Rikke Møller Pedersen

Rikke Møller Pedersen (born 9 January 1989) is a Danish swimmer.

Career

Pedersen reached for the first time in October 2009 in Odense greater international attention when she min over 200 meters and in 01:04,59 min 100m breaststroke each swam a new short course European record in 02:18,52.

Already at the Short Course Championships in Rijeka in 2008 she had breast all distances reached the final and the 50m breast with the sixth place achieved their best result.

The record 200m breaststroke she could in a World Cup meeting in Berlin and then improve on their winning the European Championship title in 2009 in Istanbul 02:16,66 min. In the same competition, she reached the final of the 50m breaststroke, where he was seventh. The record for the 100 meters breaststroke improved Pedersen again in December 2009 in St. Petersburg by 16 hundredths of a second to 1:04,21 min.

In November 2012 Møller Pedersen improved at the Short Course European Championships 2012 in Chartres 100m breaststroke their own European record 1:04,12 min. Less than a month later, she could s beat it at the World Championships in Istanbul again with 1:03,52.

In March 2013, it improved in Copenhagen on the long course the European record over 200 meters to see 2:20,53 At the World Championships in Barcelona in 2013, it achieved via this route in the semifinals with 2:19,11 s indeed a new world record, had to but Julia Jefimowa beaten in the final. About 100 meters she finished fourth. During the subsequent World Cup competition in Berlin, she improved the still held by her own 200-meter European Short Course record 2:15,93 s

Records

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