Karen Muir
Karen Muir | |
Karen Muir (1967) |
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Personal information | |
Surname: | Karen Muir |
Nickname (s): | Tepid torpedo |
Nation: | South Africa |
Swimming style (s) : | move |
Birthday: | September 16, 1952 |
Place of birth: | Kimberley |
Date of death: | April 1, 2013 |
Place of death: | Mossel Bay |
Karen Muir (born September 16, 1952 in Kimberley , † April 1, 2013 in Mossel Bay ) was a South African swimmer .
Live and act
Karen Muir grew up in the South African city of Kimberley. In the summer of 1965, the South African Swimming Union sent her to the ASA National Junior Championships in Blackpool to gain experience in international swimming competition. On August 10, 1965, she surprisingly undercut the previous world record by a seventeenth of a second over 110 yards back with 01: 08.7 minutes, which had been set two weeks earlier by the 17-year-old Englishwoman Linda Ludgrove (* 1947). At this point in time, Muir was 12 years, 10 months and 25 days old, making it the youngest world record holder of all sports and times. From 1965 to 1969 she set a total of 15 world records over 100 meters, 200 meters, 110 yards and 220 yards back. She won 22 times in the South African national competitions in freestyle , backstroke and medley swimming and three times in the United States Swimming National Championships (backstroke). She could not compete in the Olympic Games because South Africa was excluded from participation from 1964 to 1992. In 1980, Muir was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as the first South African woman.
In 1970, Muir ended her sporting career and graduated from Diamantveld High School in Kimberley in the same year. She then studied at the University of the Free State and then obtained a doctorate in medicine . She and her husband de Graad later worked as doctors in South Africa. In 2000, Muir emigrated to Canada, where she first lived in Saskatchewan and then practiced as a general practitioner in Vanderhoof .
In 2009, Karen Muir was diagnosed with breast cancer. She returned to South Africa in January 2013 after the cancer began to spread. She died at the age of 60 in her sister's house in Mossel Bay . She left three daughters living in South Africa and one son residing in Canada.
Successes (selection)
route | style | time | date | place |
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200 metres | move | 02: 27.1 | July 25, 1966 | Beziers |
200 metres | move | 02: 26.4 | 18th August 1966 | Lincoln |
200 metres | move | 02: 24.1 | January 6, 1968 | Kimberley |
100 meters | move | 01: 06.7 | January 30, 1968 | Kimberley |
100 meters | move | 01: 06.4 | April 6, 1968 | Paris |
200 metres | move | 02: 23.8 | July 21, 1968 | los Angeles |
100 meters | move | 01: 05.6 | July 6, 1969 | Utrecht |
Web links
- Biography (English)
- Karen Muir in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)
- Obituary ( memento from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in the Volksblad (Afrikaans)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karen Muir ( Memento from May 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the South African Sports and Arts Hall of Fame, accessed on April 4, 2013.
- ↑ World Swim Mark Set By South African, 12. In: Ellensburg Daily Record. August 11, 1965, p. 5 , accessed April 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Karen Muir in the International Swimming Hall of Fame , accessed April 4, 2013.
- ↑ Sarah Evans: "Tepid Torpedo" Karen Muir remembered. iol.co.za, April 3, 2013, accessed April 4, 2013.
- ^ Ted Clarke: Doc makes splash at Citizen Iceman. ( Memento of February 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Prince George Citizen , February 8, 2009
- ^ André Botha: Karen Muir sterf. In: Rapport April 2, 2013, accessed April 4, 2013.
- ↑ Swemlegende, Karen Muir oorlede. In: Mossel Bay Advertiser April 4, 2013, accessed April 4, 2013.
- ^ André Botha: Karen Muir veg nou om hair lewe. ( Memento of February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Volksblad January 17, 2012, accessed April 4, 2013.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Muir, Karen |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muir de Graad, Karen |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African swimmer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kimberley |
DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 2013 |
Place of death | Mossel Bay |