Sarah Sjöström

About Sarah Sjöström

Sarah Fredrika Sjöström is a Swedish competitive swimmer specialized in the sprint freestyle and butterfly events.

Career Success:

• On 5 July 2014 she broke the world record in the 50 meter butterfly (long course) with a time of 24.43. The large margin of 0.64 seconds by which she broke the old record has been compared with Bob Beamon's 1968 long jump world record.On 22 March 2008, at the age of 14, she took the gold medal in women's 100 m butterfly at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.She was clocked for 58.44 seconds. In the semi-finals the day before, she set a new national record with 58.38 seconds, breaking Anna-Karin Kammerling's old one (58.71 seconds). At the Swedish championships in 2008 she swam at 58.55.
  
• On 26 July 2009 at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships Sjöström set a world record in the semifinals with a time of 56.44, surpassing Inge de Bruijn's nine-year-old record. On the next day, in the finals for the women's 100 m butterfly, she won the gold medal and improved her world record time to 56.06.
  
• At the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, she defended her 2008 gold medal by winning the women's 100 m butterfly stroke.(The European Aquatics Championships is a biennial event and hence did not take place in 2009.)
  
• At the 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Herning, Denmark Sjöström won four individual and two team medals.
  
• At the 2015 World Aquatics Championships she won five medals, including gold medals in the 50 m and 100 m butterfly events. In 2015 she was awarded the Victoria Scholarship.
  

Sarah Sjöström Achievements

Accomplishments:

Sjöström won the gold medal in 100 metre butterfly in the World Championship in Rome 2009 and set the world record. She also participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics and finished 27th in the 100 metre butterfly and 29th in the 100 metre backstroke. She also participated in Sweden's 4×100 metre medley relay team. They managed to reach the final, but in the final they were disqualified for an over-long false start.

Medal records:

World Championships (LC)

• Gold medal – 2009 World Aquatics Championships100 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2013 World Aquatics Championships100 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2015 World Aquatics Championships50 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2015 World Aquatics Championships100 m butterfly
  
• Silver medal – 2013 World Aquatics Championships100 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2015 World Aquatics Championships100 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2015 World Aquatics Championships4×100 m medley
  
• Bronze medal – 2015 World Aquatics Championships50 m freestyle
  

World Championships (SC)

• Gold medal – 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships 200 m freestyle
  
• Gold medal – 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships50 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships100 m butterfly
  
• Silver medal – 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships100 m freestyle
  

European Championships (LC)

• Gold medal – 2008 European Aquatics Championships100 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2010 European Aquatics Championships100 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2012 European Aquatics Championships100 m freestyle
  
• Gold medal – 2012 European Aquatics Championships50 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2014 European Aquatics Championships100 m freestyle
  
• Gold medal – 2014 European Aquatics Championships50 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2014 European Aquatics Championships4×100 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2010 European Aquatics Championships4×100 m medley
  
• Silver medal – 2012 European Aquatics Championships4×100 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2014 European Aquatics Championships50 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2014 European Aquatics Championships100 m butterfly
  
• Silver medal – 2014 European Aquatics Championships4×200 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2014 European Aquatics Championships4×100 m medley
  
• Bronze medal – 2010 European Aquatics Championships4×100 m freestyle
  

European Championships (SC)

• Gold medal – 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships50 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships100 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships100 m freestyle
  
• Gold medal – 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships50 m butterfly
  
• Gold medal – 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships100 m butterfly
  
• Silver medal – 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships4×50 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships4×50 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships4×50 m medley
  
• Silver medal – 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships50 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships100 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships4×50 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships50 m freestyle
  
• Silver medal – 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships4×50 m medley
  
• Bronze medal – 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships4×50 m medley