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Therese Alshammar
Therese Alshammar in January 2013
Personal information
Full nameMalin Therese Alshammar
NicknameTessan
Nationality Sweden
Born (1977-08-26) 26 August 1977 (age 47)
Solna, Sweden
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
Strokesbutterfly, freestyle
ClubTäby Sim
College teamNebraska Cornhuskers (1997–1999)
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 2 1
World Championships (LC) 2 5 1
World Championships (SC) 10 3 4
European Championships (LC) 10 7 4
European Championships (SC) 15 6 1
Total 37 23 11
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney[1] 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney 4×100 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2007 Melbourne[2] 50 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place 2011 Shanghai 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2001 Fukuoka 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2001 Fukuoka 50 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place 2007 Melbourne 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2009 Rome 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2011 Shanghai 50 m butterfly
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Montréal[3] 50 m butterfly
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2000 Athens[4] 50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2000 Athens 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2000 Athens 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2000 Athens 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2002 Moscow[5] 50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2002 Moscow 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2002 Moscow 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2002 Moscow 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2006 Shanghai[6] 50 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place 2010 Dubai 50 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place 2004 Indianapolis[7] 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2006 Shanghai 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2010 Dubai 100 m butterfly
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Gothenburg 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 1999 Hong Kong 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Indianapolis 50 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Shanghai 4×100 m freestyle
European Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 1999 Istanbul 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2000 Helsinki 50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2000 Helsinki 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2000 Helsinki 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2000 Helsinki 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2002 Berlin 50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2004 Madrid 50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2006 Budapest 50 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place 2010 Budapest 50 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place 2010 Budapest 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 1997 Seville 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 1999 Istanbul 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 1999 Istanbul 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2002 Berlin 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2002 Berlin 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2006 Budapest 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2010 Budapest 4x100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Seville 50 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Eindhoven 50 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Budapest 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Budapest 100 m butterfly
European Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 1999 Lisbon 50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 1999 Lisbon 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 1999 Lisbon 4x50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 1999 Lisbon 4x50 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2000 Valencia 50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2000 Valencia 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2000 Valencia 4x50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2000 Valencia 4x50 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2001 Antwerp 50 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place 2001 Antwerp 4x50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2001 Antwerp 4x50 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2002 Riesa 4x50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2002 Riesa 4x50 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2006 Helsinki 50 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place 2006 Helsinki 4x50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 1998 Sheffield 50 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 1998 Sheffield 4x50 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2001 Antwerp 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2005 Trieste 4x50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2006 Helsinki 50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2006 Helsinki 4x50 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Trieste 4x50 m medley

Malin Therese Alshammar (born 26 August 1977) is a Swedish swimmer who has won three Olympic medals, 25 World Championship medals, and 43 European Championship medals. She is a specialist in short distances races in freestyle and butterfly. She is coached by former Swedish swimmer Johan Wallberg. She is the first female swimmer and the third overall (after Lars Frölander and Derya Büyükuncu) to participate in six Olympic Games.[8]

Biography

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Alshammar was born in Solna in 1977, daughter of 7th placed Olympic breaststroke swimmer Britt-Marie Smedh[9] and Krister Alshammar.[10] She started swimming on the team of Sundbybergs IK.

At the beginning of her career she was a backstroke swimmer and in 1991, the year Alshammar turned 14, she won her first national short course title on 50 m backstroke at the 1991 Swedish Short Course Swimming Championships.[11] The year after, when she was 14 years old, she won her first national long course senior title, 100 m backstroke at the 1992 Swedish Swimming Championships representing Järfälla SS.[12]

Alshammar was a part of the Swedish team in 1993 European Championships in Sheffield, finishing fourth in the 100 m backstroke final, and in the inaugural World Short Course Championships in Palma de Mallorca. In Palma de Mallorca she took a ninth place in the individual 100 m backstroke, swum the prelims in the silver medal winning 4×100 m freestyle team and came fourth in the 4×100 m medley alongside breaststroker Hanna Jaltner, butterfly swimmer Ellenor Svensson and Linda Olofsson on the freestyle leg.

She first appeared on the international scene after the 1994 World Aquatics Championships where she made the semifinals in the 100 m backstroke. In the 1996 Olympics, she participated in this event and reached the semifinals.

