Louise Hansson

Louise Hansson

Personal information
Full name	Louise Maria Hansson
National team	Sweden
Born	(1996-11-24) 24 November 1996
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, butterfly
Club	Helsingborgs SS
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Sweden World Championships (LC) 2015 Kazan 4×100 m medley World Championships (SC) 2014 Doha 4 × 200 m freestyle European Championships (LC) 2014 Berlin 4×100 m freestyle 2012 Debrecen 4×100 m freestyle 2014 Berlin 4×200 m freestyle 2014 Berlin 4×100 m medley 2016 London 4×100 m freestyle European Championships (SC) 2015 Netanya 4×50 m medley 2015 Netanya 200 m medley

Louise Maria Hansson (born 24 November 1996) is a Swedish competitive swimmer, a member of Helsingborgs SS.^[2]

Results

Junior

At the 2011 European Junior Swimming Championships, she won gold in the 50 m butterfly and a silver medal in the 50 m freestyle. At the 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships, she again won gold in the 50m butterfly.

Senior

At the 2012 European Aquatics Championships, she won a silver medal as part of the Swedish 4×100 m freestyle team.

At the 2013 World Aquatics Championships, she finished fourth in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay. She won a silver medal at the 2014 World Championships (25m) in Doha, Qatar in the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay, and finished fourth in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay.

She won a gold medal at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships in Berlin with her team in the 4×100 m freestyle, and silver medals in the 4×200 m freestyle, in a new Swedish record, and the 4×100 m medley.

Individually, at the 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), she finished 8th in the final of the Women's 100 metre freestyle, 9th in the 50 metre butterfly, missing out on the final with one hundredth of a second, and 9th as well in the 100 metre butterfly.

At the 2012 European Aquatics Championships, she finished 9th in the 50 metre butterfly.

She finished 9th in the 200 metre freestyle and tenth in the 200 metre individual medley and in the 100 metre butterfly at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships.

Hansson won her first international medal in an individual event, a bronze in the 200 m individual medley, at the 2015 Short Course Championships in Netanya, Israel. In the 4×50 m medley relay she won a silver medal swimming the backstroke lead-off leg. Her sister Sophie swam the second (breaststroke) leg.^[3]

Personal records

The personal bests of Louise Hansson, as of 8 December 2015.^[2]

Personal

She lives in Ramlösa, Helsingborg, Sweden.^[4] Her younger sister Sophie Hansson is also a competitive swimmer,^[5] winner of a bronze medal at the 2014 European Junior Swimming Championships and finishing fourth in the 50 metre breaststroke at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.^[6] Her father Lars-Olof Hansson is the coach at her club Helsingborgs SS. She also has a younger brother Gustaf. She studies natural sciences at the Nationell Idrottsutbildning, a sport school in Helsingborg.^[7]

References