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Mireia Belmonte Garcia is a golden girl again…

The 24-year-old Spanish swimmer cruised to victory in the women’s 800 freestyle on Thursday to claim her third gold medal at the FINA World Short Course Championships.

It only took two nights, and Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia already matched her gold-medal output from 2010 as she topped the 800 free tonight with a meet record.

On Wednesday, Belmonte Garcia won the women’s 200-meter butterfly and 400-meter individual medley in record times.

Belmonte Garcia chased down the distance freestyle gold with an 8:03.41. That equals her 2010 output, which was the most gold medals won by a Spaniard in short course worlds history.

Belmonte Garcia’s time may not have been close to her world record 7:59.34 from the Berlin stop of the FINA World Cup last year, but it was more than enough to crack Rebecca Adlington’s 2008 meet record of 8:08.25.

Mireia Belmonte García may soon be called Spain’s “silver bullet”…

Fol lowing her second place finish in the 200 meter butterfly to put her country on the medal scoreboard , the 21-year-old Spanish swimmer picked up her second silver of the 2012 Olympic Games on Friday in the women’s 800m freestyle.

Despite finishing four seconds behind the surprise victor, 15-year-old Katie Ledecky of the United States, Belmonte managed to swim past defending Olympic champion and pre-race favorite Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain at the 700-meter mark to move into second place.

Belomonte touched the wall at 8:18.76 to claim the silver and give Spain its third-ever Olympic medal in women’s swimming.

Adlington, was seeking to become the first British woman to retain an Olympic title, following her success in the event in Beijing, had to settle for bronze.

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