Micha Østergaard

Micha Østergaard
Personal information
Full name Micha Kathrine Østergaard Jensen
Nationality  Denmark
Born 31 January 1987
Esbjerg, Denmark
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight 59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Club West Swim Esbjerg

Micha Kathrine Østergaard Jensen (born 31 January 1987 in Esbjerg) is a Danish swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] She is a two-time national and Nordic record holder in the butterfly (50, 100, and 200 m).

Ostergaard qualified for three swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing FINA A-standard entry times of 58.87 (100 m butterfly) and 2:08.72 (200 m butterfly) from the Danish Open Championships in Gladsaxe.[2][3] In her first event, 100 m butterfly, Ostergaard rounded out the sixth heat in last place and twenty-eighth overall by 0.07 of a second behind Slovak swimmer and five-time Olympian Martina Moravcová, dipping under a minute barrier at 59.10.[4] In the 200 m butterfly, Ostergaard broke a Danish record of 2:07.77 in the evening preliminaries to take the eighth spot for the semifinals.[5][6] Followed by the next morning's session, Ostergaard failed to qualify for the final, as she finished eleventh overall in the semifinal run with a time of 2:09.29.[7] She also teamed up with Louise Mai Jansen, Julie Hjorth-Hansen, and Lotte Friis in the 4×200 m freestyle relay. Swimming the second leg, Ostergaard recorded a split of 2:01.67, and the Danish team finished the preliminary heats in tenth overall with a new national record of 8:00.81.[8]

At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, Ostergaard broke two new Danish records. In the 200 m butterfly, she lowered her record time to 2:07.44 in the semifinals, but matched her position from previous year's Olympics.[9] She also helped her Danish team (Jansen, Hjorth-Hansen, and Friis) to dip under an 8-minute barrier and broke a new record of 7:55.56 in the 4×200 m freestyle relay, but finished in twelfth overall from the preliminary heats.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Micha Østergaard". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Butterfly" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 73. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Butterfly" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 76. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Women's 100m Butterfly Heat 6". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "Women's 200m Butterfly Heat 4". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  6. ↑ Lohn, John (12 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: China's Liu Zige Tops 200 Fly Prelims". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Women's 200m Butterfly Semifinal 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  8. ↑ "Women's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  9. ↑ "2009 FINA World Championships (Rome, Italy) – Women's 200m Butterfly Semifinals" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  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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