At the current Swimming World Championships being held in South Korea, Luxembourg's Julie Meynen finished in 12th place in the Women's 50m freestyle event, when swimming in the 2nd semi-final.
The 21 year-old swimmer broke the 25-second barrier for the first time (her previous best time was 25.07 secs) and swam the distance in 24:78 secs. Exactly a year before the start of the Olympic Games, she came to within one hundredth of a second of the A-standard qualifying time.
After Laurent Carnol (15th in Shanghai in 2011; 9th in Barcelona in 2013) and Raphael Stacchiotti (16th in 200m in Gwangju), Julie Meynen is the first Luxembourgish woman to reach a World Cup semi-final.