Stefan Nystrand
![]() Stefan Nystrand (Sweden, lane 4), Amaury Leveaux (France, lane 3) and Cullen Jones (USA, lane 2) in the men's 50m freestyle semifinals. | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Stefan Nystrand |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Haninge, Sweden | 20 October 1981
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | SK Neptun |
Medal record |
Stefan Nystrand (born 20 October 1981) is a freestyle swimmer from Sweden.
Biography
[edit]His father Sture Nystrand is a Swede and his mother Smiljana Kokeza is a Croat from Split.[5]
Nystrand, a short course (25 m) specialist, has won five individual medals in the FINA Short Course World Championships, and captured his first medal (silver) in long course (50 m) in the 100 m freestyle at the 2006 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, behind Filippo Magnini of Italy. The following year he won a bronze medal at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne at the 50 m freestyle, with a new national record of 21.97.
After breaking the 48 second barrier in the 100 m freestyle long course (he was only the second person to do so after then world record holder Pieter van den Hoogenband) in Paris, Nystrand revealed that he averages less than 3,000 meters a practice, a minuscule amount compared to other professional swimmers, and never more than 20,000 meters a week. He is also noted for having an atypical front crawl technique in which his arms do not bend during the recovery phase. Normally, a swimmer will bend the arm at the elbow while above water to improve their line in the water.
Nystrand has also competed at the Olympic Games, in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. His best placing at the Games is the fourth place he got at the 50 metre freestyle event, 0.06 seconds behind South African medallist Roland Schoeman. At the Berlin round of the 2007 FINA World Cup, Nystrand broke the 100 m freestyle and 50 m freestyle (both short course) world records.
Personal bests
[edit]Long course (50 m)
[edit]Event | Time |
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Date | Meet | Location | Ref |
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50 m freestyle | 21.45 | NR (sf) | 31 Jul 2009 | World Championships | Rome, Italy | [6] |
100 m freestyle | 47.37 | NR | 30 Jul 2009 | World Championships | Rome, Italy | [7] |
50 m breaststroke | 28.66 | (sf) | 13 May 2004 | European LC Championships | Madrid, Spain |
Records not set in finals: h – heat;
Short course (25 m)
[edit]Event | Time |
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Date | Meet | Location | Ref |
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50 m freestyle | 20.70 | NR | 15 Nov 2009 | World Cup | Berlin, Germany | [8] |
100 m freestyle | 45.54 | NR | 10 Nov 2009 | World Cup | Stockholm, Sweden | [9] |
50 m breaststroke | 26.70 | 28 Nov 2009 | Swedish SC Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | ||
50 m butterfly | 23.75 | (h) | 25 Oct 2008 | World Cup | Sydney, Australia | |
100 m individual medley | 53.97 | NR | 9 Apr 2006 | World SC Championships | Shanghai, China |
Records not set in finals: h – heat;
Clubs
[edit]- Södertörns SS (−2006)
- SK Neptun (2006–2011)
- Spårvägens SF (2011–)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "2002 World Championships – Short Course Swim Rankings results". Archived from the original on 8 September 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
- ^ "7th FINA World Championships – 25m Indianapolis 2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
- ^ "5th FINA World Swimming Championships". Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
- ^ "Shanghai 2006 results". Archived from the original on 6 March 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
- ^ "Dva svjetska rekorda za obitelj Kokeza" (in Croatian). 21 November 2007. Archived from the original on 23 February 2008. Retrieved 13 April 2008.
- ^ "Results Men's 50m Freestyle Semi" (PDF). OmegaTiming. 30 July 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
- ^ "Results Men's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). OmegaTiming. 30 July 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
- ^ "Results Men's 50 m Freestyle" (PDF). Omega Timing. 15 November 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
- ^ "Results Men's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Omega Timing. 10 November 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
External links
[edit]- Stefan Nystrand at World Aquatics
- Stefan Nystrand at SwimRankings.net
- Stefan Nystrand at Olympedia
- Stefan Nystrand at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
- Swedish male breaststroke swimmers
- Swedish male butterfly swimmers
- Swedish male medley swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Sweden
- World record setters in swimming
- Swedish male freestyle swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Södertörns SS swimmers
- SK Neptun swimmers
- Spårvägens SF swimmers
- Swedish people of Croatian descent