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Jeanette Ottesen

Jeanette Ottesen

Danish swimmer (born 1987)


Jeanette Ottesen (born 30 December 1987)[2] is a Danish competitive swimmer who participated at the 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. In total, she has won 50 international medals.

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Records

She currently holds the Danish record in the following:

Long course (50 m pool): 50 m butterfly, 100 m butterfly[3][4]

Short course (25 m pool): 50 m butterfly, 100 m butterfly, 50 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle[5][6][7]

Career

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.[8]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won a bronze medal as a part of the 4 × 100 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.

In 2020, Ottesen was part of the NY Breakers in the International Swimming League.[9]

She swims in the swimming club Kvik Kastrup and mainly concentrates on the short distances in freestyle and butterfly.

Personal life

On 13 August 2011 she married Bobby William Gray, whom she had been dating for 8 years.[10] The couple separated in 2013 and got divorced in 2014.[11]

In February 2017 she got engaged to British swimmer Marco Loughran, whom she has been dating since 2014.[12] On 30 June 2017 she announced, via her blog, that they are expecting their first child.[13] The couple wed in a surprise ceremony, in Copenhagen, on 16 July 2017.[14] In December 2022 she announced that Marco Loughran and her were getting divorced.

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References

  1. Jeanette Ottesen Archived 2015-09-12 at the Wayback Machine at Sports-reference.com. Retrieved on 7 December 2015.
  2. "About me". Archived from the original on 2016-01-15. Retrieved 2015-12-07.
  3. "Women's 50m Butterfly Final Results". Omega Timing. 3 August 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  4. "Women's 100m Butterfly Final Results" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 22 August 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  5. "Women's 50m Freestyle Results". Omega Timing. 12 December 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  6. "Women's 100m Freestyle Results". Omega Timing. 9 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  7. "ISL". a.isl.global. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  8. Christoffersen, Elo (February 8, 2017). "Jeanette Ottesen skal giftes - igen".
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