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After her doping suspension concluded earlier this year, Russia’s Yuliya Efimova has been on fire. She kept up with that momentum with a world title in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke at the 2015 FINA World Championships.
Efimova, who concluded her doping suspension with a sizzler at the Mission Viejo Invitational in March, showed up at the starting blocks to a hero’s ovation in Kazan. She then backed up that support with a world-title winning time of 1:05.66.
That’s just off her semifinal swim of 1:05.60, but was good enough to give her a fourth world title and a ninth career world medal.
Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte, the world-record holder with a 1:04.35 to her credit from 2013, wound up with a silver in 1:06.36. That’s her third world medal with a gold and two silvers to her credit now.
Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson won her first world medal ever with a bronze-winning 1:06.42 to round out the podium.
Japan’s Kanako Watanabe (1:06.43), China’s Shi Jinglin (1:06.55), Iceland’s Hilda Luthersdottir (1:07.10), Sweden’s Jennie Johansson (1:07.17) and Italy’s Arianna Castiglioni (1:07.60) finished the finale in fourth through eighth.
SCHEDULED EVENTS
- Men’s 200 free finals
- Women’s 100 back finals
- Men’s 50 breast semis
- Women’s 1500 free finals
- Men’s 100 back finals
- Women’s 200 free semis
- Men’s 200 fly semis
- Women’s 100 breast finals
Shakes off?! I dont think so…
Bleah… She should have been banned for life.
The look on the other swimmers faces in that final when she won says it all..
a disgrace she’s competing 🙁
Yep, irrelevant, sorry.
Graham Boyer, remember the head tilt?!
When a doper wins a world title, the entire sport loses.
Congratulations Ruta!