Reuters: Sports News: Meilutyte rockets to breaststroke championship record

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Meilutyte rockets to breaststroke championship record Jul 29th 2013, 09:14 BARCELONA | Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:14am EDT BARCELONA (Reuters) - Olympic champion Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania set a European and world championship record in the heats for the 100 meters breaststroke in Barcelona on Monday. Swimming in the final heat alongside Jessica Hardy of the United States, Meilutyte was just 0.07 outside Hardy's 2009 world record of one minute 4.45 seconds with a time of 1:04.52. The 16-year-old, who trains in England, beat American Rebecca Soni's world championship record of 1:04.84 set at the 2009 edition in Rome.

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