﻿{"id":586930,"date":"2024-06-10T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T03:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=586930"},"modified":"2024-06-10T20:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T03:17:01","slug":"olympic-champion-pernille-blume-joins-world-aquatics-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympic-champion-pernille-blume-joins-world-aquatics-bureau\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Champion Pernille Blume Joins World Aquatics Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Olympic Champion Pernille Blume Joins World Aquatics Bureau<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pernille Blume<\/strong>, the Olympic champion in the women\u2019s 50 freestyle at the 2016 Olympics, was appointed to the World Aquatics Bureau on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Blume, 30, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/rio-2016-champion-pernille-blume-announces-retirement-after-achieving-her-wildest-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retired in 2022<\/a>. She reached the pinnacle of her career in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/pernille-blume-dashes-to-50-free-dominance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winning the 50 free in Rio in 2016<\/a> for Denmark, then remained on the global stage for most of the next half-decade. She is a three-time Olympian who now works in the health and wellness field, as the creator of the Align by Blume online platform.<\/p>\n<p>Blume announced her appointment on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C8CjE9ENS3u\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C8CjE9ENS3u\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Pernille Blume | Olympic Champion, Pilates &amp; Health (@pernilleblume)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Blume followed her gold in Rio with bronze in Tokyo in the 50 free. She had led Denmark to a bronze medal in the 400 medley relay in Rio. She also won three gold medals in relays at the short-course World Championships and bronze in the 100 free at Long-Course Worlds in Budapest in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Blume is one of 39 members of the Bureau, which includes 22 continental representatives, 16 world-at-large members and the chair of the Athletes\u2019 Committee, which is currently <strong>Alia Atkinson<\/strong>. Blume has a term of four years, and the next Bureau will be voted on in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Blume\u2019s appointment allows World Aquatics to get closer to a stated goal of gender parity in the Bureau. Blume is one of 15 female members, getting World Aquatics to 39 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important step. Of course, there is more work to do; our target must be a 50-50 split,\u201d World Aquatics President <strong>Husain Al-Musallam<\/strong> said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldaquatics.com\/news\/4036055\/olympic-swimming-champion-pernille-blume-denmark-appointed-world-aquatics-bureau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a press release<\/a>. \u201cToday brings us closer to this goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic Champion Pernille Blume Joins World Aquatics Bureau Pernille Blume, the Olympic champion in the women\u2019s 50 freestyle at the 2016 Olympics, was appointed to the World Aquatics Bureau on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":372158,"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":[122074],"tags":[38284,122266,40241,38939,131843,132336],"class_list":["post-586930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","tag-2016-olympics","tag-2021-olympics","tag-husain-al-musallam","tag-pernille-blume","tag-world-aquatics","tag-world-aquatics-bureau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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