Rugilė Mileišytė

Rugilė Mileišytė
Personal information
Full name Rugilė Mileišytė
National team  Lithuania
Born (1988-05-11) 11 May 1988
Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
College team Washington State University
(U.S.)

Rugilė Mileišytė (born May 11, 1988) is a Lithuanian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a multiple-time Lithuanian champion and a five-time national record holder for both the freestyle and medley relay events. Mileišytė is a member of the swimming team for the Washington State Cougars, and a graduate of social sciences at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.

Mileisyte qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 26.32 in a time trial from the Seven Hill Trophy in Rome, Italy.[2][3] She won the sixth heat by 0.28 of a second ahead of Papua New Guinea's Anna-Liza Mopio-Jane in a lifetime best of 26.19 seconds. Mileisyte failed to advance into the semifinals, as she matched her thirty-ninth-place tie with two-time Olympian and South Carolina Gamecocks swimmer Sharntelle McLean of Trinidad and Tobago in the preliminary heats.[4]

At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, Mileisyte helped out her team to set two Lithuanian records in the preliminary heats of both freestyle and medley relays, clocking at 3:54.97 and 4:12.30, respectively.[5][6]

Mileisyte is married to former swimmer and three-time Olympian Saulius Binevičius. She is currently working as an intern, along with Binevicius, for the swimming team at Plymouth College in England.[7]

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