Louise Jöhncke (born 31 July 1976) is a former

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from

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, who competed for her native country at two consequentive

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, starting in

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

. Her biggest successes came on short course (25 m); she won the world title as a member of the Swedish relay Team in the 4 × 200 m freestyle at the

1999 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) The 4th FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) was an international swimming meet organized by FINA, held 1–4 April 1999 at the Hong Kong Coliseum Hong Kong Coliseum (), commonly and informally known as the Hung Hom Coliseum (, ) is a mu ...

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. A year later, at

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, she captured the title in the 4 × 100 m freestyle.

References

External links

Profile on FINA site
1976 births Living people Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Sweden Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Swimmers from Stockholm Olympic bronze medalists in swimming Swedish female freestyle swimmers Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Järfälla SS swimmers Väsby SS swimmers Spårvägens SF swimmers Södertörns SS swimmers Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{Sweden-swimming-bio-stub