100 m breaststroke, women, 25 m pool

What to remember

Moscow, October 12, 2013: at a short course World Cup meet, Lithuania's Rūta Meilutytė swam the 100 m breaststroke in 1 min 02.36 s. She had been Olympic champion over the distance since the 2012 Games.

Meilutytė trained in Britain, at Plymouth College and the Plymouth Leander Swimming Club, under a coaching team led by Jon Rudd. Early in her career she had already broken eleven Lithuanian women's records. A breaststroke specialist, she also formerly held the long course 100 m breaststroke world record, and she also held a world record over 50 m breaststroke.

In short course, three names go with the 100 m breaststroke record: Meilutytė, Jamaica's Alia Atkinson and, for men, Belarus' Ilya Shymanovich. Men and women have raced it at the Olympics since 1968, and at the World Aquatics Championships from their launch in 1973. Records are ratified by World Aquatics, formerly FINA, separately for 50-metre and 25-metre pools.