{"id":569944,"date":"2023-10-01T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=569944"},"modified":"2023-10-01T07:40:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:40:24","slug":"talent-grace-and-class-as-paris-games-call-sarah-sjostrom-every-bit-a-role-model-athletically-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/talent-grace-and-class-as-paris-games-call-sarah-sjostrom-every-bit-a-role-model-athletically-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Talent, Grace and Class: As Paris Games Call, Sarah Sjostrom Every Bit a Role Model &#8211; Athletically and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Talent, Grace and Class: As Paris Games Call, Sarah Sjostrom Every Bit a Role Model &#8211; Athletically and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As 2023 nears its end, <strong>Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong> is riding her latest wave of momentum. She heads into the Olympic campaign with two more global titles and every bit the favorite to add another Olympic crown to her overflowing portfolio.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She should have faded by now. Maybe even retired. Such is life as a 30-year-old in a sport that continually features rising phenoms ready to bump the old guard off the throne. But Swedish star <strong>Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong>\u2014year after year\u2014has repelled her challengers, age be damned.<\/p>\n<p>The scary thing? There\u2019s evidence she\u2019s getting better. And the beautiful part of Sjostrom\u2019s story is how her talent is complemented by undeniable grace and class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A SUPER SUMMER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The summer ahead of an Olympic year is widely considered an important measuring stick. So, it wasn\u2019t a surprise that the World Championships, held in July in Fukuoka, featured 10 world-record performances and countless other swims that qualified as superb. Sjostrom worked in the delivery department.<\/p>\n<p>In search of a more manageable week than in previous years, the Swede scaled back her schedule to a pair of sprint events and relay duty. Individually, Sjostrom entered only the 50 meter butterfly and 50 freestyle, events in which she was the world record holder. The decision turned out perfectly, as Sjostrom not only doubled the one-lap dashes, but accomplished the feat in dominant fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Sjostrom\u2019s initial title arrived in the 50 butterfly, where she popped a winning time of 24.77, following a mark of 24.74 in the semifinals. It was Sjostrom\u2019s fifth consecutive gold medal in the event, and she now owns the 22-fastest times in history. Meanwhile, she ripped the two-fastest efforts of all-time in the 50 freestyle, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-seven-semifinals-sarah-sjostrom-takes-down-world-record-in-50-freestyle-semis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">world record of 23.61 highlighting the semifinals<\/a> and a mark of 23.62 locking down the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end, I\u2019m very happy that I actually chose to have a light program,\u201d Sjostrom said. \u201cI realized the circus around the races. That\u2019s what\u2019s the most exhausting part\u2014it\u2019s not the actual race&#8230;it\u2019s all the other points we need to do to prepare for the race and afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sjostrom\u2019s latest two solo medals handed her a career record, one that was formerly held by the legendary <strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong>. From the 2001-11 World Championships, Phelps captured 20 individual medals spanning five events. Sjostrom now has 21 career medals from the World Champs, a collection that began in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Sjostrom, too, has won her medals over five events: 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle, 50 butterfly and 100 butterfly. In addition to 12 gold medals, she owns six silver medals and three bronze. To better a standard held by Phelps was meaningful to the Swedish standout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never really look at the stats too much,\u201d Sjostrom said. \u201cBut of course, I\u2019m super proud when I hear about all the stats, and I enjoy this. It\u2019s great that I keep winning medals, and I think I can win more in the future. Maybe Michael will want to come back now. He\u2019s the hero of swimming, and what he has done for swimming is amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>HALL OF FAME CAREER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The moment Sjostrom enters retirement, the clock on her enshrinement in the International Swimming Hall of Fame will begin ticking. Sjostrom is a first-ballot lock for induction, having achieved everything she has chased. She owns titles from multiple global competitions. She set world records in four different events. She has medaled internationally at three different distances.<\/p>\n<p>No one has ever tallied 100 career medals from major international competitions, but Sjostrom is knocking on the door. Through the summer, she owns 91 medals among the Olympic Games, World Championships (long course\/short course) and the European Championships (long course\/short course). Hungarian <strong>Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> possesses 97 medals from the same five meets, and if Sjostrom continues on her current arc, she should surpass Hosszu\u2019s mark and move into triple figures.