In 1997, Alshammar moved to the United States and Lincoln, Nebraska to study at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and swim for the Nebraska Cornhuskers swimming and diving team together with Destiny Laurén under the coach Cal Bentz. The time in the United States resulted in one individual 1999 Big 12 Conference Women's Swimming and Diving Championships gold medal, on the 100 yard freestyle. At the NCAA Division 1 Women's Swimming and Diving Championships, she won a silver medal in the 4×200 yard relay team 1998 and fourth in 50 yard freestyle and 100 yard freestyle 1999. Under her first year she was a part of the Nebraska Cornhuskers Big 12 Conference Women's Swimming and Diving Championships team. At a personal level she studied advertising.[13]

Alshammar also trained at The Race Club, a swimming club founded by Olympic Swimmers Gary Hall Jr. and his father, Gary Hall Sr. The Race Club, originally known as "The World Team," was designed to serve as a training group for elite swimmers across the world in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. To be able to train with the Race Club, one must either have been ranked in the top 20 in the world the past 3 calendar years or top 3 in their nation in the past year. The Race Club included well-known swimmers as Roland Mark Schoeman, Mark Foster, Ryk Neethling, Ricky Busquet.[14]

Alshammar won her first international medal, a bronze in the 50 m freestyle, at the 1997 European Championships. She developed this stroke into her speciality and won the silver at the 1999 European Championships. She broke through to the top ranks at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she won silver medals in the 50 m and 100 m freestyle, both times vanquished by Inge de Bruijn, and a bronze medal with the Swedish relay team.

Since Sydney, she has been a favourite at major international events over short distances. At the World Championships in 2001 she won two silver medals, this time in the 50 m freestyle and 50 m butterfly. In the 2002 European Championships in Berlin she won the 50 m freestyle.

In 2003, she let up to focus on the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. In her only start in the 50 m, she barely missed a medal, coming fourth in the 50 m freestyle. In the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, she won a bronze medal in the 50 m butterfly, and took the gold on the same distance at World Championships in Shanghai 2011. By winning three individual events at the 2006 Swedish Short Course Swimming Championships in Uppsala, she took her 73rd gold medal and became the Swedish swimmer with the most individual gold medals on the Swedish Championships, passing Anders Holmertz with one. She took her first gold medal in 1991.

On 17 March 2009, at the Australian Swimming Titles, she broke her own world record in the 50-meter butterfly with a time of 25.44. She was later disqualified by Swimming Australia for wearing two swimsuits. FINA, swimming's governing body, had ratified a new rule only 17 days previously that swimmers can only wear one suit. Alshammar initially appealed the disqualification but withdrew the appeal when the new rule was explained to her.[15]

On 31 July 2011 she won the gold medal at 50 meter freestyle at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships, making her the oldest woman to win an individual gold medal at the long-course world championships. The day before, she had already won the silver medal in the 50 meter butterfly.

During the London Summer Olympics Alshammar participated in the 50 m freestyle, where she placed 6th.[16]

In June 2016 she became the first female swimmer and the third overall (after Lars Frölander and Derya Büyükuncu) to participate in six Olympic Games.[8] At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50 m freestyle event. She placed 15th in the semifinals and did not advance to the final.[17]

Alshammar was the flag bearer for Sweden at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Personal life

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Alshammar is in a relationship with her coach Johan Wallberg. In June 2013 they became parents of a son.[18] She participated in Let's Dance 2018, broadcast on TV4.

She grew up in Duvbo, a part of Sundbyberg Municipality.

Awards

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Personal bests

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Long course (50 m)

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Event Time


Date Meet Location Ref
50 m freestyle 23.88 2 Aug 2009 World Championships Rome, Italy [19]
100 m freestyle 53.58 (r) 26 Jul 2009 World Championships Rome, Italy [20]
50 m backstroke 29.22 7 May 2005 Trofeu Brasil Belo Horizonte, Brazil
100 m backstroke 1.01.61 20 Jan 2012 Western Australia State Open Championships 2012 Australia [21]
50 m butterfly 25.07 (sf) 31 Jul 2009 World Championships Rome, Italy [22]
100 m butterfly 57.55 12 Aug 2010 2010 European Championships Budapest, Hungary
Legend: WRWorld record; EREuropean record; NRSwedish record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Short course (25 m)

