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Belmonte wins Spain's first gold medal in Rio pool

Xinhua, August 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

Mireia Belmonte claimed Spain's first gold medal in the pool at the Rio Olympics by winning the women's 200m butterfly final on Wednesday.

The 25-year-old, the silver medallist in this event at the London 2012 Games, finished in 2 minutes 04.85 seconds, three hundredths of a second in front of Australia's Madeline Groves.

Japan's Natsumi Hoshi was third, 0.35sec further back.

Fourth was Cammile Adams of the USA, with China's Zhou Yilin coming in fifth.

It was Belmonte's second medal of the Rio Games, having also taken bronze in the 400m individual medley on Saturday. Endit