Rikke Møller Pedersen

Rikke Møller Pedersen is a retired Danish competitive swimmer, born on 9 January 1989 in Odense, who specialised in breaststroke and represented the club Svømmeklubben Frem. She swam at two Olympic Games for Denmark, in 2012 in the 100 metre breaststroke, the 200 metre breaststroke, where she finished fourth, and the medley relay, and again in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metre medley relay as part of the Danish team, which was her only Olympic medal. Outside the Olympics she won European and world short course titles in the 200 metre breaststroke and set several European short course records, and she held the long course world record in that event from 2013 until 2021. She announced her retirement in January 2019.