Murielle Ahouré
Murielle Ahouré 
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 Ivory Coast
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| birthday | 23rd August 1987 (age 33) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 170 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 10.78 s ( 100 m ) 22.24 s ( 200 m ) |
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| Trainer | Allen Powell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Murielle Ahouré (born August 23, 1987 in Abidjan ) is an Ivorian sprinter.
Life
Ahouré moved from Abidjan to France when she was only two years old, and in 2000 her stepfather, a general in the Ivorian military, sent her family to Bristow, Virginia, to the USA because of lack of security. At the Secondary School in Alexandria , she then started with athletics. She trained for a total of three years under the coach Holsclaw. From September 2005 she studied at George Mason University . After having achieved good times on sprint courses indoors and in open-air competitions, she also started at larger US American meetings such as the NCAA Championships . In 2007, she improved her 60 meter best to 7.33 s, the 100 meter to 11.41 s and her 200 meter best time to 23.34 s. At the NCAA Championships , she made it into the semifinals for the first time, where she was injured, however, and thus could not start over the 200-meter distance. Her performance stagnated in 2008 until she moved to Miami at the end of the year to train with Amy Deen. Already in the indoor season she reported back with 7.17 s over 60 meters and with 22.80 s over 200 meters. Over this distance she also won the NCAA indoor title. On May 29 and 30, she broke the Ivory Coast national record over 100 meters with 11.14 s, then 11.09 s. At the NCAA Championships she was seventh over the shorter of her two courses and fourth over 200 meters with a new personal best of 22.78s. In December 2009 she finished her studies. In the following year she did not get any new improvements, after an injury in May she had to end her season early. She decided to move to Houston to work with Jamaican trainer Allen Powell. The year 2011 was marked by her third national record of 11.06 s on May 15 in Greensboro.
2012
She made her international debut at the 2012 Indoor World Championships in Istanbul. Over 60 meters she finished second behind Veronica Campbell-Brown with 7.04 seconds and thus won the Ivory Coast's first medal at an indoor World Cup. As a result of her success, she was invited to Abidjan by the Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara . Due to its growing popularity, it was able to start in Europe for the first time. Two more national records over 100 meters, 11.00 s in Rome and 22.42 s in Oslo , and further Diamond League participations were the result. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , she survived all heats and was seventh in the final with 11.00 s. She also made it into the final over 200 meters and came in sixth.
2013
On February 16, 2013, she won the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix ahead of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce . With 6.99 seconds she is now not only the seventh fastest woman over the distance, but also ran the African record. She also took the momentum of the indoor competitions outside with her. At the Golden Gala in Rome on June 6th, she set a new national record over 200 meters with 22.36 s, which she improved to 22.24 s on July 19 at Herculis in Monaco . She also continued to improve the national record over the 100 meter distance. In Sotteville-lès-Rouen she ran to victory with 10.91 s. She also came close to her best time at the Diamond League meetings in Oslo , Paris and London . At the World Championships in Moscow she won the silver medal with 10.93 seconds behind Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, as well as four days later over 200 meters, where she narrowly prevailed against the simultaneous Blessing Okagbare . She finished her season on August 29 with a second place in 22.66 s at Weltklasse Zürich .
In September she was made a “knight of national order” in Ivory Coast for her successes.
2014
After she had stayed just over the seven-second mark four times in the run-up, the World Indoor Championships in Sopot resulted in the expected duel between her and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce . In the final she was beaten by this with 7.01 s, Fraser-Pryce crossed the finish line after 6.98 s.
2016
On June 11th, she achieved a new personal best of 10.78 seconds in Montverde in good conditions, replacing Blessing Okagbare as the Africa record holder.
Personal best
| discipline | Time (s) | place | date |
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| 60 m | 6.99 | Birmingham , UK | 17th February 2013 |
| 100 m | 10.78 | Montverde , United States | June 11, 2016 |
| 200 m | 22.24 | Monaco | 19th July 2013 |
Web links
- Murielle Ahouré in the database of World Athletics (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Flash-News from September 23, 2013 (accessed on September 23, 2013)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ahouré, Murielle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ivorian sprinter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 23rd August 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abidjan |