Mie Nielsen

Mie Ø. Nielsen
Personal information
Full name Mie Østergaard Nielsen
National team  Denmark
Born (1996-09-25) 25 September 1996
Aalborg, Denmark
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) (2012)[1]
Weight 67 kg (148 lb) (2012)[1]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
Club Aalborg Swimming Club[1]
Coach Eyleifur Jóhannesson

Mie Østergaard Nielsen (born 25 September 1996) is a Danish competitive swimmer who holds the Danish record in several backstroke events.

Career

Nielsen won her first international senior medals at the 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships, where she won four medals and was named newcomer of the championship.[2]

She made her Olympics debut at the 2012 games where she was taking part in the 100 and 200 m backstroke and the 4×100 m relays in freestyle and medley.[1]

Nielsen missed the 2013 World Aquatics Championships with a knee injury, but won the bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia.[3]

At the 2016 European Aquatics Championships in London, she successfully defended her title in the 100 m backstroke, breaking the Championships record and national record with a time of 58.73.[3]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won a bronze medal as a part of the 4x100 m medley relay alongside Rikke Møller Pedersen, Jeanette Ottesen and Pernille Blume. Here they also broke the European record with a time of 3:55.01.

Personal life

She is the daughter of Benny Nielsen, who won silver in the 200 m butterfly at the 1988 Summer Olympics and Lone Jensen, who participated in the 1978 World Aquatics Championships.[1]

References


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