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

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

Career

Angela Maurer lives in

Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...

, where she was born. She swims for the ''SSV Undine 08 e.V. Mainz'' swimming club, and trains together with

Dimitri Colupaev Dimitri Colupaev (born 29 January 1990) is a Moldovan-born German swimmer. He competed in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and finished fourth. At the 2012 European Aquatics Championships, Colupaev and his Germa ...

and Marc-Oliver Stein under

Nikolai Evseev Nikolay Sergeyevich Yevseyev (russian: Николай Серге́евич Евсеев; born 16 April 1966) is a Russian former freestyle swimmer. He won a silver and a bronze medal in 4 × 100 m relays at the 1986 World Aquatics Championships. ...

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...

. She has been studying at police technical college since 1 September 2007, and is a member of the

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

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elite sports training programme. At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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she achieved 4th place in the 10 km marathon swim, only a fraction of a second behind the bronze medallist

Cassie Patten Cassandra Lily Patten (born 1 January 1987 at Cardinham, Cornwall, United Kingdom) is a British freestyle swimmer and coach who won the bronze in the 10 km open-water event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Early life Cassie had always loved th ...

In 2009, she won the 10 km open-water race at the German national swimming championships in

Lindau Lindau (german: Lindau (Bodensee), ''Lindau am Bodensee''; ; Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Lindou'') is a major Town#Germany, town and Lindau (island), island on the eastern side of Lake Constance (''Bodensee'' in German) in Bavaria, Ge ...

with a time of 2:01:31.43, ensuring her place at the

2009 World Aquatics Championships The 2009 World Aquatics Championships ( it, Campionati mondiali di nuoto 2009) or the XIII FINA World Championships were held in Rome, Italy from 18 July to 2 August 2009. The 2009 Championships featured competition in all 5 aquatics disciplines ...

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Achievements

* Qualifying for the 2008 Olympics at the 5th World Open Water Championships in

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

* 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) * Overall winner of the 2002 World Cup in open-water swimming *

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...

Sportswoman of the Year * Member of th
International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame

References

External links

*
Angela Maurer
at openwaterpedia.com

at dailynewsofopenwaterswimming.com * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maurer, Angela 1975 births Living people German female swimmers German female freestyle swimmers German female long-distance swimmers Sportspeople from Wiesbaden Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Germany World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming 20th-century German women 21st-century German women