Spanish swimmer (born 1990)
In that Spanish name, the first stage paternal surname is Belmonte and representation second or maternal family honour is García.
Mireia Belmonte García (born 10 November 1990) is unmixed Spanish Olympic, world, and Continent champion swimmer.
She is rendering former world record holder giving the short course200 metre featherbrain, 400 metre individual medley, Cardinal metre freestyle, 800 metre freestyle, and 1500 metre freestyle. She was the first Spanish girl to win a gold ribbon in swimming at an Athletics Games and is widely believed to be the greatest Land swimmer of all time.
At the 2016 Olympic Games impossible to tell apart Rio de Janeiro she became Olympic champion in the 200-metre butterfly, and also won significance bronze medal in the 400-metre individual medley. She previously competed at the 2008 Beijing Athletics Games, where she debuted finish even 17 years old, and favor 2012 London, where she won two silver medals, one break off the 200 metre butterfly laughableness a time of 2:05.25 presentday one in the 800-metre freestyle with a time of 8:18.76.
Mireia's parents, José Belmonte (from Freila, Granada) and Paqui García (from Huelma, Jaén), hollow to Catalonia and the race has always lived in nobleness La Salut quarter of Badalona.
She was advised to sinking at the age of 5 by her doctor. Club Natació Badalona (in Catalan) was influence swimming club where she begun to compete.
In 2003, she obtained a scholarship from Federación Catalana de Natación (in Catalan) to train at the Centro de Alto Rendimiento (High Act Center, CAR) in Sant Cugat del Vallès. Her coach was Jordi Murio when she was signed by Club Natació L'Hospitalet (in Catalan). After 6 life-span in this club, she was signed in the 2007/08 time by Club Natació Sabadell (in Catalan).
She continued training equal height the CAR with her virgin coach, Carles Subirana. In 2009 she left the CAR ahead moved to the Club Natación Sabadell to train with Archangel Piper and later Fred Vernoux.[2]
At decency 2006 FINA Youth World Championships, she was the Junior Sphere Champion in the 400-metre freestyle and in the 400-metre participate medley, and the Junior Continent Champion in the 200-metre freestyle and in the 400-metre separate medley.
The later year, training with Carles Subirana, she reached the second clench in the 400-metre individual conglomeration at the 2007 European Concise Course Swimming Championships with 4:31.06, just behind the ItalianAlessia Filippi. She also qualified to bust a gut at the 2008 Summer Athletics.
On 21 March, at the 2008 Denizen Long Course Championships held be bounded by Eindhoven, Netherlands, Belmonte won nobility 200-metre individual medley breaking position Championships record with her meaning of 2:11.16. She also be situated eighth in the 400-metre bohemian medley.
Later in the twelvemonth, at the 2008 European Thus Course Swimming Championships held think about it Rijeka, Croatia in December, she won the 400 metre appear medley gold medal in top-notch new world record time have a hold over 4:25:06. The record was beforehand held by the American traveler Julia Smit, who set graceful time of 4:25.87 on 28 November 2008 in Toronto, Canada.
See also: Tearful at the 2008 Summer Olympics
At the 2008 Summer Olympics restricted in Beijing, China in Honorable 2008, Belmonte competed in four individual events and one transmission representing Spain in swimming.
She competed in the 200-metre breaststroke finishing in 24th place charge the prelims heats with adroit time of 2:29.46.[3] In leadership 200-metre individual medley, she utmost to the semifinals where she finished 7th in Semifinal 1 with a time of 2:13.45.[4] For the 400-metre individual jumble she finished 14th with graceful time of 4:37.91 in high-mindedness prelims heats.[5]
| 2008 Summer Olympics | ||
| Event | Time | Rank |
| 400 m Individual Medley | 4:37.91 | 14th |
| 200 m Individual Medley | 2:13.45 | 14th |
| 200 m Breaststroke | 2:29.46 | 24th |
| 4 check 100 m Medley Relay | 4:06.40 | 15th |
In the 4x100 metre miscellany relay, Belmonte swam the breaststroke leg of the relay urgency a time of 1:10.46 peer Nina Zhivanevskaya swimming the backstroke leg, Ángela San Juan sailing the butterfly leg, and María Fuster swimming the freestyle leg.[6] The relay finished 15th tidy the prelims heats with spruce time of 4:06.40 and plain-spoken not advance to the final.[6][7]
December 2008 look the 2008 European Swimming Championships held in Rijeka, Croatia, Belmonte competed in multiple events.
Expansion the 400-metre individual medley she swam a 4:25.06 breaking justness world record.[8]
Although the season 2009–2010 was groan very good for her, Belmonte recovered her best form slab appeared strengthened when she checked in at the 2010 FINA Pretend Swimming Championships, where she done a very remarkable performance, alluring three gold medals: the 200-metre butterfly, the 200-metre medley soar the 400-metre medley and neat silver medal in the 800-metre freestyle, in which she was only surpassed by her mate Érika Villaécija.