<\/p>\n<p>For all the hardware Sjostrom has taken home, she deserves a gold medal for the way she has comported herself around the world. She is the epitome of class and grace, routinely recognizing the efforts of the opposition, connecting with fans, and providing access to the media. Through injuries, she has maintained a positive outlook, and when she was frequently just off the podium during the early 2010s, Sjostrom simply battled\u2014confident her work would eventually be rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>At the World Champs in Fukuoka, Sjostrom exhibited her selfless demeanor when she discussed the story of Japan\u2019s <strong>Rikako Ikee<\/strong>, a butterfly rival who won a battle with leukemia. When Ikee qualified for the final of the 50 butterfly, Sjostrom lauded the effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just remarkable,\u201d Sjostrom said. \u201cI have no words for how amazing her comeback is already. I can\u2019t even put words to what she has done. Medals and records and things like that don\u2019t really matter when you go through the kind of challenge that she has gone through. That\u2019s what everyone has to remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A SCHEDULING ADJUSTMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Sjostrom prepares for the Paris Games, her training will be geared around a schedule different from the one she managed at the World Championships. With the 50 butterfly not part of the Olympic program, Sjostrom is expected to once again attack the 100 freestyle, an event in which she is the world record holder.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger question, though, is whether she will again embrace the 100 butterfly, the event that vaulted Sjostrom onto the international scene as a 15-year-old in 2009 and made her an Olympic champion in 2016. After reaching the final of the event at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo\u2014not long after recovering from a fractured elbow\u2014Sjostrom has bypassed the event at the past two editions of the World Champs.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the opportunity to give the discipline another go on the biggest stage is enticing. In Fukuoka, Sjostrom hinted that a return is under consideration. Should she race the 100 fly in the French capital, it could mean clashes with the likes of Canadian <strong>Maggie Mac Neil<\/strong>, the reigning Olympic champ, and the past two world champs in American <strong>Torri Huske<\/strong> and China\u2019s <strong>Zhang Yufei<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the event would be a can\u2019t-miss showdown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE DAYS AHEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Sarah Sjostrom walks off deck tomorrow, her legacy is firmly established. Fortunately, she still maintains a love of her sport, and a passion for competition. So, in the months ahead, she\u2019ll log the necessary hours in the pool to remain a force&#8230;as well as a threat to the world-record book.<\/p>\n<p>The Games in Paris are calling, and Sjostrom is well-positioned to make her fifth Olympiad a spectacular one. As she preps for that competition, count on Sjostrom enjoying the ride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just do the work every day and go to practice, and try to stay humble,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m not forcing anything to come to me. Back in the day, I was forcing. When I started breaking world records and I started to improve my best times, I wanted more all the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now I\u2019m like, I can be calm with where I am at the moment and just hope for the best sometimes. You try to relax with everything, and it comes to me naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talent, Grace and Class: As Paris Games Call, Sarah Sjostrom Every Bit a Role Model &#8211; Athletically and Beyond As 2023 nears its end, Sarah Sjostrom is riding her latest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7533,"featured_media":534278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122074,10],"tags":[32196],"class_list":["post-569944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-europe","category-world","tag-sarah-sjostrom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Talent, Grace and Class: Sarah Sjostrom Every Bit a Role Model<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sarah Sjostrom, defined by great talent and pure class, heads into the Olympic year with momentum and positioned to star.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/talent-grace-and-class-as-paris-games-call-sarah-sjostrom-every-bit-a-role-model-athletically-and-beyond\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Talent, Grace and Class: As Paris Games Call, Sarah Sjostrom Every Bit a Role Model - Athletically and Beyond\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sarah Sjostrom, defined by great talent and pure class, heads into the Olympic year with momentum and positioned to star.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/talent-grace-and-class-as-paris-games-call-sarah-sjostrom-every-bit-a-role-model-athletically-and-beyond\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-01T14:40:24+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023-world-championships-Day-7-6-1024x683.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Lohn - Editor-in-Chief\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Lohn - Editor-in-Chief\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/talent-grace-and-class-as-paris-games-call-sarah-sjostrom-every-bit-a-role-model-athletically-and-beyond\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/talent-grace-and-class-as-paris-games-call-sarah-sjostrom-every-bit-a-role-model-athletically-and-beyond\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"John Lohn - Editor-in-Chief\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/3f0e2ad8a794a7b70130d33a350970df\"},\"headline\":\"Talent, Grace and Class: As Paris Games Call, Sarah Sjostrom Every Bit a Role Model &#8211; 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