Mireia Belmonte missed a new opportunity to get a ticket for the Budapest World Championships, after being relegated this Saturday to the B final of the 100 medley at the Spanish Short Course Championships taking place in Madrid, after concluding the series in eleventh position with a time of 1:04.00 minutes.
Four seconds more than the minimum -59.65 seconds- required by the Spanish Swimming Federation to go to the Magyar capital next December. In fact, Belmonte, who turned 34 last Sunday, he failed to get close to 1:03.25 minutes which he signed last October in Barcelona and which constitute his best mark of the course.
A circumstance that suggests that the quadruple Olympic medalist will find it very difficult, if not impossible, to achieve the minimum this afternoon, If he does not decide to give up participating in the final Bjust as he did on Thursday with the B final of the 400 freestyle.
However, Mireia Belmonte, who has not participated, hampered by her shoulder problems, in a major international competition since the European Championships in Rome 2022, This Sunday you will have a new option to achieve the desired World Cup ticket in the 200 styles.
