.12
- SILVER: Smilte Plytnykaite (LTU) – 1:07.91
- BRONZE: Theodora Taylor (GBR) – 1:08.59
European champion Eneli Jefimova captured her third consecutive 100 breast crown in 1:06.12, just a blink off her Estonian record (1:06.08) from Saturday’s semifinals. The 17-year-old was a few tenths quicker tonight than she was en route to the European title last month (1:06.41).
Jefimova reached the wall almost two seconds ahead of Lithuania’s Smilte Plytnykaite (1:07.91), who had never been under 1:10 before clocking 1:09.79/1:08.31 in Saturday’s prelims and semifinals, respectively.
