Yuilya Efimova Shakes Off Doping Suspension for 100 Breast World Title at 2015 FINA World Championships

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After her doping suspension concluded earlier this year, Russia’s Yuliya Efimova has been on fire.  She kept up with that momentum with a world title in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke at the 2015 FINA World Championships.

Efimova, who concluded her doping suspension with a sizzler at the Mission Viejo Invitational in March, showed up at the starting blocks to a hero’s ovation in Kazan.  She then backed up that support with a world-title winning time of 1:05.66.

That’s just off her semifinal swim of 1:05.60, but was good enough to give her a fourth world title and a ninth career world medal.

Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte, the world-record holder with a 1:04.35 to her credit from 2013, wound up with a silver in 1:06.36.  That’s her third world medal with a gold and two silvers to her credit now.

Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson won her first world medal ever with a bronze-winning 1:06.42 to round out the podium.

Japan’s Kanako Watanabe (1:06.43), China’s Shi Jinglin (1:06.55), Iceland’s Hilda Luthersdottir (1:07.10), Sweden’s Jennie Johansson (1:07.17) and Italy’s Arianna Castiglioni (1:07.60) finished the finale in fourth through eighth.

SCHEDULED EVENTS

  • Men’s 200 free finals
  • Women’s 100 back finals
  • Men’s 50 breast semis
  • Women’s 1500 free finals
  • Men’s 100 back finals
  • Women’s 200 free semis
  • Men’s 200 fly semis
  • Women’s 100 breast finals

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Anna Urbanová
8 years ago

Shakes off?! I dont think so…

Gherghel Cristian
8 years ago

Bleah… She should have been banned for life.

Sarah Swims
8 years ago

The look on the other swimmers faces in that final when she won says it all..

Morten Aurvig Lystlund Brøndum

a disgrace she’s competing 🙁

Andrew Webber
8 years ago

Yep, irrelevant, sorry.

Sean Banerjee
8 years ago

Graham Boyer, remember the head tilt?!

Ridiculous
Ridiculous
8 years ago

When a doper wins a world title, the entire sport loses.

James Tebbett
8 years ago

Congratulations Ruta!

Mahmoud Salman
8 years ago
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