Mireia Belmonte: "Despite not training for six months, I think it has been a good year"

MADRID, (EUROPA PRESS)

The swimmer Mireia Belmonte acknowledges, when reviewing 2022, that despite spending six months without training, after the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, that it has been "a good year" with the change of coach and the new ways of working which he had to get used to.

"It's been a year of changes. I changed my coach and I changed my training method. So, well, it's been a year to get used to new ways of working. In the end I was able to go to a European Championship, where I think I did a good performance, despite not training for six months after the Olympic Games, I think it's been a good year," said the athlete in an interview with Europa Press.

After a year of absence from the international stage -since Tokyo 2020-, the Spanish reappeared in the continental championships in Rome last August, where she could not reach any final, but which served as a set-up. "You always have to know where you come from. No matter how much you achieve, you have to know that you have achieved it with effort and dedication, because nobody has given you anything," she said.

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are the great challenge for Badalona, ​​where she will try to add another medal to her personal score, after those achieved in London 2012 (silver in the 200-meter butterfly and another silver in the 800-meter freestyle) and Rio de Janeiro 2016 (gold in 200 butterfly and bronze in 400 styles).

However, Belmonte is focused on 2023 and doing well at the World Championships in Japan, which will take place next July. "I hope I know what 2023 will bring me. I hope to have many successes and above all I want to continue improving. This year we have the Fukoka World Championship in Japan and my goal is to reach the minimum mark to be able to reach that test" , settled.