The 24-year-old Spanish swimmer cruised to victory in the women’s 800 freestyle on Thursday to claim her third gold medal at the FINA World Short Course Championships.
It only took two nights, and Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia already matched her gold-medal output from 2010 as she topped the 800 free tonight with a meet record.
Belmonte Garcia chased down the distance freestyle gold with an 8:03.41. That equals her 2010 output, which was the most gold medals won by a Spaniard in short course worlds history.
Belmonte Garcia’s time may not have been close to her world record 7:59.34 from the Berlin stop of the FINA World Cup last year, but it was more than enough to crack Rebecca Adlington’s 2008 meet record of 8:08.25.
Make that four oros for Mireia Belmonte Garcia… The 24-year-old Spanish winner earned her fourth gold medal Friday by winning the women's 400 freestyle at the FINA World Short Course Championships. She touched in at 3:55.76 to win the middle-distance freestyle event, smashing Katie Hoff’s meet record of 3:57.07 from…
There seems to be no stopping Mireia Belmonte Garcia… The 24-year-old Spanish swimmer was unbeatable on the opening night of the world short-course championships, winning the women's 200-meter butterfly and 400-meter individual medley in record times on Wednesday. In both races, newly crowned female world swimmer of the year Katinka…
Mireia Belmonte García has put Spain on the scoreboard at the London Games... The 21-year-old Spanish swimmer earned silver in the final of the 200 meter butterfly in women’s swimming on Wednesday with a time of 2:05.25 to give Spain its first medal of the 2012 Olympic Games in any event.…
