Theodora Taylor is the fastest 15-year-old Briton of all time in the 100-meter breaststroke at the Euro Juniors

JUNIOR EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024

British 15-year-old Theodora Taylor set a new record in the girls’ 100-meter breaststroke on Sunday and won the bronze medal at the European Junior Championships.

Taylor stopped the clock at 1:08.59, beating the British age record for 15-year-old girls (1:08.60), which Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell already established in 2009. She improved her previous best time of 1:09.19 from March by more than half a second.

Taylor is just a few seconds behind the Welsh overall record of 1:06.88, which Chloe Tutton at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

It is the second medal of the week for Taylor, who took silver in the 200m breaststroke on Friday with a personal best of 2:28.71. She is still a few seconds off the British age record of 2:26.55, which Lara Bate published in 2015

GIRLS 100 BREASTSTROKE – FINAL

• Junior World Record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
• European junior record: 1:04.35 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
• Competition record: 1:05.48 – Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
• Junior European Champion 2022: Eneli Jevimova (EST) – 1:06.81

PODIUM:

European Champion Eneli Yefimova claimed her third consecutive 100m breaststroke title in 1:06.12, just a touch off her Estonian record (1:06.08) from Saturday’s semifinal. The 17-year-old was a few tenths faster tonight than she was on her way to the European title last month (1:06.41).

Jefimova reached the finish line almost two seconds ahead of the Lithuanian Smilte Plytnykaite (1:07.91), who had never been under 1:10 before he achieved times of 1:09.79/1:08.31 in the heats and semifinals on Saturday.