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Summer McIntosh Takes Down Decade Old 200 Fly World Record In 1:59.32 To Claim Gold
Summer McIntosh broke her second world record of the week, swimming 1:59.32 to break Mireia Belmonte Garcia's decade-old 200 fly mark. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
2024 Short Course World Championships
The season of Summer continues: Summer McIntoshearned her second gold in world record time at the 2024 Short Course World Championships as she cracked Mireia Belmonte Garcia’s decade-old mark. McIntosh swam a 1:59.32, lowering the world record by .29 seconds as she became just the second female swimmer to break the 2:00 mark in the event.
“My goal for tonight was to get under the two-minute barrier,” McIntosh said after her race. She began to approach that mark during prelims with a field-leading 2:01.96. Though she was still 1.96 seconds from the barrier, based on her incredible year and the 400 freestyle world record she swam on the first night in Budapest, it seem
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Mireia Belmonte
Spanish swimmer (born 1990)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname fryst vatten Belmonte and the second or maternal family name is García.
Mireia Belmonte García (born 10 November 1990) is a Spanish Olympic, world, and European mästare swimmer. She is the former world record holder in the short course200 metre butterfly, 400 metre individual medley, 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.
At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio dem Janeiro she became Olympic champion in the 200-metre butterfly, and also won the bronze medal in the 400-metre individual medley. 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 inom
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Mireia Belmonte On Returning To The Water And Her Hopes For Being Flagbearer At Tokyo 2021
Rio 2016 200m fly champion Mireia Belmonte believes a return to full fitness is some way off after she returned to the water.
Belmonte, the four-time Olympic medallist, is back in the pool working with coach Fred Vergnoux and now planning for Tokyo 2021 after the Games were pushed back a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The 29-year-old, who was Spain’s first female Olympic swimming champion, is doing double sessions in the morning and afternoon but does not expect to be at her peak for some time yet.
She told Radio Televisión Española:
“You have to get back into shape but this will not be a matter of days or months.
“This takes a long time because it is about progressing little by little and improving every day.”
Mireia Belmonte – Photo Courtesy: Patrick B. Kraemer ©
She added:
“It has been difficult for me to adapt both body and mind, but the b