Rikke Møller Pedersen
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Pedersen at the 2012 European Short Course Championships in Chartres
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Born | Odense, Denmark |
9 January 1989 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 134 lb (61 kg)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Herning Svømmeklub / NTC[2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Shannon Rollason | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rikke Møller Pedersen (born 9 January 1989) is a Danish swimmer and is the current world record holder in the 200 m breaststroke (long course).
Career
In 2009 she won a gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the European Short Course Swimming Championships.[4]
In 2010 she won a Bronze Medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the World Short Course Swimming Championships, while she placed second in the 100 m breaststroke and third in the 200 m breaststroke at the European Aquatics Championships.[4]
At the 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships she achieved two gold medals, in the 4×50 m medley relay and in the 200 m breaststroke respectively, and a Silver Medal in the 100 m breaststroke .[4]
In 2012 she competed at the Summer Olympics for the first time.[4] At the 2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Chartres she placed first in the 100 m breaststroke and she set the European record with a time of 1:04.12.[5] In this edition of the European Short Course Championships she also won the 200 m breaststroke[6] and the 4×50 m medley relay events,[7] while she placed second in the 50 m breaststroke.[8] At the 2012 World Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul she won the 200 m breaststroke event with a winning time of 2:16.08, the new championship record.[9] At Istanbul 2012 she also placed third in the 100 m breaststroke[10] and first in the 4 × 100 m medley relay.[11]
At the 2013 Danish Open Championships she broke the European record in the 200 m breaststroke (long course) swimming in 2:20.53. The previous record belonged to Russian Yuliya Yefimova who had set a time of 2:20.92 at the 2012 London Olympics.[12]
At the 2013 World Aquatics Championships, Møller Pedersen broke Rebecca Soni's 200 m breaststroke world record in the semifinals with 2:19.11,[13] but she finished 2nd in the final behind Russian Yuliya Yefimova with a time of 2:20.08.[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rikke Pedersen's profile at the Olympic Games 2012 official site
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External links
- RikkeMoller.com – Official website of Rikke Møller Pedersen
- Rikke's swimming results at the-sports.org
Records | ||
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Preceded by | World Record Holder Women's 200 Breaststroke August 1, 2013 – present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
Preceded by | European Record Holder Women's 100 Breaststroke (25m) 25 October 2009 – 15 December 2012 |
Succeeded by Rūta Meilutytė |
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- 1989 births
- Living people
- Danish swimmers
- Female breaststroke swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Denmark
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- World record holders in swimming
- Sportspeople from Odense