LONDON - Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania broke the women's 100 metres breaststroke European record in the semi-finals at the Olympic Games on Sunday.

Meilutyte, 15, clocked one minute, 05.21 seconds to beat the 1:05.41 set by Russian Yuliya Efimova at the 2009 Worlds in Rome, when she won silver behind American Soni.

ELC W 100 BREAST European record evolution (Time, Name/Nationality, Place, Date):
1:05.21 Ruta Meilutyte LTU London 29.07.12
1:05.41 Yuliya Efimova RUS Rome 28.07.09
1:05.80 Yuliya Efimova RUS Moscow 27.04.09
1:07.00 Mirna Jukic AUT Vienna 24.04.09
1:06.08 Yuliya Efimova RUS Beijing 10.08.08 -- never ratified by LEN because of no doping control
1:07.06 Mirna Jukic AUT Beijing 10.08.08 – never ratified by LEN because of no doping control
1:07.10 Sarah Poewe GER Berlin 19.04.08
   = Anna Khlistunova UKR Melbourne 27.03.07
1:07.27 Emma Igelstroem SWE Landskrona 07.07.02
1:07.79 Agnes Kovacs HUN Sydney 17.09.00
1:07.91 Silke Hörner GDR Strasbourg 21.08.87
1:08.11 Sylvia Gerash GDR Madrid 21.08.86
1:08.29 Sylvia Gerash GDR Moscow 23.08.84
1:08.51 Ute Geweniger GDR Rome 25.08.83