Mireia Belmonte

For the 400-metre individual medley she finished 14th with a time of 4:37.91 in the prelims heats.

In the 4x100 metre medley relay, Belmonte swam the breaststroke leg of the relay in a time of 1:10.46 with Nina Zhivanevskaya swimming the backstroke leg, Ángela San Juan swimming the butterfly leg, and María Fuster swimming the freestyle leg.

In the 400-metre freestyle she finished 13th in the prelims heats, in the 200-metre individual medley she placed 10th in the semifinals, in the 400-metre individual medley she placed 8th in the final, and she placed 10th in the prelims heats of the 4x200-metre freestyle relay swimming the relay's anchoring leg.

Mireia Belmonte García (born 10 November 1990) is a Spanish Olympic, world, and European champion swimmer.

She is the world record holder in the short course 200 metre butterfly and 400 metre individual medley.

Formerly, she held the world record in the short course 400 metre freestyle, 800 metre freestyle, and 1500 metre freestyle.

She was the first Spanish woman to win a gold medal in swimming at an Olympic Games and is widely considered to be the greatest Spanish swimmer of all time.

In 2003, she obtained a scholarship from Federación Catalana de Natación (in Catalan) to train at the Centro de Alto Rendimiento (High Performance Center, CAR) in San Cugat del Vallés.

Her coach was Jordi Murio when she was signed by Club Natació L'Hospitalet (in Catalan).

At the 2006 FINA Youth World Championships, she was the Junior World Champion in the 400-metre freestyle and in the 400-metre individual medley, and the Junior European Champion in the 200-metre freestyle and in the 400-metre individual medley.

After 6 years in this club, she was signed in the 2007/08 season by Club Natación Sabadell (in Catalan).

She continued training at the CAR with her new coach, Carles Subirana.

The following year, training with Carles Subirana, she reached the second place in the 400-metre individual medley at the 2007 European Short Course Swimming Championships with 4:31.06, just behind the Italian Alessia Filippi.

She previously competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, where she debuted at 17 years old, and at 2012 London, where she won two silver medals, one in the 200 metre butterfly with a time of 2:05.25 and 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), moved to Catalonia and the family has always lived in the La Salud quarter of Badalona.

She was advised to swim at the age of 5 by her doctor.

Club Natació Badalona (in Catalan) was the swimming club where she started to compete.

She also qualified to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

On 21 March, at the 2008 European Long Course Championships held in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Belmonte won the 200-metre individual medley breaking the Championships record with her time of 2:11.16.

She also placed eighth in the 400-metre individual medley.

Later in the year, at the 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships held in Rijeka, Croatia in December, she won the 400 metre individual medley gold medal in a new world record time of 4:25:06.

The record was previously held by the American swimmer Julia Smit, who set a time of 4:25.87 on 28 November 2008 in Toronto, Canada.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China in August 2008, Belmonte competed in three individual events and one relay representing Spain in swimming.

She competed in the 200-metre breaststroke finishing in 24th place in the prelims heats with a time of 2:29.46.

In the 200-metre individual medley, she advanced to the semifinals where she finished 7th in Semifinal 1 with a time of 2:13.45.

December 2008 at the 2008 European Swimming Championships held in Rijeka, Croatia, Belmonte competed in multiple events.

In the 400-metre individual medley she swam a 4:25.06 breaking the world record.

In 2009 she left the CAR and moved to the Club Natación Sabadell to train with Michael Piper and later Fred Vernoux.

Although the season 2009–2010 was not very good for her, Belmonte recovered her best form and appeared strengthened when she arrived at the 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships, where she achieved a very remarkable performance, winning three gold medals: the 200-metre butterfly, the 200-metre medley and the 400-metre medley and a silver medal in the 800-metre freestyle, in which she was only surpassed by her teammate Érika Villaécija.

In 2011 at the XII Championship of Spain, she swam the best time of the year in the 400-metre medley and a new record with 4:24.91.

She also reached a record in the 200-metre butterfly with 2:06:25, obtaining the minimum marks for the World Championships in Shanghai at three different distances.

Also in 2011 she was at the head in the Holland competition of the 800-metre freestyle, beating the record of Spain with 8:22.78.

In August 2012 Belmonte won two silver medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

The first medal she won was a silver medal in the 200-metre butterfly.

Not only was it her first Olympic medal, it was the first medal won by a Spanish-born woman in swimming at an Olympic Games, and it was the first medal for Spain in any sport at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Her second medal was also a silver medal, this time in the 800-metre freestyle behind 15-year-old Katie Ledecky and ahead of world record holder Rebecca Adlington.

She became the first Spanish swimmer to win two Olympic medals.

Belmonte competed in four events in addition to the two she medaled in.

The relay finished 15th in the prelims heats with a time of 4:06.40 and did not advance to the final.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro she became Olympic champion in the 200-metre butterfly, and also won the bronze medal in the 400-metre individual medley.