Laura Petrutytė (born 10 August 1976) is a

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former competitive

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Career

Petrutytė competed at the

1994 World Aquatics Championships The 1994 FINA World Aquatics Championships were held in Rome, Italy between September 1 and September 11, 1994. Medal table Results Diving ;Men ;Women Open water swimming ;Men ;Women Swimming ;Men ;Women Synchronized swimmin ...

and set a personal best time of 26.55 in the 50 m

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. She set national records in the 50 m freestyle in 1994 (which stood until 2011) and the 1500 m freestyle. At the

1996 Summer Olympic Games The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

Petrutytė finished 16th in the

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with a new national record time of 26.13 and 41st in the

women's 200 metre freestyle A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardle ...

. Petrutytė attended Florida Atlantic University and took part in the

1997 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships The 1997 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the 16th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the Un ...

References

1976 births Living people Lithuanian female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Lithuania Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Florida Atlantic University alumni {{Lithuania-swimming-bio-stub