HANSSON Sophie

Date of Birth: 2 Aug 1998

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Youth Olympian

Place of residence : RALEIGH, NC

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 100m Breaststroke	6
	Women's 200m Breaststroke
	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 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Breaststroke - Heat 6	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Breaststroke Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Breaststroke Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Breaststroke - Heat 4	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Breaststroke Semifinal 1	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	100Breast	200Breast
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	H (1:08.67)	H (2:30.59)

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast	4x100Medley X
2014	Nanjing, CHN	5th (32.01)	SF (1:10.49)	H (4:03.09)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast	200Breast	4x100Medley W
2019	Gwangju, KOR	SF (31.12)	H (1:08.39)	H (2:29.97)	7th (3:58.39)
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (31.44)	-	H (2:28.81)	5th

European Championships

Year	Location	100Free	50Breast	100Breast	200Breast	4x100Free W	4x100Medley W
2020	Budapest, HUN	H (DNS)	5th (30.31)	1st (1:05.69)	SF (2:24.79)	5th (3:38.72)	4th (3:56.54)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	-	8th (31.23)	8th (1:07.67)	H (2:31.05)	-	H (4:03.94)

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast	200Breast	4x50Free W	4x50Medley W
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	SF (30.70)	H (1:07.00)	H (DNS)	H (1:42.11)	H (1:48.85)

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

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

Languages spoken:

English, Swedish

Helsingborgs Simsallskaps [SWE] / North Carolina State University Wolfpack [USA]

Braden Holloway [NC State]; Ulrika Sandmark [national], SWE

Sporting relatives:

Her older sister Louise has also represented Sweden in swimming including at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Her father is a coach at Helsingborgs Simsallskaps in Sweden. (SportsDeskOnline, 21 Feb 2020; hd.se, 30 Dec 2015)

She has been hampered by recurrent back injuries during her career. (sydsvenskan.se, 20 Jul 2019)

She took up swimming in 2003. (hssim.com, 2015)

US swimmer Michael Phelps. (hssim.com, 2015)

She was named 2019 Atlantic Coast Conference [ACC] Women's Freshman of the Year in the United States of America. (gopack.com, 18 May 2019)

General Interest

General
COLLEGE CAREER
She moved to the United States of America in 2018 to start her collegiate swimming career at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. "My dad was a swimmer when he was younger and he always told us [her and her sister] that if there is one thing that he regrets, it was not taking the chance to at least see if [swimming in the US] was at least something he wanted to do. So he said if you get the chance you should take it and at least see if it is for you guys." (fina.org, 26 Jul 2019)

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Legend

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

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