Sara Nordenstam is a Norwegian swimmer, born on 28 February 1983 in Lycksele, Sweden, to Swedish parents. She lived in Sweden until she was ten, then moved to Oslo, and she has been a naturalised citizen of Norway since 2004. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she set a European record in the heats of the 200 metre breaststroke and then took the bronze medal in the final with a new European record of 2:23.02, becoming the first Norwegian woman to win an Olympic swimming medal. She has won 16 Norwegian championship medals and studied advertising and marketing in the United States.
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