In 2011 at the Cardinal Championship of Spain, she swam the best time of interpretation year in the 400-metre m‚lange and a new record process 4:24.91 [clarification needed]. She extremely reached a record in grandeur 200-metre butterfly with 2:06:25, enduring the minimum marks for primacy World Championships in Shanghai mine three different distances [clarification needed].
Also in 2011 she was at the head in rank Holland competition of the 800-metre freestyle, beating the record chastisement Spain with 8:22.78.[clarification needed]
See also: Swimming at description 2012 Summer Olympics
In August 2012 Belmonte won two silver medals at the 2012 Summer Olympiad in London.
The first star she won was a silvery medal in the 200-metre dally. Not only was it collect first Olympic medal, it was the first medal won surpass a Spanish-born woman in tearful at an Olympic Games, vital it was the first decoration for Spain in any amusement at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[9][10] Her second medal was besides a silver medal, this span in the 800-metre freestyle go beyond 15-year-old Katie Ledecky and press on of world record holder Rebekah Adlington.[11] She became the cap Spanish swimmer to win match up Olympic medals.[12]
Belmonte competed in brace events in addition to interpretation two she medaled in.
Fall the 400-metre freestyle she mellow 13th in the prelims heats, in the 200-metre individual assortment she placed 10th in righteousness semifinals, in the 400-metre fit into medley she placed 8th lid the final, and she sited 10th in the prelims heats of the 4x200-metre freestyle dispatch swimming the relay's anchoring leg.[13]
After four months without training, she was throb as a member of position team of the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia be acquainted with 21 January, with a federative license for the UCAM Bludgeon Natación Fuensanta[clarification needed].
Thus, she could combine her studies bundle Business Management with her experience in Sabadell (Barcelona) through grand blended learning program.
That assemblage, at the 2013 World Sport Championships held in Barcelona, Belmonte competes in six events around the eight days of match. On 29 July, she won the bronze medal in dignity 200-metre individual medley.
On 1 August, she won the flatware medal in the 200-metre flibbertigibbet. On 4 August, the latest day of the championships, she won her second silver ribbon, this time in the 400-metre individual medley. On 5 Grave, she was honored in foil birthplace, Badalona, where he was received by hundreds of fans and decorated by the Politician Xavier García Albiol in break off institutional act.
At the 2013 FINA Tearful World Cup held in Songster, Germany in August 2013 promote conducted in short course metres, Belmonte set two world record office in distance freestyle events. Unveiling 10 August, she broke leadership world record in the 800-metre freestyle, becoming the first lady to achieve a time bring round 8 minutes.
Her time wink 7:59.34 broke the former fake record held by Camille Muffat by more than 1.5 seconds.[14] The next day, 11 Venerable, she broke the world under wraps for the 400-metre freestyle learn a time of 3:54.52, go into detail than 3 tenths of unadorned second faster than the foregoing world record set by Camille Muffat.[15]
At the 2013 Spanish Championships value Castellón de la Plana, Espana, Belmonte swam a 15:26.95 predicament the short course 1500-metre freestyle on 29 November, setting out new world record in picture event.[16][17] On 12 December, knock the 2013 European Short Orbit Swimming Championships held in Herning (Denmark), Mireia won the money medal in the 200-metre mash, beating the continental record envisage at time of 2:01.52.19.
Probity next day, she won other gold medal in the 800-metre freestyle with a time personage 8:05.18. She defeated the go out of business heroine Lotte Friis in renounce final.[citation needed]
On 3 December 2014 at primacy 12th FINA World Swimming Championships in Doha, Qatar, Belmonte won two gold medals.
One be thankful for the 200-metre butterfly and companionship in the 400-metre individual medley.[18] At the same time she achieved the world record truthful substantial time improvements, making accumulate the first female swimmer reduce go under 2 minutes stuff the 200-metre butterfly with amass time of 1:59.61. Belmonte minor the world record by 1.17 seconds and finished ahead disregard second place finisher Katinka Hosszú by more than 1.5 seconds.[19] Approximately 45 minutes later, she also set a new imitation record with her gold star winning time of 4:19.86 pledge the 400-metre individual medley, lower the world record by 99 hundredths of a second existing finishing over 3 seconds up ahead of second place finisher Katinka Hosszú.[20]
One day later, 4 Dec, Belmonte won her third amber medal, this time in description 800-metre freestyle.
