Jeanette Ottesen (born 30 December 1987) is a Danish competitive
swimmer who participated at the
2004,
2008
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,
2012
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,
2016
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and
2020 Summer Olympics
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. In total she has won 50 international medals.
Records
She currently holds the
Danish record in the following:
Long course (50 m pool): 50 m butterfly, 100 m butterfly
Short course (25 m pool): 50 m butterfly, 100 m butterfly, 50 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle
Career
Ottesen's won her first international title at the
2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships
The European Short Course Swimming Championships 2008 took place in Rijeka, Croatia from Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 December 2008.
Medal table
Medal summary
Legend:
* WR = World record
* ER = European record
* CR = Championships record
Men's e ...
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
Aliaksandra Viktarauna Herasimenia ( be, Аляксандра Віктараўна Герасіменя russian: Алекса́ндра Ви́кторовна Герасиме́ня; Łacinka: Aliaksandra Viktaraŭna Hierasimienia / Aleksandra ...
from
Belarus
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, and in the
50 m butterfly in 2013.
In June 2015, two months before the
2015 World Aquatics Championships
The 16th FINA World Championships (russian: Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia hosted this event for the first time. T ...
in
Kazan
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, 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.
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
Rikke Møller Pedersen (born 9 January 1989) is a Danish competitive swimmer specialising in breaststroke and from 2013 to 2021 world record holder in the 200 m breaststroke (2:19.11). ,
Mie Ø. Nielsen and
Pernille Blume
Pernille Blume (born 14 May 1994) is a former Danish swimmer specializing in sprint freestyle events. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she was the gold medalist in the women's 50 metre freestyle and won a br ...
. 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
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.
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. The couple separated in 2013 and got divorced in 2014.
In February 2017 she got engaged to British swimmer
Marco Loughran, whom she has been dating since 2014. On 30 June 2017 she announced, via her blog, that they are expecting their first child. The couple wed in a surprise ceremony, in Copenhagen, on 16 July 2017.
See also
*
Danish records in swimming
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ottesen, Jeanette
1987 births
Living people
Danish female freestyle swimmers
Danish female butterfly swimmers
Olympic swimmers of Denmark
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
World record holders in swimming
Olympic bronze medalists for Denmark
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
People from Kongens Lyngby
Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from the Capital Region of Denmark