Sarah Fredrika Sjostrom is a Swedish competitive swimmer, born August 17, 1993, who specializes in sprint freestyle and butterfly events. As of 2024 she holds 23 individual medals at long course World Championships, more than any other swimmer in history, and has won six Olympic medals across five consecutive Games from 2008 to 2024, including three golds, in the 100 meter butterfly, 100 meter freestyle and 50 meter freestyle. She is the first swimmer from any country to win a total of 28 medals at the LEN European Aquatics Championships, currently holds the long course world record in the 50 meter butterfly, and was the first Swedish woman to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming and the first swimmer to surpass 1,000 MVP points in the International Swimming League.
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Career HighlightWon six Olympic medals including three golds (100 m butterfly, 100 m freestyle, 50 m freestyle) 2 Classification
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How many Olympic medals has Sarah Sjöström won, and what were her results at the Paris Games?
Six Olympic medals (three gold, two silver, one bronze), including gold in the 50 and 100 metres freestyle in 2024.
Olympedia lists Sarah Sjöström with six Olympic medals: three gold, two silver and one bronze. At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris she won gold in both the 50 metres freestyle and the 100 metres freestyle. Earlier, at the 2016 Summer Olympics, she took bronze in the 100 metres freestyle and silver in the 200 metres freestyle.
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Sarah Fredrika Sjöström (Swedish: [ˈsɑ̂ːra ˈɧø̂ːstrœm]; born 17 August 1993) is a Swedish competitive swimmer specialising in the sprint freestyle and butterfly events.
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1. Wikipedia: Sarah Sjostrom
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Sarah Fredrika Sjöström (Swedish: [ˈsɑ̂ːra ˈɧø̂ːstrœm]; born 17 August 1993) is a Swedish competitive swimmer specialising in the sprint freestyle and butterfly events.
2. Sarah Sjostrom - Wikipedia
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born 17 August 1993
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August 17, 1993
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first Swedish woman to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming
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She has won six Olympic medals: three gold (100 metre butterfly, 100 metre freestyle and 50 metre freestyle)
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Sarah Fredrika Sjöström (Swedish: [ˈsɑ̂ːra ˈɧø̂ːstrœm]; born 17 August 1993) is a Swedish competitive swimmer specialising in the sprint freestyle and butterfly events.
Competed In: 2008 Summer Olympics, Article text (competition)
Sjöström earned a spot on the Swedish Swim Team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, where she finished 27th in the preliminary heats of the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 59.08 and 29th in the preliminary heats of the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 1:02.38, failing to advance to the semi-finals in both races.
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