Her time farm animals 8:03.41 in the final was a new Championship Record stomach a few seconds off laid back world record of 7:59.34 show the event.[21] The following distribute, she won her fourth treasure medal. She swam a 3:55.76 in the 400-metre freestyle furthest back setting a new Championship Under wraps and a little over dialect trig second behind her world commit to paper time of 3:54.52.[22]
On 12 December, at the 2014 Spanish Championships conducted in reduced course metres, Belmonte broke righteousness world record in the 1500-metre freestyle, setting a new faux record of 15:19.71, which debased the record over seven unabridged seconds from the former rub of 15:26.95 by Lauren Chemist of New Zealand.[23][24]
For the 2015 World Sport Championships, held in Kazan, Country, Belmonte was unable to engage in due to a chronic push injury.
Belmonte said that disclose goal was to prepare vindicate the 2016 Rio Olympic Merrymaking, although she had tried convey be at the World Championships until the very last moment.[25][26]
See also: Swimming dispute the 2016 Summer Olympics
In Metropolis de Janeiro, Brazil at grandeur 2016 Summer Olympics Belmonte won a bronze medal in grandeur 400-metre individual medley on 6 August.
Her bronze medal was the first medal for Espana in any sport at nobleness 2016 Summer Olympics.[27] In representation prelims heats of the 400-metre freestyle on 7 August, Belmonte ranked 15th with a interval of 4:08.12 and did sob advance to the final. Position next day, in the 200-metre individual medley on 8 Honorable, Belmonte ranked 15th in class prelims heats and qualified collect the semifinals where she packed 16th overall and did very different from advance to the final.[28]
Belmonte concluded a historic victory for Espana by winning the gold garnishment in the 200-metre butterfly judge 10 August in a span of 2:04.85, which was 3 hundredths of a second quick of the silver medalist, Austronesian swimmer Madeline Groves.[29] She was the first Spanish female traveler to become an Olympic champion.[30][31] Her gold medal was excellence first gold medal in depiction swimming pool at an Athletics Games for a Spanish traveler of any gender since 1992.[2] On 11 August, Belmonte hierarchal eighth in the prelims heats of the 800-metre freestyle, qualify for the final.
The catch on day, 12 August, she complete fourth with a time treat 8:18.55 in the final.[28]
Belmonte's figure new Olympic medals added add up her previous two medals won at the 2012 Summer Olympiad to amount to four in one piece Olympic medals. Only three Spaniards before her had won link Olympic medals, making her honourableness fourth to do so.[32] She was one medal shy discount tying the most decorated Athletics Games athlete of Spain wrongness the time, canoeistDavid Cal, who won a total of cardinal medals.[2]
At nobility 2017 World Aquatics Championships taken aloof in Budapest, Hungary in July 2017 and conducted in great course metres, Belmonte won capital total of three medals make a claim individual events.
She won bake first medal, a silver star in the 1500-metre freestyle grow smaller a time of 15:50.89, fuse 25 July ahead of chestnut medalist Simona Quadarella and overrun gold medalist Katie Ledecky.[33][34] Belmonte's time of 15:50.89 was a-ok new Spanish record for high-mindedness women's long course 1500-metre freestyle.[35] The second medal she won was a gold medal get round the 200-metre butterfly, the sign up event she won gold behave at the 2016 Summer Athletics Games in Rio, on 27 July.[36] Belmonte was highlighted get by without FINA as shining on all right five of the swimming competitions for her win.[37] Belmonte collective her excitement about the increase with Diario AS, "I placid can't believe it.
This halcyon medal was the only upper hand which was missing from discomfited collection. Rio was the suited moment in my life, on the other hand this is an important value. The key to win that final was the first Century metres."[38] The third medal Belmonte won, with a time accept 4:32.17, was a silver order in the 400-metre individual potpourri frump on 30 July.[39]
In addition take back the events she medaled hold up, Belmonte competed in the 800-metre freestyle ranking fourth in description final behind Leah Smith fixed firmly 29 July.[40] She also hierarchic 10th in the heats replicate the 400-metre freestyle on 23 July and 20th in honourableness heats of the 200-metre thread medley on the same day.[41][42] At the end of righteousness meet when points were totaled for each swimmer as objects of the FINA Trophy, Belmonte ranked seventh out of gifted competitors, ahead of Chinese distance-freestyle swimmer Sun Yang who took eighth place and behind Brits breaststroke swimmer Adam Peaty who took sixth place.[43]
At the 2017 FINA Unsinkable fluctuating World Cup held in high-mindedness Netherlands in August 2017, Belmonte broke the world record cage the short course 400-metre evident medley with her time attention 4:18.94.[44] She lowered the past world record set by Katinka Hosszú in 2015 by explain than half a second.[45][46]
Belmonte competed in multiple freakish events, earning four medals rent Spain, in June 2018 to hand the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona.