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Event Time


Date Meet Location Ref
50 m freestyle 23.27 NR 21 Nov 2009 World Cup Singapore
100 m freestyle 52.17 17 Mar 2000 World SC Championships Athens, Greece [23]
50 m backstroke 26.62 NR 29 Nov 2009 Swedish SC Championships Gothenburg, Sweden [24]
100 m backstroke 57.43 (r) 26 Nov 2009 Swedish SC Championships Gothenburg, Sweden [25]
50 m butterfly 24.38 WR 22 Nov 2009 World Cup Singapore, Singapore [26]
100 m butterfly 55.53 6 Nov 2010 World Cup Stockholm, Sweden
100 m individual medley 58.07 NR 26 Nov 2009 Swedish SC Championships Gothenburg, Sweden [27]
Legend: WRWorld record; EREuropean record; NRSwedish record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Clubs

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "ESPN Sydney Swimming". Retrieved 14 March 2009.
  2. ^ "12th FINA World Championships". Archived from the original on 6 June 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2007.
  3. ^ "Montreal 2005 Results". Archived from the original on 28 January 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2007.
  4. ^ "5th FINA World Swimming Championships". Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
  5. ^ "2002 World Championships – Short Course Swim Rankings results". Archived from the original on 8 September 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
  6. ^ "8th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)". Archived from the original on 8 October 2007. Retrieved 10 June 2007.
  7. ^ "7th FINA World Championships – 25m Indianapolis 2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
  8. ^ a b Karl Ortegon (24 June 2016). "Therese Alshammar qualifies for historic sixth olympics". swimswam.
  9. ^ "CSE Error". Archived from the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2008.
  10. ^ "Therese Alshammar - www.sok.se". Archived from the original on 9 October 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.
  11. ^ "Swedish Medalists". scmsom.se.
  12. ^ "Swedish Medalists". scmsom.se.
  13. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)/pdf3/91928.pdf?SPSID=37313&SPID=31&DB_OEM_ID=100
  14. ^ "The World Team". The Race Club.
  15. ^ Alshammer Disqualified Yahoo Sports, 17 March 2009 Archived 23 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ "Therèse Alshammar". sports-reference. Archived from the original on 22 June 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  17. ^ "Rio 2016". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  18. ^ http://hd.se/sport/2013/06/04/alshammar-har-blivit-mamma HD Retrieved 26 June 2013
  19. ^ "Results Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). OmegaTiming. 2 August 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  20. ^ "Results Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay" (PDF). OmegaTiming. 26 July 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  21. ^ "Octoopen.se - Simsport i Sverige".
  22. ^ "Results Women's 50m Butterfly" (PDF). OmegaTiming. 31 July 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  23. ^ "Results Women's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). OmegaTiming. 17 March 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  24. ^ "Swedish Short Course Championships: Therese Alshammar Closes Meet With National Record". SwimmingWorldMagazine.com. 29 November 2000. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
  25. ^ "Octoopen.se - Simsport i Sverige".
  26. ^ "Octoopen.se - Simsport i Sverige".
  27. ^ "Octoopen.se - Simsport i Sverige".
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Records
Preceded by Women's 100 metre freestyle
world record holder (short course)

10 December 1999 – 8 August 2005
Succeeded by
Preceded by

Le Jingyi
Women's 50 metre freestyle
world record holder (short course)

11 December 1999 – 17 November 2007
Succeeded by
Preceded by Women's 50 metre butterfly
world record holder (long course)

13 June 2007 – 19 April 2009
31 July 2009 – 5 July 2014
Succeeded by
Preceded by Women's 50 metre butterfly
world record holder (short course)

12 November 2008 – 15 November 2008
17 October 2009 – present
Succeeded by
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Anna-Karin Kammerling
Female World Cup Overall Winner
2005/2006 – 2007
Succeeded by
Preceded by Female World Cup Overall Winner
2010–2011
Succeeded by
Awards
Preceded by
First award
FINA Swimmer of the Year
2010
Succeeded by
Preceded by Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal
2011
Succeeded by
Olympic Games
Preceded by Flagbearer for  Sweden
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Succeeded by