Jördis Steinegger
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 Austria
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8 February 1983 Graz, Austria |
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| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, medley | |||||||||||||||
| Club | ASV Linz | |||||||||||||||
| Coach | Marco Wolf | |||||||||||||||
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Jördis Steinegger (born February 8, 1983 in Graz) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events. She is a two-time Olympian, a nine-time long and short course Austrian record holder, and a member of the Linz Amateur Swimming Club (German: Amateurschwimmverein Linz) in Linz, under her personal coach Marco Wolf.
Since she started her sporting career at age fifteen, Steinegger is considered one of Austria's top female swimmers. She achieved more than a hundred titles at the national championships, and has broken numerous records in freestyle (200, 400, 800, and 1500 m), and medley (100, 200, and 400 m). Steinegger made her international debut at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, where she earned a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle, posting her time at 4:11.88.
Steinegger guaranteed her spot on the Austrian team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by obtaining a B-standard entry time of 1:59.17 (200 m freestyle) from the Austrian Swimming Championships in Schwechat. On the first day of the competition, Steinegger challenged seven other swimmers in the second heat of the women's 400 m individual medley, including Norway's Sara Nordenstam, who eventually won a bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke. She finished the race in fourth place and twenty-sixth overall, by nineteen hundredths of a second (0.19) behind 18-year-old Chinese swimmer Liu Jing, with a time of 4:45.15. The following morning, Steinegger finished fifth and sixteenth overall, on the fourth heat of the women's 400 m freestyle, with a time of 4:09.72, approximately five seconds behind Olympic champions Camelia Potec of Romania and Laure Manaudou of France.
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