Michael Söderlund
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Per Michael Söderlund | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Karlskrona, Blekinge | March 30, 1962||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle and backstroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Karlskrona SS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Berkeley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Michael Söderlund (born March 30, 1962 in Karlskrona, Blekinge) is a former swimmer from Sweden who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, between 1980 to 1988. In the 1984 Summer Olympics, he was a part of the 4×100 m freestyle relay team, swimming one leg in the prelims. His best individual result in the Olympics was a 6th place on 200 m backstroke on the time of 2:04.10, which was a Swedish record for 27 years. Soderlund was on the 400-meter freestyle relay team that captured the bronze medal in the ’84 Olympiad at Los Angeles.
Personal bests
Long course (50 m)
Event | Time | Date | Meet | Location | Ref | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
200 m freestyle | 1:51.44 | 24 Mar 1988 | US Summer Nationals | Orlando, FL, United States | ||
200 m backstroke | 2:04.10 | 26 Jul 1980 | Olympic Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | ||
Legend: WR – World record; ER – European record; NR – Swedish record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial
Clubs
- Karlskrona SS
References
|
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, March 16, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.