{"id":612018,"date":"2025-05-16T18:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=612018"},"modified":"2025-05-16T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T01:47:55","slug":"ieva-maluka-drops-five-seconds-for-latvian-200-fly-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ieva-maluka-drops-five-seconds-for-latvian-200-fly-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ieva Maluka Drops Five Seconds For Latvian 200 Fly Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ieva Maluka Drops Five Seconds For Latvian 200 Fly Record<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ieva Maluka<\/strong> dropped more than five seconds on the 200 butterfly to set the Latvian record at the Bulldog Grand Slam at the University of Georgia on Friday.<\/p>\n

Maluka entered with a best time of 2:20.20 from the Baltic States Championships in 2020. That is regarded by World Aquatics<\/a> as the national record, though the Latvia Swimming Federation recognizes<\/a> the 1981 time of 2:18.48 set by Vika Jurisone<\/strong> in a meet in Vilnius, Lithuania. That would be roughly a decade before the fall of the Soviet Union, at which point the Baltic states began competing individually.<\/p>\n

Either way, Maluka was much faster on Friday at the Gabrielsen Natatorium. The Arizona State transfer went 2:16.81 in the morning, then nearly two seconds quicker at night to finish second in 2:14.90. It\u2019s not fast by global standards, still a second shy of even the B cut for the 2025 World Championships. But it\u2019s another Worlds option for the top-ranked Latvian swimmer, who has represented her country at each of the last two Olympics.<\/p>\n