Norwegian swimmer
Sindri Thor Jakobsson
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Born | (1991-09-24) September 24, 1991 (age 32) Iceland |
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Sport | Swimming |
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Sindri Thor Jakobsson (Icelandic: Sindri Þór Jakobsson; born 24 September 1991[1]) is a Norwegian swimmer of Icelandic origins. He specialises in the butterfly.
Career
Jakobsson is from Iceland, where he swam for Frjálsíþróttafélag ÍBV [is] (until 2012 called Ungmennafélagið Óðinn) in the Vestmannaeyjar,[2] later for Íþróttabandalag Reykjanesbæjar in Reykjanesbær.[3][4][5] In the mid-2000s he moved to Norway. After five years living in Bergen, where his club was SK Delfana [no],[6] he took Norwegian citizenship and renounced his Icelandic citizenship.[7][8] As of March 2016[update] he had transferred to Lambertseter Svømmeklubb [no] in Oslo.[9]
At an all-ages national championship meet in 2003, he won four events: the 100 metre and 200 metre butterfly, the 400 metre freestyle and the 200 metre medley.[2] At the Icelandic national championships in 2008 he swam the 200 metre butterfly in 2.07.75 and in the 50 metres equalled his personal best time, 0.26.66;[10][11][12] In the 2009 Norwegian championships he won the 1500 metre[13] and 400 metre butterfly.[4]
In April 2012 Jakobsson was one of two team-mates sharing a room with Alexander Dale Oen at a training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona, who discovered him dead in the bathroom;[14][15][16] both withdrew from swimming for several months.[17][18]
At the 2012 European Aquatics Championships he set a Norwegian record of 2.00.96 for the 200 metre butterfly, breaking his own previous record by 24 hundredths of a second.[19] At the 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships he set a Norwegian record of 52.34 seconds for the 100 metre butterfly, breaking his own previous record of 53.29 seconds;[20] he failed by three hundredths of a second to equal Aleksander Hetland's Norwegian record of 23.47 seconds for the 50 metre butterfly.[21] At the 2014 European Aquatics Championships, for which he was selected despite not having technically qualified,[22] he again broke his own previous Norwegian record for the 200 metre butterfly, with a time of 1.59.80.[23][24] At the 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships he broke his own Norwegian record for the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 51.99 seconds,[25] and broke it again with 51.77 seconds in the semi-finals.[26] He also set a new Norwegian record in the 200 metre medley, 1.56.15.[27] In 2016 he won 13 gold medals, seven individual, at the Norwegian Short Course Championships,[9] and again set a new record for the 200 metre butterfly, 1.58.85, at the Bergen Swim Festival.[28][29]
Jakobsson set a Norwegian senior record of 1.58.93 in the 200 metre butterfly at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships,[30][31] but did not qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. In October 2016 he announced his retirement on Facebook.[32]
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