Mireia Belmonte Garcia’s 400 Free Meet Mark Secures Fourth Gold Medal at Worlds – Video

DOHA – Mireia Belmonte Garcia cruised her way to a fourth gold medal here at the FINA World Short Course Championships with a meet record in the 400 free. Watch Race Video

Belmonte Garcia hit the wall in 3:55.76 to win the middle-distance freestyle event, smashing Katie Hoff’s meet record of 3:57.07 from 2010. The time missed Belmonte Garcia’s world record of 3:54.52 set last year in Berlin on the FINA World Cup circuit.

Belmonte Garcia is just the third European woman to ever win four gold medals at a single World Short Course Championship (200 IM, 400 IM, 400 free, 800 free). She joins The Netherlands’ Marleen Veldhuis (2008) and Sweden’s Therese Alshammar (2000, 2002).

Belmonte Garcia also joins USA’s Janet Evans as just the second swimmer to win both the women’s 400 and 800 freestyle events at the same worlds. Evans did it back in 1993.

The Netherlands’ Sharon van Rouwendaal, Swimming World’s Open Water Swimmer of the Year, placed second in 3:57.76, while China’s Zhang Yufei finished third in 3:59.51. Zhang, just 16, set the Asian record in the event by breaking the 4:00.55 set by Liu Jing back in 2010.

Japan’s Chihiro Igarashi (3:59.59) smashed the Japanese record of 4:01.04 set by Sachiko Yamada back in 2007.

Hungary’s Boglarka Kapas (4:00.27), Great Britain’s Jaz Carlin (4:02.32), USA’s Elizabeth Beisel (4:03.83) and Australia’s Leah Neale (4:06.45) also competed in the scorching-fast finale.

Name	100	200	300	400
Belmonte Garcia	57.20	1:56.92	2:56.47	3:55.76
Van Rouwendaal	57.26	1:57.26	2:57.62	3:57.76
Zhang	59.08	1:59.11	2:59.89	3:59.51

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