50 m breaststroke, women

What to remember

One length of an Olympic pool in breaststroke, swum in 29.16 s: that is the time Lithuania's Rūta Meilutytė clocked on July 30, 2023, in Fukuoka, Japan, at the World Championships.

Rūta Meilutytė is a breaststroke specialist. She trained in Britain, at Plymouth College and the associated Plymouth Leander Swimming Club, under a coaching team led by Jon Rudd, and won the Olympic 100 m breaststroke title in 2012. She has also set short course world records in the 50 m and 100 m breaststroke.

The 50 m breaststroke has been on the long course World Championships program only since 2001, and at the short course championships since 1999. This record belongs to the long course category, swum in 50 m pools.