Jytte Hansen
Appearance
Hansen in 1948 | ||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Born | Odense, Denmark | 25 July 1932|||||||||||
Died | 26 November 2015 | (aged 83)|||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Club | Svømmeklubben Frem, Odense | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Jytte Solveig Hansen (25 July 1932 – 26 November 2015) was a Danish swimmer who won a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1954 European Aquatics Championships.[1] She competed in the same event at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics with the best achievement of fifth place in 1952.[2]
Biography
[edit]Hansen started swimming in a club in 1946. Already in 1948, she won the national championships in the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and reached the finals at the 1948 Olympics. In 1958, she married her coach, Jørgen Nielsen, and changed her last name. After retiring from competitions she worked for 37 years as a swimming coach.[3][4]
References
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jytte Hansen (swimmer).
- ^ Jytte HANSEN. les-sports.info
- ^ Jytte Hansen. sports-reference.com
- ^ Et liv med vand. fyens.dk (13 April 2008).
- ^ Jytte Hansen (1932–) Archived 8 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine. odense.dk
Categories:
- 1932 births
- 2015 deaths
- Danish female swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Female breaststroke swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Denmark
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Sportspeople from Odense
- 20th-century Danish sportswomen
- Danish swimming biography stubs