World champion over the distance in 2013, in Spain, Meilutyte, 26, beat South African Tatjana Schoenmaker and American Lydia Jacoby with a time of 1 min 04 sec 62/100.
This is the third world title overall for Meilutyte, and the first for Lithuania in Fukuoka. The Lithuanian had also been crowned Olympic champion, again in the 100m breaststroke, at only 15 years old in 2012 in London.