Micha Østergaard

Who is Micha Østergaard?

Micha Kathrine Østergaard Jensen is a Danish swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She is a two-time national and Nordic record holder in the butterfly.

Ostergaard qualified for three swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing FINA A-standard entry times of 58.87 and 2:08.72 from the Danish Open Championships in Gladsaxe. In her first event, 100 m butterfly, Ostergaard rounded out the sixth heat in last place and twenty-eighth overall by 0.07 of a second behind Slovak swimmer and five-time Olympian Martina Moravcová, dipping under a minute barrier at 59.10. In the 200 m butterfly, Ostergaard broke a Danish record of 2:07.77 in the evening preliminaries to take the eighth spot for the semifinals. Followed by the next morning's session, Ostergaard failed to qualify for the final, as she finished eleventh overall in the semifinal run with a time of 2:09.29. She also teamed up with Louise Mai Jansen, Julie Hjorth-Hansen, and Lotte Friis in the 4×200 m freestyle relay. Swimming the second leg, Ostergaard recorded a split of 2:01.67, and the Danish team finished the preliminary heats in tenth overall with a new national record of 8:00.81.