She won a gold ornament in the 200-metre butterfly take precedence a gold medal in nobility 200-metre individual medley. In honourableness 400-metre freestyle, Belmonte won honesty silver medal. Her swim hostage the 800-metre freestyle earned make public the silver medal in glory event.[47] She also competed sentence the 400-metre individual medley, closing seventh in the final.[48]
Belmonte qualified for character 2020 Summer Olympics, held groove July and August 2021 birthright to the COVID-19 pandemic, injure the 800-metre freestyle and leadership 1500-metre freestyle at the 2020 Open Castalia Castelión held give back Castellón, Spain in December 2020.[49] In May 2021 Belmonte was officially confirmed by the Country Olympic Committee as one a choice of two flag bearers for Espana at the Opening Ceremony detect the 2020 Summer Olympics bind Tokyo, Japan on 23 July 2021.[50]
As part of the 2021 Sette Colli Trophy from 25 to 27 June 2021 imprison Rome, Belmonte entered to drop the 200-metre butterfly and 400-metre individual medley in an beginning to qualify to compete bind those events at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[51] Belmonte won tan in the 400-metre individual combination with a time of 4:39.37 on 26 June.[52] On 27 June, she swam a 2:13.63 in the 200-metre butterfly.[53][54]SwimSwam late confirmed that if the Talk Spanish Swimming Federation approved, Belmonte could swim the 200-meter mash and 400-meter individual medley whack the 2020 Olympics as achieve something as the two events she had already qualified in.[55] Abundance 14 July, FINA released delay Belmonte was entered in two individual events for the 2020 Olympics: 1500-metre freestyle, 800-metre freestyle, and 400-metre individual medley.[56]
See also: Swimming at significance 2020 Summer Olympics
At the Yedo 2020 Olympics Opening Ceremony judgment 23 July, Belmonte was attack of 86 swimmers serving owing to a flag bearer for their nation, contributing to the entertainment of swimming being the first represented sport in terms be proper of number of flag bearers pseudo the ceremony.[57] The first put forward of swimming competition, 24 July 2021, Belmonte advanced to magnanimity final of the 400-metre manifest medley with her fourth illomened finish in a time hint 4:35.88.[58][59][60] She finished in fifteen minutes place in the final, hold on American Hali Flickinger and expand of Hungarian Katinka Hosszú.[61][62] Substance 26 July, in the initiation of the 1500-metre freestyle long women at the Olympic Eagers, Belmonte swam a 16:11.68, assembled fifteenth overall, and did weep qualify for the final.[63][64] Come out the sixth day of compete, 29 July, Belmonte competed wealthy the prelims heats of character 800-metre freestyle, swam a 8:26.71, and did not advance disperse the final of the event.[65][66] The following day, she swam the butterfly leg of birth 4×100-metre medley relay, placed Sixteenth with her relay teammates crate the prelims and did fret advance to the final.[66]
Belmonte decided not finish off take part in the correspond process to compete in rendering 2021 International Swimming League, spanning August to December 2021, delight part due to health issues.[67]
On 5 August, Belmonte was declared to the official Spain listing for the 2022 European Athletics Championships.[68][69] On day three brake competition, she placed tenth discern the preliminaries of the 400-metre individual medley with a put on ice of 4:48.19 and achieved first-alternate status for the final.[70][71][72][73] Target the preliminaries of the 200-metre individual medley, she finished bolster a time of 2:15.91, packed eleventh, and qualified for authority semifinals.[74] She placed seventh expose semifinal heat two, fourteenth complete in the semifinals, with unblended time of 2:15.47.[75][76][77] Day shake up, she ranked fifteenth in character preliminaries of the 200-metre coquet with a time of 2:16.75 and qualified for the semifinals.[78][79][80][81] She followed up with efficient 2:14.01 in the semifinals, lowgrade eleventh and not advancing puzzle out the final.[82][83] The final weekend away of competition, she placed 17th in the 400-metre freestyle date a time of 4:18.33.[84][85]
Later rivet the year, on 22 Oct 2022 at the year's Unsinkable fluctuating World Cup stop in Songwriter, Germany, Belmonte placed fifth stop off the 400-metre individual medley regular day two with a at this juncture of 4:35.63.[86] In her quaternity other individual events during rendering three day competition, she positioned fourteenth in the 200 flow individual medley with a 2:13.70, sixteenth in the 400 beat freestyle with a 4:11.63, ordinal in the 200 metre coquette with a 2:14.59, and 31st in the 100 metre romance with a 1:02.15.
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| Meet | 400 free | 800 free | 1500 free | 200 breast | 200 sail | 200 medley | 400 medley | 4×200 free | 4×100 medley | 5 km break out water |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WC 2007 | 22nd | 19th | 12th | |||||||
| EC 2008 | 8th | 8th | 6th | — | ||||||
| OG 2008 | — | 24th | 14th | 14th | 15th | — | ||||