enviornment has prolonged its extremely profitable relationship with Swedish famous person Sarah Sjöström, signing a brand new sponsorship settlement that may run by to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
The 23-year-old from Stockholm is the world’s undisputed 100m butterfly champion, presently holding the Olympic and World titles, together with the long- and short-course world information.
On seventh August, 2016 in Rio De Janeiro, Sarah turned the primary Swedish girl to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming, as she dominated the Olympic 100m butterfly last and broke her personal world report within the course of. It was the fifth time she set a brand new world mark within the occasion. Over the next 4 days she added the 200m freestyle silver and 100m freestyle bronze to her medal tally, turning into solely the second girl in historical past to win medals within the 100 butterfly and 100 & 200m freestyle on the identical Olympics.
“I’m actually proud of enviornment,” stated Sarah, “and there was no hesitation for me to proceed the nice relationship we’ve. With the ability to put on the world’s finest gear, and likewise be concerned on the innovative throughout its improvement, is clearly an enormous benefit, however to me being a part of the sector household and realizing that I’ve them in my nook is simply as essential. I hope the following 4 years are as enjoyable and profitable because the final 4.”
“Sarah is a dream model ambassador,” stated enviornment co-CEO Giuseppe Musciacchio. “She’s supremely gifted, skilled, devoted and hard-working, and is at all times smiling. As well as, she’s dedicated to creating a distinction by social programmes equivalent to the Swedish Childhood Most cancers Basis and Venture Playground. As one in every of enviornment’s standard-bearers, she’s regularly concerned in product improvement and promotion, and in reality proper now she’s doing a photograph shoot in Luxembourg with the brand new color ranges of the Carbon racing go well with vary. We’re trying ahead to strengthening our relationship and seeing her develop nonetheless extra within the subsequent 4 years.”
Having returned from a coaching camp in South Africa firstly of this yr, Sarah’s foremost focus in 2017 will probably be July’s World Championships in Budapest. She’s going to swim WC {qualifications} on the Swim Open Stockholm in April, the Swedish Championships in late June/early July in Borås, the Swedish Quick Course Championships in Jönköping in early November, after which shut out the yr with December’s European Quick Course Championships in Copenhagen.
Sarah Sjöström Profile
- Born 17 August 1993 in Stockholm, Sweden
- Coached by Johan Wahlberg on the Swedish Swimming Excellence Centre, Stockholm
- Olympic medals: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze (2016)
- World Championship medals: 4 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze (2015, 2013, 2009)
- European Championship medals: 10 gold, 6 silver, 3 bronze (2016, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008)
- First Swedish girl to win an Olympic gold medal in swimming
- Received her first worldwide gold medal on the age of 14 (2008 European Championships, 100m butterfly)
- First girl in historical past to swim 50m butterfly in below 25 seconds (LC) and 100m butterfly in below 55 seconds (SC)
- Presently world report holder in 100m butterfly (LC and SC), 50m butterfly (LC), 200m freestyle (SC)
- Ambassador for the Swedish Childhood Most cancers Basis and Venture Playground, a company that works with weak kids and provides them extra alternatives by sports activities, organized exercise and social actions.
- Hobbies: Images, climbing, & her Nice Danes, Nellie and Maximus
- Motto: The door to success is the one marked PUSH
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