Jeanette Ottesen

Jeanette Ottesen
Personal information
Full name Jeanette Ottesen
National team  Denmark
Born (1987-12-30) 30 December 1987
Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight 70 kg (150 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Club Kvik Kastrup

Jeanette Ottesen (born 30 December 1987)[2] is a Danish competitive swimmer who participated at the 2004, 2008, 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics. She currently holds the Danish record in the 100 m butterfly events, both long course (50 m pool) and short course (25 m pool). She swims in the swimming club Kvik Kastrup and mainly concentrates on the short distances in freestyle and butterfly.

Ottesen's won her first international title at the 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Rijeka, Croatia in the 100 m butterfly. She has won two individual long course world titles; in 100 m freestyle in 2011 (shared with Aleksandra Gerasimenya from Belarus, and in the 50 m butterfly in 2013.

In June 2015, two months before the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia, Ottesen and her boyfriend Marco Loughran were attacked in a road rage incident in Copenhagen, during which she broke her finger. She recovered in time and won two silver medals at the world championships.[3]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won a bronze medal as a part of the 4x100 m medley relay alongside Rikke Møller Pedersen, Mie Ø. Nielsen and Pernille Blume. Here they also broke the European record with a time of 3:55.01.

References

  1. 1 2 Jeanette Ottesen at Sports-reference.com. Retrieved on 7 December 2015.
  2. "About me". Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  3. "World champion swimmer Jeanette Ottesen injured in road rage attack". The Sydney Morning Herald. June 25, 2015. Retrieved May 17, 2016.

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Caroline Wozniacki
Danish Sports Name of the Year
2011
Succeeded by
Lasse Norman Hansen


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