Andrea Murez

Andrea Murez
Personal information
Full name Andrea Murez
Nationality  Israel
Born 1992
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes 50 m freestyle
100 m freestyle
200 m freestyle

Andrea (Andi) Murez (Hebrew: אנדראה מורז; born 1992), is an Israeli-American Olympic swimmer, Maccabiah Games winner and Maccabiah record holder, as well as an Israeli national record holder. She has won 15 medals at the Maccabiah Games, 10 of them gold. Her specialties are the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter freestyle and 200-meter freestyle.

Murez moved to Israel from the United States in 2014 and was the first Israeli swimmer to finish the 200-meter freestyle in less than two minutes. She was also the first Israeli woman to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics, which will be her first Olympic Games. On April 17, 2015, she qualified to the 50-meter freestyle event with a time of 25.12 seconds.[1] Four months later, on August 13, she qualified to the 100-meter event.[2]

References

  1. Swimming: Andy Murez will be at rio olympics (Hebrew: גם אנדי מורז תהיה באולימפיאדת ריו)
  2. Swimming: another Criterion to rio for Murez (Hebrew: מורז השיגה קריטריון נוסף לריו)


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