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Meilutyte grabs another gold medal in Nanjing

LONDON Olympic champion Ruta Meilutyte finished more than two seconds ahead of her nearest rival in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke final yesterday to claim her second gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games.

Meilutyte will now leave Nanjing and travel to Berlin for the European Championships, where she will compete in the 50 breaststroke.

The Lithuanian, who won in a time of 1:05.39, was not the only Olympic champion at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center yesterday.

South African Chad le Clos, who won gold in the 200 butterfly in London, watched the action in his role as YOG ambassador and had some words of advice for the young swimmers. “I was told as a kid that I wasn’t a good butterfly swimmer, and that I was never going to make it as a pro,” he was quoted as saying by the Games official website. “I never listened to those people.”

Le Clos won a gold, three silver and a bronze medal at the inaugural YOG in Singapore in 2010. “If it wasn’t for competing in the 2010 Singapore YOG, I wouldn’t have achieved my success at the Commonwealth Games in 2010, the world championship in 2011 and at London 2012 ­— no doubt about it,” he added.

At the Xuanwu Lake Rowing-Canoeing venue, Krystsina Staraselets of Belarus was delighted to take the gold medal in the women’s junior singles sculls but dismissed comparisons with compatriot and double Olympic champion Ekaterina Karsten.

“She has been a hero of mine all my life,” she said. “She was winning championships before I was born but I don’t want to compare myself to her so early in my career.”

There were no surprises in table tennis, where Fan Zhendong and Liu Gaoyang took the men’s and women’s singles titles for China.

The Australian women’s rugby sevens team finished the Games unbeaten after thumping Canada 38-10 in yesterday’s final, while France avenged a group loss to Argentina to win the men’s final 45-22.

Rugby sevens makes its debut at the regular Olympics at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.




 

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