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Full name
  
Mie Ostergaard Nielsen

Club
  
Height
  
1.84 m

Strokes
  
Role
  
Swimmer


Sport
  
Swimming

Name
  
Mie Nielsen

National team
  
Coach
  
Eyleifur Johannesson

Weight
  
67 kg

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Born
  
25 September 1996 (age 28) (
1996-09-25
)
Aalborg, Denmark

Parents
  
Lone Jensen Nielsen, Benny Nielsen

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

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Career

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

References

Mie Nielsen Wikipedia


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