Josefine Lillhage

Josefin Lillhage

Olympic Finalist and World Champion Freestyle Swimmer

Josefin Lillhage was born in the sign of Pisces and loves water. There is simply no other sport than swimming that is more natural to her.

She started to compete when she was eight years old. When she was 14 she was competing on the elite level and at 15 was on the Swedish national team. Since then she has had great success.  In 2004, Josephine was one of the best swimmers in the world. She was one of the finalists in the Olympic Games, won the World Championship, earned the European Championship title, and achieved the European record.

Josefin’s training is extensive and requires a lot of hard work.  Take a look at how extensive her weekly training regimen is:

Monday: Two training sessions of swimming, the first between 8–10 in the morning and the other one between 5–7 p.m. Between that she has two hours of strength training. A day like this she doesn’t have much time to do anything else than to rest and eat between the training sessions.

Tuesday: Two training sessions of swimming, the first between 7–9 a.m. and the other between 4–6 p.m. she also does half an hour of stretching after the training sessions.

Wednesday: Like Monday, two training sessions of swimming and strength training.

Thursday: Same schedule as Tuesday.

Friday: Same schedule as Monday and Wednesday.

Saturday:  Free day, unless there is a competition.

Sunday: 1-2 training sessions, or a competition

Josefin first came in contact with TAHITIAN NONI™ Juice in 2002. Since that time the juice has become a part of her training and competing.

”It is hard to do things other than training on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On these days I have three training sessions a day. Tuesdays and Thursdays I have two sessions a day. Then I try to do other things like seeing my family, friends, shopping and going to the movies. But swimming is my job and I take pleasure in working for something that is fun to do. I am very satisfied with my life at the moment and I know that I will not be able to do this for the rest of my life. I love to be a full time swimmer.”

”TAHITIAN NONI™ Juice is a matter of course towards new titles and new records. I drink the juice every day and keep up with my high level of training.” says Josefin.

Summary of Josefin’s career:

2005: Bronze Medal in the World Championship
2004: Finalist in the Olympic Games, gold medal in the World Championship, bronze medal in the European Championship, gold medal in the European Championship
2003: 6th place in World Championship, silver medal in the European Championship, Nordic record
2002: Two silver medals in European Championship
2001: World Championship in Fokouka, Japan
2000: Olympic Games in Sydney
1999: Bronze and gold medal in the World Championship, world record 4x200 freestyle
1998: Silver medal in World Championship, 4x200 freestyle
1997: Two Silver medals in the European Championship 4x100, 4x200 freestyle
1996: Olympic Games in Atlanta, 9th place, 4x200 freestyle
1995: First competition with the Swedish National Team in the World Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—15 years old

Placings/medals/records:
Bronze 200 freestyle World Championship in Montreal 2005
Gold 200 freestyle European Championship in Vienna 2004
Bronze 100 freestyle European Championship in Vienna 2004
Gold 200 freestyle World Championship in Indianapolis 2004
Gold 4x100 freestyle World Championship in Moscow 2002
Gold 4x200 freestyle World Championship in Hong Kong 1999
Gold 4x50 freestyle European Championship in Riesa 2002, 4x50 freestyle European Championship in Dublin 2002
Silver 200 freestyle European Championship in Dublin 2003, Lisbon 2001
Bronze 200 freestyle World Championship in Hong Kong 1999, 200 freestyle European Championship in Riesa 2002
Olympic Games: 1996, 2000, 2004
Swedish Champion: 15 times
Nordic records: 200 freestyle in both short and long lane

Personal records:
200 meters freestyle.  Short lane 1.54.64
Long lane: 1.59.20
100 meter freestyle:  Short lane: 53.26
Long lane: 55.33
400 meters freestyle:  Short lane: 4.05.40
Long lane: 4.16.28