Andrea Murez
- January 5, 2024
- Swimmer
Quick Facts
Full Name | Andrea Murez |
Occupation | Swimmer |
Date Of Birth | Jan 29, 1992(1992-01-29) |
Age | 32 |
Birthplace | United States of America |
Country | Israel |
Horoscope | Aquarius |
Andrea Murez Biography
Name | Andrea Murez |
Birthday | Jan 29 |
Birth Year | 1992 |
Place Of Birth | United States of America |
Birth Country | Israel |
Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Andrea Murez is one of the most popular and richest Swimmer who was born on January 29, 1992 in United States of America, Israel. Her paternal grandfather, Joe Murez, grew up in pre-war Austria on the Danube River, swam competitively for the Jewish Hakoah Vienna Sports Club in the 1930s, and related how during Hitler’s annexation of Austria Nazis would gather around the pool to beat up Jewish swimmers. He immigrated to the United States in 1938, serving in the U.S. Army intelligence corps. He then became one of the largest garlic growers in the world, and ultimately introduced his granddaughter Andi to swimming.
Murez’s brother, Zachary (Zak), who is three years older than she is, set five swim records at Venice High School. He won 10 medals (four of them gold) in the 2003 Pan-American Maccabi Games in Santiago, Chile, and then swam for the Yale University swim team, before studying for a master’s degree in computer science at UC San Diego.
At the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel, the “Jewish Olympics” that are one of the largest sporting events in the world, swimming for the United States Murez won nine medals (five gold and four silver). She broke all-time Maccabiah Games records while winning gold medals in four individual events: 50 m freestyle (26.44); 100 m freestyle (0:56.44); 200 m freestyle (2:03:45); and 200 m Individual Medley (2:20.74). She set Maccabiah Games records in the 50 m, 100 m, and 200 m freestyle. She earned her 5th gold medal anchoring the USA 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay team, which set an all-time Maccabiah Games record (3:53:55). Her four silver medals were in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, 4 × 100 m Medley Relay, 100 m backstroke, and the 200 m backstroke.
Murez attended Venice High School, in Los Angeles, California, graduating in
- In high school, she was on the national honor roll. She also attended Hebrew school at Mishkon Tephilo in Venice, and was bat mitzvah.
Murez also swam for the Santa Monica Swim Club Team from 1999 to 2009. The Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame named her the 2010 Female Jewish High School Athlete of the Year.
Andrea Murez Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Swimmer |
House | Living in own house. |
Andrea Murez is one of the richest Swimmer from Israel. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andrea Murez 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Her father’s stepfather, Raymond Federman, who was Jewish, was 14 years old when his parents hid him in a small stairway landing closet as Gestapo arrived at the family home in Nazi-occupied France. His family was taken away, and his parents and two sisters were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Federman hid from the Nazis on farms in southern France during the Holocaust. He later became a leading backstroker on the French national team, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1947, where he became an English professor, an expert on author Samuel Beckett, and a novelist.
Andrea (Andi) Murez (Hebrew: אנדראה מורז ; born January 29, 1992), is an Israeli-American Olympic swimmer. She swam for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Swimming for the Venice High School Gondoliers, Murez won eight City Section individual championships and set four City records. In the Los Angeles City Finals in May 2008, she set the city’s record for the 100 freestyle. That year she also qualified for the U.S. Olympic trials. As a senior in the Spring of 2009, Murez won the 100-yard freestyle in a Los Angeles record time of 49.63. She also broke the 200-yard freestyle record, and holds the section records in the 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard backstroke. She was named the team’s Most Valuable Player for four years, was team captain her senior year, was an eight-time CIF sectional champion, and set four CIF sectional records.
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Murez made aliyah, moving to Israel, in 2014. She lives in Netanya, at the Wingate Institute, with other Israeli swimmers. She intends to enroll in Tel Aviv University Medical School beginning in the fall of 2017.
Facts & Trivia
Andrea Ranked on the list of most popular Swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Israel. Andrea Murez celebrates birthday on January 29 of every year.
In December 2015, at the 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships at the Wingate Institute in Netanya, Israel, Murez set a new Israeli record of 1:56.34 in the 200 m, breaking by over two seconds the 4-year-old record that Amit Ivry had set at the 2011 Israeli Winter Championships. She also set a new Israeli record in the 100m freestyle, at 52.88.