Helene Muller
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| Full name | Karina Helene Muller | |||||||||||||||
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 South Africa
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| Born |
25 April 1978 Pretoria, South Africa |
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| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Nebraska (U.S.) | |||||||||||||||
| Coach | Cal Bentz (U.S.) | |||||||||||||||
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Karina Helena Muller (also Helene Muller, born April 25, 1978) is a South African former swimmer, who specialized in sprint and middle-distance freestyle events. She represented South Africa in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000), and later captured two silver medals each in sprint freestyle and medley relay at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
While studying in the United States, Muller played for the Nebraska Cornhuskers swimming and diving team, under head coach Cal Bentz, at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska. She also received thirteen All-American honors, and earned a bronze medal in the 200-yard freestyle (1:46.97) at the 2000 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Muller made her first South African team, as an eighteen-year-old junior, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There, she failed to reach the top 16 final in any of her individual events, finishing thirty-third in the 100 m freestyle (57.98), and thirtieth in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.59). In the 4×100 m medley relay, Muller, along with Marianne Kriel, Penny Heyns, and Mandy Loots, finished fourth with a time of 4:08.16, almost a full second off the podium.
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