Angela Maurer (born 27 July 1975) is a German long-distance swimmer.
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| Born | 27 July 1975 (age 49) Wiesbaden, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
editAngela Maurer lives in Wiesbaden, where she was born. She swims for the SSV Undine 08 e.V. Mainz swimming club, and trains together with Dimitri Colupaev and Marc-Oliver Stein under Nikolai Evseev in Mainz.[citation needed]
She has been studying at police technical college since 1 September 2007, and is a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate's state elite sports training programme.[citation needed] At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she achieved 4th place in the 10 km marathon swim, only a fraction of a second behind the bronze medallist Cassie Patten.[1]
In 2009, she won the 10 km open-water race at the German national swimming championships in Lindau with a time of 2:01:31.43, ensuring her place at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome.[citation needed]
Achievements
edit- Qualifying for the 2008 Olympics at the 5th World Open Water Championships in Seville
- 8 German national titles in 5 km, 10 km und 25 km open-water swimming
- double 2006 European champion in both 10 km und 25 km open-water swimming, runner-up in 1999 and 2002
- seven World Championship medals in 10 km und 25 km open-water swimming (one gold, three silver, three bronze)[2][3][4]
- Overall winner of the 2002 World Cup in open-water swimming
- Hesse Sportswoman of the Year
- Member of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame
References
edit- ^ "Beijing 2008 – Open water silver and bronze for Brits". Yahoo sport. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
- ^ "14th Fina World Championships 25 km women's results" (PDF). www.fina.org. FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ^ "Open Water, Day 5: Martina Grimaldi of Italy wins women's 25km". www.fina.org. FINA. 27 July 2013. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
- ^ Eggert, Greg (23 July 2013). "Open Water, Day 3: Brazil's Okimoto and Cunha finish 1-2 in women's 10km". www.fina.org. FINA. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
External links
edit- Official website (in German)
- Angela Maurer at openwaterpedia.com
- Final 2011 World Cup Rankings Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine at dailynewsofopenwaterswimming.com
- Angela Maurer at World Aquatics
- Angela Maurer at Olympics.com
- Angela Maurer at Team Deutschland (in German)
- Angela Maurer at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
