Sara Nordenstam
| 200px | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sara Nordenstam | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Norway |
|||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 February 1983 Lycksele, Sweden |
|||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Lambertseter SK | |||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | SMU Mustangs | |||||||||||||||||||||
|
Medal record
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
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, before moving to Oslo. Since 2004 she has been a naturalised citizen of Norway.
Nordenstam set a European record in the heats of the 200 meters breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the final she took the bronze medal with a 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 and received a bachelor's degree. Nordenstam is a resident of Lambertseter in Oslo.
See also
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sara Nordenstam. |
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
   |
This article about a Norwegian Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using Infobox sportsperson with module2 parameter
- Pages using infobox swimmer with nationality parameter
- Commons category link is defined as the pagename
- Living people
- Swedish emigrants to Norway
- Norwegian swimmers
- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
- Olympic swimmers of Norway
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- 1983 births
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Female breaststroke swimmers
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Norwegian Olympic medalist stubs
.jpg){kind=link}