Louise Mai Jansen

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Louise Mai Jansen
Personal information
Full nameLouise Mai Jansen
National team 
Gladsaxe, Denmark
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, medley
ClubAllerød SK

Louise Mai Jansen (born April 14, 1984) is a Danish former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events.

Budapest, Hungary with a time of 2:17.37, just eight seconds off the record set by Julie Hjorth-Hansen in 2009.[2] Jansen is an economics graduate, majoring in mathematics at Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen
.

Jansen made her first Danish team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing thirty-seventh in the 200 m freestyle,[3][4] and thirtieth in the 200 m individual medley with respective times of 2:06.06 and 2:27.08.[5][6]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Jansen extended her swimming program to two events: 200-metre freestyle and 4×200-metre freestyle relay. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:02.20 (200 m freestyle) from the Danish Open in Copenhagen.[7] In the 200 m freestyle, Jansen raced to fourth place and thirty-fourth overall on the same heat as Athens by exactly one second ahead of Singapore's Lynette Lim in 2:01.30.[8] She also teamed up with Hjorth-Hansen, Micha Østergaard, and Lotte Friis in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. Swimming the third leg, Jansen recorded a split of 2:00.31, and the Danish team finished the preliminary heats in tenth overall with a Danish record of 8:00.81.[9]

At the

Rome, Italy, Jansen helped her Danish team (Hjorth-Hansen, Ostergaard, and Friis) to dip under an eight-minute barrier and broke a new record of 7:55.56 in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, but finished only in twelfth place overall from the preliminary heats.[10]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Julie Hjorth-Hansen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  2. Swimming World Magazine. 12 August 2010. Archived from the original
    on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  3. Athens 2004. BBC Sport
    . 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original
    on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  5. Athens 2004. BBC Sport
    . 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original
    on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  7. Swimming World Magazine
    . p. 53. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  8. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original
    on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  9. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original
    on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  10. ^ "2009 FINA World Championships (Rome, Italy) – Women's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heats" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 6 April 2013.

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