Angela Maurer

Angela Maurer
	Maurer on the winner's podium at the German national championships, Lindau
Personal information
Born	27 July 1975 (age 49); Wiesbaden, West Germany
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Germany
World Championships
European Championships

Angela Maurer (born 27 July 1975) is a German long-distance swimmer.

Career

Angela 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

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

^ "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

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)

[1] "Beijing 2008 – Open water silver and bronze for Brits". Yahoo sport. Archived from the original on September 7, 2008. Retrieved 2009-06-22.

[2] "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.

[3] "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.

[4] 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.

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