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Lithuania's Ruta Meilutyte broke the women's 50 metres breaststroke world record on Saturday -- just eight hours after Yuliya Efimova's record in the same event at the world championships.

In Saturday night's semi-finals, the 16-year-old Meilutyte clocked 29.48sec, shaving 0.3 of a second off the record set by Russia's Efimova in the morning's heats.

"There was no extra motivation by Yuliya's record earlier today," insisted Meilutyte, who also broke the 100m breaststroke world record on Monday.

"I didn't swim at 100 percent in the heats this morning and I gave it my all tonight because there are only two swims left."

With both Efimova and Meilutyte having lowered the world record in the heats and semis respectively, the pair will go head-to-head in the final on Sunday, the last day of the championships.

This was the fifth time a world record has fallen -- all by women -- at the world championships and the fourth in breastroke events after Meilutyte in the 100m, Denmark's Rikke Moller Pedersen in the 200m and Efimova's in the 50m earlier on Saturday.

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