{"id":514972,"date":"2022-10-23T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T18:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=514972"},"modified":"2022-10-23T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T21:06:51","slug":"ruta-meilutyte-misses-50-breaststroke-world-record-by-0-04-in-european-mark-of-28-60-at-fina-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ruta-meilutyte-misses-50-breaststroke-world-record-by-0-04-in-european-mark-of-28-60-at-fina-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruta Meilutyte Misses 50 Breaststroke World Record By 0.04 In European Mark Of 28.60 At FINA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruta Meilutyte Misses 50 Breaststroke World Record By 0.04 In European Mark Of 28.60 At FINA World Cup<\/h4>\n
Ruta Meilutyte<\/strong> was just 0.04secs outside the 50m breaststroke world record as she set a European mark of 28.60 on the final day of the first leg of the FINA World Cup<\/strong> in Berlin.<\/p>\n
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Link to results<\/a><\/li>\n
Day one report<\/a><\/li>\n
Day two report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Lithuanian rattled Alia Atkinson<\/strong>‘s 28.56 world record set at the Budapest stop of the 2018 World Cup with the second-fastest time in history.<\/p>\n
It clipped 0.21 from the previous European record of 28.81 held jointly by Meilutyte and Italian Benedetta Pilato<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Sophie Hansson<\/strong> (29.84) and Anastasia Gorbenko<\/strong> (30.03) were next home.<\/p>\n
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\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf9 Ruta Meilutyte 0.04 far from setting a new World Record \ud83d\udd25 in the 50m Breast!
\u23f1\ufe0f28.60 #swimming<\/a> #SWC2022<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/V5mCXLrHRk<\/a><\/p>\n
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) October 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n