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}} Rūta Meilutytė ((:ruːˈt̪ɐ mʲɛɪ̯ɫʊˈtʲi̇̂ːtʲeː); born 19 March 1997) is a Lithuanian competitive swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and world record-holder. She is the current world record holder in the 50- and 100-meter breaststroke (long course). At the age of 17 she is also the first and the only swimmer in history to win all the possible swimming titles in all age groups. At the age of 15, she had already broken eleven Lithuanian women's swimming records.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Plaukikė Meilutytė toliau gerina Lietuvos rekordus )〕 At the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival (Trabzon – Turkey) Meilutytė won the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke, a silver in the 50m freestyle and a bronze in the 100m freestyle. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Meilutytė won the gold medal in the women's 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 1:05.47.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lithuanian 15-year-old Ruta Meilutyte wins shock gold )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate= )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate= )〕 At age 15, she is also the youngest Lithuanian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. In the semi-final she broke the European record in the 100 m breastroke with a time of 1:05:21. In 2013 Meilutytė broke her own European record by 0.01-second. Rūta competed at 2013 World Aquatics Championships, in Barcelona, and achieved world records in the 100, and 50-meter breaststroke. Meilutytė is a swimming scholar at Plymouth College and is coached by Jon Rudd at the Plymouth Leander Swimming programme.〔http://www.london2012.com/athlete/meilutyte-ruta-1065297/〕 ==Personal life== Meilutytė was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on 19 March 1997, the daughter of Saulius Meilutis and Ingrida Meilutienė. During her early childhood Rūta lost her mother. In March 2001, when Rūta Meilutytė was 4, her mother was killed in a car accident. She only vaguely remembers her, but relatives say that many of the swimmer's physical traits are inherited from her mother. Her father is a nurse for handicapped people, while before the accident her mother was a housewife. Meilutytė has two older brothers, Margiris (age 20), who is a law student, and Mindaugas (age 24).〔 Meilutytė began swimming at the age of seven. Although not particularly tall, she has had size 43 feet (11 US) since she was just 13 years old, and she wears now a size 44 shoe (12 US).〔〔http://i-swimmer.ru/foto/lithuania/meilutyte/meilutyte.htm In Russian〕〔(Rūta Meilutytė, who grew up without mother is accompanied on her road to victories by her father )〕〔http://deportes.elpais.com/deportes/2013/07/30/actualidad/1375211827_715106.html In Spanish〕 At age 13 she moved from Kaunas to Plymouth, where her father and brothers lived. Since then she has been coached by Jon Rudd at the Plymouth Leander Club.〔http://www.yourswimlog.com/how-badass-is-ruta-meilutytes-start/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rūta Meilutytė」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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