2024-07-29 08:21:07
The Lithuanian swam in the second course in the semi-finals, and American Olympic champion Lilly King and South African swimmer Tatjana Smith were next to her.
Leading at the start, our team lost speed at the finish and was only seventh.
Our goldfish showed a result of 1 min in the qualification. 06.34 sec. and advanced to the semi-finals with the 10th overall result.
This is already the third Olympic Games in R. Meilutytė’s career – in 2016. In Rio de Janeiro, the Kaunian was seventh in this distance.
However, later R. Meilutytė took a five-year break in her career, after which she successfully returned to international competitions and won titles in them.
Last year, she became the world champion in the 100m breaststroke, and this year she won gold in the non-Olympic 50m.
Kotryna Teterevkova, who three years ago finished fourteenth in the 100 m breaststroke, started in the Olympic Games for the second time in her career.
In the morning, she took 15th place in the fifth qualifying swim overall, showing a result of 1 min. 06.76 sec.
In the first semi-final, the representative of Lithuania started on the first track and took the last eighth place, showing a much worse result than in the morning – 1 min.07.48 sec. Our team did not make it to the finals, taking 16th place in the final standings and ending the performance.
2024-07-29 08:21:07