Lithuania's retired swimming start Ruta Meilutyte has been disqualified by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) for two years for the violation of the doping rules.
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Rūta Meilutytė (born 19 March 1997) is a Lithuanian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and world record-holder. She is the current world record holder in the 100 metre breaststroke (short course).
Lithuanian swimmers Rūta Meilutytė and Danas Rapšys have both won silver medals at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships held in China.
Former Lithuanian basketball player Arvydas Sabonis, who previously led the country's basketball federation, has been named the most influential sports figure in Lithuania, according to a survey by Spinter Tyrimai for the delfi.lt news website, published on Friday.
Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuania's basketball legend who now heads the country's Basketball Federation, Virgilijus Alekna, a former discus thrower and now a lawmaker, and Rūta Meilutyte, an Olympic gold-winning swimmer, are ranked as Lithuania's most influential sports figures, Delfi.lt reported on Wednes...
Rūta Meilutytė, gold medalist of the 2012 Summer Olympics, has announced plans of continuing her sporting career in Kaunas, Lithuania, coached by Paulius Andrijauskas.
Rūta Meilutytė finished seventh in the Olympic 100m breaststroke swimming finals, disappointing her own and her fans' hopes for a second Olympic gold. Doctors who worked with the Lithuania swimmer say that the season has been very difficult for Meilutytė who suffered an injury last year. To read thi...
Although the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has refrained from banning the entire Russian delegation from the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, the ticket to Brazil will not be extended to swimmer Yuliya Efimova and other Russian athletes who have been entangled in doping scandals. To read this a...
Rūta Meilutytė took the gold medal in a 100-meter breaststroke swimming event on Sunday at the international swimming competition Mare Nostrum 2016 in Barcelona.
Lithuanian swimming star 19-year-old Rūta Meilutytė has won gold in the women's 100 metre breaststroke final at the European Championships.
Rūta Meilutytė laid down a marker with her first swim of the London 2016 European Championships to lead all qualifiers from the 100m breaststroke heats.
The Lithuanian Gay League invited swimmer Rūta Meilutytė to march in the Baltic Pride event in Vilnius this year, but received an unexpected answer from her father Saulius Meilutis.
Lithuanian swimming prodigy Rūta Meilutytė blew away the field in women's 50m breaststroke final at Swim Open Stockholm on Thursday night.
Lithuanian swimmer Rūta Meilutytė is to return to competition next week swimming in a 2016 Euro Meet in Luxembourg on January 29-31. Meilutytė will compete for the first time since she got an elbow injury in 2015.
Lithuania's second-largest city Kaunas will ask the country's swimming champion Rūta Meilutytė to become the face and ambassador of the International Children's Games the city will host in 2017, Kaunas Mayor Andrius Kupčinskas told a press conference on Monday.
Lithuanian swimmer Rūta Meilutytė ended the season with the best results. A year of work, the intensive season and three competitions within two weeks brought to Meilutytė something that no athlete had ever achieved. She added a gold medal from the European championship to her collection of trophies...
As the Chief Sports Writer for Tėviškės Aidai (Australian/Lithuanian newspaper) from September 2009 until November 2013 I was able to dissect Lithuania’s sporting triumphs.
