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Denmark’s Blomsterberg Enters World Rankings With Lifetime Best 200 Breaststroke

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By Retta Race on SwimSwam

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2023 DANISH JUNIOR/SENIOR MEET

  • March 3rd – March 5th
  • Aarhus, Denmark
  • LCM (50m)
  • Results

Thea Blomsterberg of Denmark raced earlier this month at a domestic meet where the 21-year-old put up a lifetime best in the women’s 200m breaststroke.

Blomsterberg stopped the clock in a speedy result of 2:24.47 to grab the gold, splitting 1:10.76/1:13.71 in the process.

Entering the meet, Blomsterberg’s career-quickest rested at the 2:25.44 she logged in the semi-final of the event at the 2022 European Championships. There in Rome, the Dane wound up ultimately placing 4th with a final result of 2:25.57.

Blomsterberg also made the women’s 200m breast final at last year’s Short Course World Championships in Melbourne, Australia, producing a time of 2:20.14 to finish 7th.

With her new PB of 2:24.47, Blomsterberg enters the season’s world rankings as the 7th fastest performer. She ranks as #2 in Europe, sitting only behind Dutch ace Tess Schouten’s time of 2:23.67 from last December’s Rotterdam Qualification Meet.

2022-2023 LCM Women 200 Breast

ReonaJPN
Aoki

01/22
2:23.12
2 Lilly
King
USA 2:23.33 03/04
3 Tes
Schouten
NED 2:23.67 12/02
4 Kaylene
Corbett
RSA 2:24.01 12/02
5 Kanako
Watanabe
JPN 2:24.31 02/18
6 Tatjana
Schoenmaker
RSA 2:24.45 02/26
7 Runa
Imai
JPN 2:25.00 12/04
8 Jenna
Strauch
AUS 2:25.11 01/20
9 Kelsey
Wong
CAN 2:25.49 03/04
10 YUKINO
MIYASAKA
JPN 2:25.54 12/04

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Blomsterberg remains the 2nd fastest Danish woman in history, slowly creeping up on the national record of 2:19.11 Rikke Pedersen put on the books at the 2013 World Championships.

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