31 Facts About Andrea Murez

Andrea Murez represented Israel for the third time at the 2024 Paris Olympics where she was one of the flag bearers together with the Olympic judoka Peter Paltchik.

Andrea Murez has won 17 medals at the Maccabiah Games, 12 of them gold.

Andrea Murez holds the Israeli national records in the 100 m and 200 m freestyle.

Andrea Murez is Jewish, and was raised in Los Angeles.

Andrea Murez immigrated to the United States in 1938, serving in the US Army Intelligence Corps.

Andrea Murez then became one of the largest garlic growers in the world, and ultimately was the one to introduce his granddaughter Andi to swimming.

Andrea Murez's family was taken away, and his parents and two sisters were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Andrea Murez later became a leading backstroker on the French national team, and emigrated to the US in 1947, where he became an English professor, an expert on author Samuel Beckett, and a novelist.

Andrea Murez won 10 medals 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.

Andrea Murez attended Venice High School, in Los Angeles, California, graduating in 2009.

Andrea Murez attended Hebrew school at Mishkon Tephilo in Venice, Los Angeles.

Andrea Murez attended Stanford University on a swimming scholarship, majoring in human biology, and intends to eventually pursue a career in biology.

Andrea Murez is a graduate of Tel Aviv University Medical School.

Swimming for the Venice High School Gondoliers, Andrea Murez won eight City Section individual championships and set four City records.

Andrea Murez broke the 200-yard freestyle record, and holds the section records in the 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard backstroke.

Andrea Murez 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.

Andrea Murez swam for the Stanford Cardinal, and was a three-time NCAA All-American.

Andrea Murez was the first Israeli swimmer to finish the 200 m freestyle in less than two minutes.

Andrea Murez set the Israeli national record in the long course 100 m freestyle, at 54.40.

In December 2015, at the 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships at the Wingate Institute in Netanya, Israel, Andrea 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.

Andrea Murez set a new Israeli record in the 100m freestyle, at 52.88.

In May 2016, Andrea Murez competed in the 2016 European Aquatics Championships, placing 5th in the 100 m freestyle, 13th in the 200 m freestyle, and 15th in the 50 m freestyle.

On 3 July 2024, Andrea Murez was designated as Israel's flag bearer at the 2024 Paris Olympics, alongside judoka Peter Paltchik.

At the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel, States Andrea Murez won nine medals swimming for the United.

Andrea Murez broke all-time Maccabiah Games records while winning gold medals in four individual events: 50 m freestyle ; 100 m freestyle ; 200 m freestyle ; and 200 m Individual Medley.

Andrea Murez set Maccabiah Games records in the 50 m, 100 m, and 200 m freestyle.

Andrea Murez competed again in the 2013 Maccabiah Games, winning five gold medals and two silver medals while setting a number of swimming records swimming for the United States.

Andrea Murez received the 2013 Maccabiah Games Most Outstanding Athlete Award for Women.

At the 2017 Maccabiah Games, competing as an Israeli, Andrea Murez won the women's 100m freestyle, with a time of 55.15 seconds, and set a new Games record as she won the 200m freestyle in 1:59.80.

Andrea Murez was the first Israeli woman to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics, her first Olympic Games.

In 2016, Andrea Murez was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.