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Sara Nordenstam Personal information Full name Sara Nordenstam Nationality Norway
Born February 28, 1983
Lycksele, SwedenHeight 1.69 m Weight 70 kg Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Breaststroke Club Lambertseter SK College team SMU Mustangs Medal recordWomen's swimming Competitor for Norway
Olympic Games Bronze 2008 Beijing 200 m breaststroke European Championships (LC) Silver 2010 Budapest 200 m breaststroke Sara Maria Evelina Nordenstam (born 28 February 1983 in Lycksele, Sweden) is a Norwegian swimmer. Nordenstam was born to Swedish parents and lived in Sweden until she was 10, after which she moved to Oslo. From 2004 she is a naturalised citizen of Norway.
Nordenstam set a European record in the heats of 200 meters breaststroke at the Summer Olympics 2008 in Beijing. In the final she took bronze medal with new European record of 2:23,02, making her the first Norwegian woman to win an Olympic swimming medal.[1]
Nordenstam has 16 Norwegian championship medals.
Nordenstam studied advertising and marketing in the United States receiving a Bachelor degrees. Nordenstam a resident of Lambertseter in Oslo.
See also
- List of Norwegian records in swimming
References
- ^ Goll, Svein. "Nordenstam wins Bronze medal". Aftenposten. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/sports/article2595466.ece. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
Categories:- Living people
- Norwegian swimmers
- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
- Olympic swimmers of Norway
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- 1983 births
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Female breaststroke swimmers
- Norwegian sportspeople stubs
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