French Portrait Series: Aurélie Muller (Video)

2016 RIO OLYMPIC GAMES

The French Federation is releasing a series of quick-hit videos on the FFN YouTube channel introducing members of France’s 2016 Olympic team in facts and figures. The videos are all under a minute and are a great way to portrait France’s stars for the Snapchat crowd.

In this video, we learn that Aurélie Muller:

-won the World Junior title in the 1500 free at Rio de Janeiro in 2006

-won the European Junior title in the 400 free in Palma de Mallorca in 2006;

-began open water swimming in 2007;

-participated in the first Olympic Games for open water swimming in Beijing in 2008;

-won a silver medal in the 5k open water race at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai;

-went to train in Canada in 2014;

-returned to France in 2015 to train with coach Philippe Lucas;

-won France’s first world championship title in open water, winning the 10k in Kazan in 2015;

-is 26 years old.

 

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Anne Lepesant is the mother of four daughters, all of whom swam in college. With an undergraduate degree from Princeton (where she was an all-Ivy tennis player) and an MBA from INSEAD, she worked for many years in the financial industry, both in France and the U.S. Anne is currently …

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