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Sarah Sjöström

Sarah Sjöström
Kazan 2015 - Sjöström WR award cropped.JPG
Sjöström in 2015
Personal information
Full name Sarah Fredrika Sjöström
National team  Sweden
Born (1993-08-17) 17 August 1993 (age 23)
Salem, Sweden
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 150 lb (68 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, freestyle, backstroke
Club Södertörns SS

Sarah Fredrika Sjöström (Swedish: [ˈɧøːˌstɾøm]; born 17 August 1993) is a Swedish competitive swimmer specialized in the sprint freestyle and butterfly events. She is the current world record holder in the 50 meter butterfly (long course), the 100 meter butterfly (long course and short course), and the 200 meter freestyle (short course). She is the first Swedish woman to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming.

On 22 March 2008, at the age of 14, she took the gold medal in women's 100 m butterfly at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. She was clocked for 58.44 seconds. In the semi-finals the day before, she set a new national record with 58.38 seconds, breaking Anna-Karin Kammerling's old one (58.71 seconds). At the Swedish championships in 2008 she swam at 58.55.

On 26 July 2009 at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships Sjöström set a world record in the semifinals with a time of 56.44, surpassing Inge de Bruijn's nine-year-old record. On the next day, in the finals for the women's 100 m butterfly, she won the gold medal and improved her world record time to 56.06.

At the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, she defended her 2008 gold medal by winning the women's 100 m butterfly stroke. (The European Aquatics Championships is a biennial event and hence did not take place in 2009.)


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