Sindri Thor Jakobsson

Sindri Thor Jakobsson
Sindri Thor Jakobsson at the 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Personal information
Born (1991-09-24) September 24, 1991 (age 33)
Iceland
Sport
SportSwimming

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 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]

References

  1. ^ "Sindri Thor Jakobsson". Eurosport. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Sindri Þór Jakobsson". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 29 June 2003.
  3. ^ "Tvöfalt piltamet hjá Sindra". Keflavík.is (in Icelandic). 11 July 2008.
  4. ^ a b "Efnilegasti sundmaðurinn". Bæjarins besta (in Icelandic). 14 July 2009.
  5. ^ Eyþór Sæmundsson (4 December 2013). "Sundið á góðu skriði í Reykjanesbæ". Víkurfréttir (in Icelandic).
  6. ^ "Sindri Thor Jakobsson". Bergensvømmerne.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  7. ^ Ívar Benediktsson (2 September 2010). "Sindri er orðinn norskur". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic).
  8. ^ "Sund: Sindri Þór orðinn Norðmaður" (in Icelandic). RÚV. 2 September 2010.
  9. ^ a b Solfrid Therese Nordbakk (15 March 2016). "Sindri var helt 'konge' i svømme-NM". Nordstrands Blad (in Norwegian).
  10. ^ "Sindri Þór setti Íslandsmet í 200 metra flugsundi". Bæjarins besta (in Icelandic). 31 July 2008.
  11. ^ "Sindri Þór Jakobsson, ÍRB, setti Íslandsmet". Víkurfréttir (in Icelandic). 1 August 2008.
  12. ^ "Sindri Þór Jakobsson, ÍRB, setti Íslandsmet". Vísir (in Icelandic). 365 miðlar. 1 August 2008.[dead link‍]
  13. ^ "Sindri Þór norskur meistari í 1500m skriðsundi". Víkurfréttir (in Icelandic). 13 July 2009.
  14. ^ Per Opsahl (22 December 2012). "Forteller om marerittet da de fant Dale Oen livløs". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian).
  15. ^ "Det helt ufattelige på rom 227". Sunnmørsposten (in Norwegian). 22 December 2012.
  16. ^ Axel Pileby (22 December 2012). "Fann Dale Oen död - berättar om händelsen". Expressen (in Swedish).
  17. ^ Sindre Vik Helgheim (22 December 2012). "De fant Alexander Dale Oen død" (in Norwegian). NRK.
  18. ^ Rokur (22 April 2013). "Sindri Jakobsson back on track after a traumatic year". Swimmer's Daily.
  19. ^ "Jakobsson satte norsk rekord på 200 m butterfly". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). NTB. 23 May 2012.
  20. ^ "Rekordstart for Jakobsson". Bergensavisen (in Norwegian). NTB. 12 December 2013.
  21. ^ "Jakobsson nær norsk rekord i svømme-EM". iTromsø (in Norwegian). NTB. 15 December 2013.
  22. ^ Trond Roger Nydal (18 June 2014). "Får Berlin-tur uten å ha klart kravet". Bergensavisen (in Norwegian).
  23. ^ Elisabeth De Lange Gjesdal (20 August 2014). "Ny norsk rekord". Aftenposten (in Norwegian).
  24. ^ "Lavrans Solli makes Euro final after record swim". The Local. Norway. NTB. 21 August 2014.
  25. ^ "Bergenser satte ny norsk rekord". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). 2 December 2015.
  26. ^ Magnus Wikan (2 December 2015). "'Valget sto mellom å flytte fra Bergen eller legge opp'". Aftenposten (in Norwegian).
  27. ^ "Ny rekord for Sindri Thor Jakobsson" (in Norwegian). NRK. 4 December 2015.
  28. ^ "'Ser vi deg i OL?' 'Ja, det gjør du!'" (video) (in Norwegian). TV 2. 28 May 2016.
  29. ^ Sander Englund Smørdal (31 May 2016). "Denne gjengens superallianse gjør veien til OL-finale tøffere for Svømme-Henrik" (in Norwegian). TV 2.
  30. ^ "Jakobsson til semifinale i svømme-EM". Romsdals Budstikke (in Norwegian). NTB. 18 May 2016.
  31. ^ Ingrid Haslev Anmarkrud (22 May 2016). "Oppsummering-EM i svømming i London" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Swimming Federation.
  32. ^ "Sindri Thor Jakobsson legger opp". Simma.nu (in Norwegian). 24 October 2016.