Jeanette Ottesen (born 30 December 1987) is a Danish competitive

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who participated at the

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and

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. In total, she has won 50 international medals.

Records

She currently holds the Danish record in the following: Long course (50 m pool): 50 m butterfly, 100 m butterfly Short course (25 m pool): 50 m butterfly, 100 m butterfly, 50 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle

Career

Ottesen's won her first international title at the 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships in

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, Croatia in the 100 m butterfly. She has won two individual long course world titles; in 100 m freestyle in 2011 (shared with Aleksandra Gerasimenya from

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, and in the 50 m butterfly in 2013. In June 2015, two months before the

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, Russia, Ottesen and her boyfriend Marco Loughran were attacked in a road rage incident in Copenhagen, during which she broke her finger. She recovered in time and won two silver medals at the world championships. At the

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in Rio de Janeiro, she won a bronze medal as a part of the 4 × 100 m medley relay alongside Rikke Møller Pedersen, Mie Ø. Nielsen and

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. Here they also broke the European record with a time of 3:55.01. In 2020, Ottesen was part of the NY Breakers in the

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. She swims in the swimming club Kvik Kastrup and mainly concentrates on the short distances in freestyle and butterfly.

Personal life

On 13 August 2011 she married Bobby William Gray, whom she had been dating for 8 years. The couple separated in 2013 and got divorced in 2014. In February 2017 she got engaged to British swimmer Marco Loughran, whom she has been dating since 2014. On 30 June 2017 she announced, via her blog, that they are expecting their first child. The couple wed in a surprise ceremony, in Copenhagen, on 16 July 2017. In December 2022 she announced that she and Marco Loughran were getting divorced.

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ottesen, Jeanette 1987 births Living people Danish female freestyle swimmers Danish female butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers for Denmark Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming World record holders in swimming Olympic bronze medalists for Denmark Olympic bronze medalists in swimming Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Kongens Lyngby Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Swimmers from the Capital Region of Denmark 21st-century Danish sportswomen

Records

Career

Personal life

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