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Sarah Sjöström will become a mother for the first time this summer.
Now she plans for a life after swimming.
– In my plan for the time between the Paris and Olympics in Los Angeles 2028, I have to take some time to think what I want to do the day that my career is over, she tells Dagens Nyheter.
After two incredible Olympic golds in Paris this summer decided Sarah Sjöström31, to take a break. She had already managed to take over 90 medals from international championships. The first European gold came already when she was 14 years old. In December last year, Dagens Nyheter revealed that Sarah would not compete for anything in 2025. Partly because her career had been going on for so long and she simply needed to find new motivation for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
Sjöström will become a mother in August
Partly also for Sarah Sjöström to become a mother later this year. On February 26, she confirmed on Instagram that she and her husband Johan de Jong Skierus35, will be parents for the first time.
“Now the greatest adventure of life begins. We are extremely excited that our family is growing and we long to meet our baby in August, ”she writes.
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She still plans to compete in the Olympics in LA in three and a half years, but the road ahead will of course be completely different. Since she has chosen not to compete anything in 2025, there is a lot of time for her to do something else. Among other things, Sjöström, who trained as a personal trainer during the pandemic, has to study again. It is all about what she really wants to do that day her career that elite athletes is over.
Sarah Sjöström’s new goal with life
Since February, Sarah Sjöström has been a student at IHM Business School. DN has met her at school.
– I read Business Management, which includes, among other things, marketing, business economics and a little bit else that you need to be able to work in a company. I wanted to learn more about how a company is structured, and understand more about profitability and such stuff. But also gain knowledge about the market part and what different business strategies look and work, she tells the newspaper.
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– In my plan for the time between the Paris and Olympics in the Los Angeles 2028, I have to take some time to think what I want to do the day that my career is over. Whatever it will be, I will benefit greatly from this education so it feels like a good start, she continues.
Sarah has realized that in the future she will have to work on selling a product to a customer rather than selling herself. Obviously there will be a big change for her, but she thinks it should be so.
– I’m so used to everything about me. In my company, the focus is on what it takes for me to perform as well as possible. But if I work in another company in the future, it will no longer be about me, but about their products, she says.
Congratulations to you Sarah – and to husband Johan. Hope everything goes well with pregnancy and good luck with family life in the future. It will be so interesting and exciting to follow later.
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