On the first day of competition at the North Sea Swim Meet Jeanette Ottesen recorded two wins and put up times that placed within the top five and top ten of the world rankings.
On the second day of competition it looked like she would do the same in her lone event, the 100 butterfly, finishing the race in a time of 56.32, which would have put her fourth in the world rankings. That is until meet officials disqualified the Danish star.
Ottesen voiced her displeasure with the decision through her Twitter account:
Thank you North Sea Swim Meet for giving amateur officials a chance to wrongly disqualify me.I WAS so pleased with 56.32 still counts to me.
— Jeanette Ottesen (@OttesenJeanette) November 9, 2014
Ottesen’s Danish teammate Rikke Moller Pedersen won her third event of the competition taking the women’s 50 breaststroke in a time of 30.84. Her time is a season’s best and with the win she completed the sweep of the breaststroke events at the three day competition.
Swimming in an event which he is not know for Ari-Pekka Liukkonen took the men’s 50 breaststroke in a time of 26.89. Liukkonen’s time, which was only 25 one-hundredths of a second off of Andrei Tumola‘s 2009 Finnish national record, places him 17th in the world rankings
Alexandre Haldemann took the men’s 200 freestyle in a time of 1:46.80 while Pal Joensen, who won the 400 and 800 freestyle earlier in the competition finished fourth in a time of 1:48.08.
Full results can be found here.
All races can be viewed on the meet’s website.
pretty sure it doesnt say that she swam 56.32, but rather 59.15 -.-
anonomys swimma – her Tweet says 56.32. You can see it here: https://twitter.com/OttesenJeanette/status/531503033482760193
Surprised it wasn’t for the 15 m violation.
She was sculling in the glide phase of the stroke right before the 50 and 75 meter turn. Three officials saw it and reported it. No doubt the dq was right.
She inisiated a pull, but didn’t complete it.
Well normally when any Danish national team member gets DQ’ed, it’s the coaches that throw the monumental hissy fit. They were calm during this incident though.
Amateur officials???
Do you want professional officials? Paid for by deducting 30% of prize money, of course…
Is there even any prize money for this event? If not, Ottesen is just an amateur swimmer, too…
if she gets to the final its and win final she gets 1500 kroner, if she gets the most points of the women in the meet she gets 10000 kroner. thats around 2200 us dollar or sumthin
Amateur officials? Do professional swimming officials even exist?
1 The comment should never have been made online.
2 If she had to comment online, she should have done so in Danish, so people outside of Denmark would not have known what she was saying.
Ever heard of google translate?
Wow, what a baby! Oh wait, I forgot, she was swimming at the North Sea World Championships/Olympics. That puts her childish rant all into perspective.