Aurélie Muller (born 7 June 1990) is a French

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, who specializes in long-distance freestyle events and open water marathon. She won the 10-kilometer competition at the 2015 world championship in Kazan, Russia and at the 2017 world championship in Budapest, Hungary.

Junior career

In 2006, Muller claimed two freestyle titles (400 and 1500 m) under a junior division at the

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, and at the

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, with respective times of 4:15.72 and 16:35.32.

Senior career

Muller qualified for the

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, after placing ninth from the

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. Muller swam in the first ever women's 10 km open water marathon, against a field of 24 other competitors. Muller finished the race in twenty-first place with a total time of 2:02:04.1, approximately two minutes behind winner

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of Russia. At the 2011 FINA World Championships in

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, Muller edged out U.S. swimmer Ashley Twichell to clinch a silver medal by a single tenth margin (0.1) in the women's 5 km marathon with a time of 1:00:40.1. Muller also sought to qualify for the

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, but missed an A-standard cut (8:33.84) in the 800 m freestyle from the national trials in

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by nearly twelve seconds, clocking at 8:45.55. In 2015, after a switch from Sarreguemines to the Narbonne Swim Club, she becomes world champion in the 10-kilometer competition, the only olympic event, in Kazan and qualifies for the Rio 2016 Olympics. Muller was voted 2015 European Open water swimmer of the year by European swimming federation LEN. In the Rio 2016 Olympic 10 km race she finished in second place, but was disqualified for grappling and obstructing Italian Rachele Bruni on the finish line.

References

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NBC Olympics Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Aurelie 1990 births Living people People from Sarreguemines French female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for France Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Female long-distance swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming Sportspeople from Moselle (department) 21st-century French sportswomen