Pernille flower

Pernille flower
Pernille Blume (2015)
Personal information
Surname:	Pernille flower
Nation:	Denmark
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Society:	Sigma Swim Birkerød
Birthday:	May 14, 1994
Place of birth:	Bagsværd
Size:	171 cm
Weight:	58 kg
Medal table

Pernille Blume (born May 14, 1994 in Bagsværd , Gladsaxe municipality ) is a Danish freestyle swimmer . Her special routes are 50, 100 and 200 m freestyle and she appears internationally, especially in relay competitions. In 2016 she became Olympic champion in the individual competition over 50 meters freestyle .

Career

Pernille Blume took part in the short course world championships for the first time in 2010 , where she was eliminated in the preliminaries in her three starts over 50, 100 and 200 m freestyle. A year later at the 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai , she also did not make it past the prelims in the 100 and 200 m freestyle, but was also used in the relays: She was eighth in the 4 × 100 m freestyle and missed that in the 4 × 100 m individual medley Danish quartet in 9th place just about the final. At the end of 2011, Blume started at the European Short Course Championships in Szczecin , where she reached her first international finals, finishing 5th over 100 m and 8th place over 50 m freestyle. With the relay over 4 × 50 m freestyle she won silver and over 4 × 50 m individual medley gold.

2012 Pernille was flower part of the Danish team for the Olympic Games in London . In her individual starts over 50 m freestyle , 100 m freestyle and 200 m freestyle , she was eliminated in the preliminary run. She reached the finals with the two 4 × 100 m relays and, with new Danish national records, took 6th place over 4 × 100 m freestyle and 7th place over 4 × 100 m medley . At the European Short Course Championships in 2012 in Chartres , she reached the final over 100 m freestyle, finishing sixth; She also became European champion in 4 × 50 m freestyle and 4 × 50 m medley. She won two further medals at the short course world championships in Istanbul with gold in the European record in 4 × 100 m medley and bronze in 4 × 100 m freestyle.

At the 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona , Blume was eliminated in the 50 and 100 m freestyle in the semi-finals. At the end of the year, she achieved ninth place in the European Short Course Championships in front of her home crowd in Herning in the 50 and 100 m freestyle as well as gold in a world record time in 4 × 50 m freestyle and another gold in 4 × 50 m individual medley after the originally victorious team from Russia in 2014 Victory was revoked because of doping by Julija Eefimova . In 2014 she started at the European Championships in Berlin and achieved fourth place in the 100 m freestyle, her best individual placement so far at a major international event. She also became European champion in a new European record time over 4 × 100 m medley; As the final swimmer in the 4 × 100 m freestyle, she initially hit the fastest time, but the Danish relay team was disqualified due to an alternating error. In December she won two more gold medals at the short course World Cup in Doha : in a new world record time over 4 × 50 m individualities and over 4 × 100 m individualities. With the freestyle relay over 4 × 50 m and 4 × 100 m, she was third and fourth. In her individual starts over 50 and 100 m freestyle, she was eliminated in the semifinals.

At the 2015 World Championships , Pernille Blume did not get beyond the semi-finals in the 50 and 100 m freestyle. She finished fifth in the 4 × 100 m relay. In 2016 she also reached fifth place with the relay over 4 × 100 m freestyle at the European Championships in London; in the individual over this distance she did not get beyond the prerun. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Blume was Olympic champion in the 50 m freestyle in 24.07 s and won a bronze medal in the individual relay relay. Then she was voted Sportswoman of the Year in Denmark .

Best times and records

Personal bests
discipline	Long track			Short course
50 m freestyle	00: 24.07 min	2016	Rio de Janeiro	00: 24.35 min	December 6, 2014	Doha
100 m freestyle	00: 53.69 min	March 29, 2014	Brønshøj	00: 52.90 min	4th December 2014	Doha
200 m freestyle	01: 59.71 min	March 24, 2012	Brønshøj	01: 57.14 min	May 24, 2014	Mountains
World record
4 × 50 m layered short course (with Mie Østergaard Nielsen , Rikke Møller Pedersen and Jeanette Ottesen )				01: 44.04 min	5th December 2014	Doha
European record
4 × 100 m layered short course (with Mie Østergaard Nielsen , Rikke Møller Pedersen and Jeanette Ottesen )				03: 49.87 min	December 14, 2012	Istanbul
Status: July 24, 2016

Web links

• Pernille Blume in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Pernille Blume in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Results at the-sports.org (English)
• Website of Pernille Blume (Danish)