FUKUOKA, Japan, July 30 (Reuters) - Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania set her second world record in as many days in the women's 50 metres breaststroke, powering to the gold medal in a time of 29.16 seconds at the World Aquatics Championships on Sunday.
Meilutyte smashed the record of 29.30 seconds that she had jointly held with Benedetta Pilato of Italy after setting that mark in her semi-final on Saturday.
She was 0.78 seconds ahead of silver medallist Lilly King of the United States.
Ahmed Hafnaoui ensured a second gold of the meeting for Tunisia after edging past Bobby Finke of the United States in a fiercely contested men's 1,500m freestyle race.
He finished in 14 minutes 31.54 seconds to miss out on Sun Yang's world record of 14:31.02.
Persons:
Ruta, Meilutyte, Benedetta Pilato, Lilly King, Pilato, Ahmed Hafnaoui, Bobby Finke, Finke, Australia's Sam Short, Hunter Armstrong, Justin Ress, China's Xu Jiayu, Shrivathsa Sridhar, Clare Fallon
Organizations:
Marine Messe Fukuoka, Thomson
Locations:
FUKUOKA, Japan, Lithuania, Italy, United States, Tunisia, U.S, Bengaluru