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Medal record
Alexander Dale Oen
Men's Swimming
Competitor for  Norway
2008 Summer Olympics
Silver	2008 Beijing1	100 m Breaststroke
World Championships (SC)
Bronze	2006 Shanghai2	100 m breaststroke
European Championships (LC)
Gold	2008 Eindhoven	100 m Breaststroke
Silver	2006 Budapest	50 m Breaststroke
Silver	2008 Eindhoven	200 m Breaststroke
Silver	2008 Eindhoven	50 m Breaststroke
European Championships (SC)
Bronze	2006 Helsinki	100 m Breaststroke

Alexander Dale Oen (born May 21, 1985) is a Norwegian swimmer. He represents the club Vestkantsvømmerne. Dale Oen's gold at the 2008 European Championships made him the first Norwegian male to win a medal at a major international long course championship.

Oen got his international breakthrough in 2005, placing seventh in 100 metre breaststroke during the 2005 World Aquatics Championships. During the European short course Championships in December the same year he swam the 100 m breaststroke in 59.05 seconds, placing fourth and setting a new Nordic record. He became the first Norwegian to swim this distance in less than 1 minute. At the Norwegian short course Championships two months later, he bettered that time to 58.81, a world best mark for the year.

Competitions

At the 2006 FINA Short Course World Championships in Shanghai Oen won a bronze medal in 100 m breaststroke, behind Oleg Lisogor and Brenton Rickard. Oen became the first Norwegian male to win a World Championships medal in swimming. Four months later, Oen followed that up with success at the 2006 European Swimming Championships, winning the silver medal on 100 m breaststroke and setting a new Nordic record on a 50m course, with 1:00.63.

Dale Oen won his first short course medal at the 2006 European Championships in Helsinki, taking bronze behind two Ukrainians in the 100m breaststroke in a new personal best of 58.70. In the 2007 World Championships on the 50m course, Dale Oen was second fastest in the heats (in another Nordic record, 1:00.34) and third fastest in the semi-final, but failed in the final, clocking well above 1:01.

Dale Oen repeated the feat of doing better in the semis than the final at the 2007 European Short Course Championships. After 58.60, a new personal best and the second-fastest time, in the semi-finals, Dale Oen finished in 58.81, fifth place and 0.24 seconds behind the gold medal. However, Dale Oen dominated the 2008 European Championships. Setting a record time of 1:00.11 in the heats, and being fastest in both the heats and the semi-final, Dale Oen swam the final in a European record time of 59.76, and won the gold by 0.02 seconds ahead of Hugues Duboscq, who also swam a personal best.

Personal bests

Long course (50 m)

Event	Time		Date	Meet	Location	Ref
10 50 m breaststroke	27.53	NR	02008-03-23 23 March 2008	European Championships	Netherlands, Eindhoven Eindhoven, Netherlands
11 100 m breaststroke	59.16	ER, NR (sf)	02008-08-10 10 August 2008	Olympic Games	China, Beijing Beijing, China
12 200 m breaststroke	2:09.74	NR	02008-03-21 21 March 2008	European Championships	Netherlands, Eindhoven Eindhoven, Netherlands

Legend: WR – World record; ER – European record; NR – Norwegian record; Records not set in finals: (h) – heat; (sf) – semifinal; (r) – relay 1st leg; (rh) – relay heat 1st leg; (b) – B final; † – en route to final mark; (tt) – time trial

Short course (25 m)

Event	Time		Date	Meet	Location	Ref
10 50 m breaststroke	27.13	(h)	02008-04-12 12 April 2008	World SC Championships	United Kingdom, Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom
11 100 m breaststroke	58.14	NR	02008-04-10 10 April 2008	World SC Championships	United Kingdom, Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom
12 200 m breaststroke	2:08.28	NR	02007-12-16 16 December 2007	European SC Championships	Hungary, Debrecen Debrecen, Hungary
16 100 m individual medley	55.34		02008-04-20 20 April 2008	Norwegian SC Championships	Norway, Stavanger Stavanger, Norway

Legend: WR – World record; ER – European record; NR – Norwegian record; Records not set in finals: (h) – heat; (sf) – semifinal; (r) – relay 1st leg; (rh) – relay heat 1st leg; (b) – B final; † – en route to final mark; (tt) – time trial

References

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