HANSSON Louise

Date of Birth: 24 Nov 1996

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Birth Country:

Sweden

Place of residence : HELSINGBORG

Residence Country:

Sweden

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 100m Backstroke
	Women's 100m Butterfly	5
	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay SWE Sweden	6
	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay SWE Sweden	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly - Heat 5	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke - Heat 3	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Fly	200IndMed	4x100Free W	4x200Free	4x100Medley W
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	H (59.73)	H (2:15.66)	5th (3:35.90)	5th (7:50.26)	H (3:59.45)

World Championships - Individual Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly events

Year	Location	200Free	50Back	100Back	50Fly	100Fly
2019	Gwangju, KOR	-	H (29.12)	H (DNS)	SF (26.10)	7th (57.16)
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	-	-	H (26.55)	H (58.86)
2015	Kazan, RUS	H (1:59.34)	-	-	-	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	-	-	-	H (26.71)	H (1:00.11)

World Championships - Medley and Relay events

Year	Location	200IndMed	4x100Free W	4x100Free X	4x200Free	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	-	6th (3:36.33)	-	-	7th (3:58.39)	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	5th (3:33.94)	-	-	5th	H (DSQ)
2015	Kazan, RUS	H (2:14.49)	4th (3:35.71)	8th (3:27.09)	4th (7:50.24)	2nd (3:55.24)	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	-	4th (3:36.56)	-	-	H (4:02.83)	-

European Championships - Individual Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly events

Year	Location	100Free	200Free	100Back	50Fly	100Fly
2020	Budapest, HUN	-	-	6th (1:00.04)	SF (26.15)	3rd (57.56)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	H (55.81)	H (DNS)	-	SF (26.54)	6th (57.99)

European Championships - Medley and Relay events

Year	Location	4x100Free W	4x100Free X	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2020	Budapest, HUN	5th (3:38.72)	6th (3:27.30)	4th (3:56.54)	-
2018	Glasgow, GBR	H (3:43.17)	-	H (4:03.94)	8th (3:48.53)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Business Administration, Marketing - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Languages spoken:

English, German, Norwegian, Swedish

Loughborough University [ENG] / Helsingborgs SS [SWE]

Andi Manley [Loughborough University]; Ian Hulme [Loughborough University]

Sporting relatives:

Her younger sister Sophie has also represented Sweden in swimming, including at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Her father Lars-Olof has worked as a coach at Helsingborgs SS in Sweden. Her younger brother Gustaf has also swam at Helsingborgs SS. (SportsDeskOnline, 09 Dec 2018; usctrojans.com, 03 Dec 2016; dn.se, 15 Jan 2016; fina.org, 26 Jul 2019; collegeswimming.com, 01 Jan 2020)

She had shoulder pain during the months prior to 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (latimes.com, 14 Feb 2019)

In late-2014 she suffered from tonsillitis. (hd.se, 18 Nov 2014)

She began attending swimming classes in 2001. (hssim.com, 2016)

Her father was a swimmer and introduced her to swimming. "He wanted his kids to be able to swim all four strokes and we weren't allowed to quit swimming until we knew how to swim all four of them. At that point, we were all stuck, so me and my two siblings are all swimmers now." (fina.org, 26 Jul 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (usc.freshu.io, 06 Nov 2016)

Winning silver in the 4x100m medley relay at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russian Federation. (hssim.com, 24 May 2017)

Swedish swimmer Therese Alshammar. (hssim.com, 2016)

She goes silent 20 minutes before her race. "I always go in my little bubble before a race. It's like I can't really describe what's going on in my head because I don't even know. Before the race, I try to focus in on the race and what I need to do." (latimes.com, 14 Feb 2019; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 01 Mar 2019)

Philosophy:

"It does not matter what the conditions are or who is in the race. You always swim against yourself." (hd.se, 11 Jan 2016)

During her collegiate career at University of Southern California, she was named the 2020 Pac-12 Women's Swimmer of the Year and received the University of Southern California's 2020 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Medal for the greatest combination of scholarship, athletics and leadership. (usctrojans.com, 01 Aug 2020; 11 Jun 2020; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 24 Mar 2020)

General Interest

General
FURTHER STUDY
In September 2020 she started her master's degree in international business at Loughborough University in England. "As I wrap up my four years at University of Southern California [in May 2020], I'm so excited to start a new chapter and move to England. I have loved being able to combine academics and athletics, so I am super grateful to have the opportunity to continue my studies as well as compete at a high level at Loughborough University. I'm just happy to be able to do a master's. It's not possible in the US [to swim collegiately while doing a graduate degree], and in Sweden, there's really no schools where you can combine sport and school on any level after high school." (LinkedIn profile, 06 Mar 2021; aquainspiration.se, 26 Jan 2021; SwimSwam YouTube channel, 26 Oct 2020; swimswam.com, 22 Apr 2020)

RELATIONSHIP WITH SISTER
Her younger sister Sophie has also represented Sweden in swimming, including at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "We've always swam together. We're both lucky, she's a breaststroker and I do everything except for breaststroke, which is really nice because we actually don't compete against each other. Swimming in relays together is so much fun." (fina.org, 26 Jul 2019)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/louise.hansson.988
https://instagram.com/louisehanssson
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-hansson-b4a577178/
https://twitter.com/HanssonLouise
Athlete Website: https://www.louisehansson.se/

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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