AHOURE Murielle

Date of Birth: 23 Aug 1987

Age: 33

Gender: Female

Place of birth: ABIDJAN

Birth Country:

Côte d'Ivoire

Place of residence : OSLO

Residence Country:

Norway

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's 100m

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 100m Round 1 - Heat 1	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 100m Semi-Final 3	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100m	200m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	SF (11.01)	SF (22.59)
2012	London, GBR	7th (11.00)	6th (22.57)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	100m	200m
2019	Doha, QAT	5th (11.02)	-
2017	London, GBR	4th (10.98)	-
2015	Beijing, CHN	SF (10.98)	-
2013	Moscow, RUS	2nd (10.93)	2nd (22.32)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	100m	200m
2019	1 x 6th	-
2018	2 x 1st, 3 x 2nd, 1 x 4th	1 x 5th
2017	1 x 4th, 1 x 5th, 1 x 9th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2018	100m	Zurich, SUI	11.01
1	2018	100m	Oslo, NOR	10.91
1	2017	200m	Stockholm, SWE	22.68
2	2018	100m	Monaco, MON	11.01
2	2018	100m	Stockholm, SWE	11.03
2	2018	100m	Eugene, OR, USA	10.90
2	2017	200m	Oslo, NOR	22.74
4	2018	100m	Doha, QAT	10.96
4	2017	100m	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	11.10
5	2018	200m	Rabat, MAR	22.70
5	2017	100m	Shanghai, CHN	11.22

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
9	2021	100m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Boston, MA, USA	11.44

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2018	200m	World Challenge	Ostrava, CZE	22.60

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	60m
2018	Birmingham, GBR	1st (6.97)

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Travelling, cooking, trying new foods. (Wanda Diamond League YouTube channel, 21 Jul 2018)

Occupation:

Law - University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA

Languages spoken:

English, French

Sporting relatives:

Her stepfather, Mathias Doue, has served as Chief of Staff of the Ivorian army. (abidjantv.net, 24 Mar 2017)

After the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, People's Republic of China, she had a fracture in her left knee and was out of action for eight months. She competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro but had to stop again afterwards for nine months. (lebabi.net, 16 May 2016; SportsDeskOnline, 06 May 2016; jeuneafrique.com, 11 Sep 2017; linfodrome.com, 17 Apr 2019)

She took up athletics in her second year at Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria, VA, United States of America. (IAAF, 04 Mar 2014)

After joining a new school her guidance counsellor suggested she join a team as a way to make new friends, and introduced her to athletics coach TD Holsclaw. (IAAF, 04 Mar 2014)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Outside of sport she hopes to help young children in Cote d'Ivoire by opening a sport and education facility "to give young people in need the chance to learn a job". (news.educarriere.ci, 12 Oct 2018; africatopsports.com, 03 Sep 2018)

US sprinter and bobsleigher Lauryn Williams. (eurosport.fr, 01 Jun 2012)

She was Cote d'Ivoire's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (afrique-sur7.fr, 12 Jul 2017; rfi.fr, 04 Aug 2016)

She was named 2013 Sportsperson of the Year in Cote d'Ivoire. (IAAF, 04 Mar 2014)

She was named Knight of the Order of Sports Merit by the Ivorian government in 2012. (rti.ci, 14 Mar 2012)

General Interest

General
HARD TIMES
She struggled with the death of her stepfather in March 2017, and said that it was only after she won gold at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England, that she felt she had moved on. "The past two years have been difficult. My dad was battling with cancer and he passed away last year [2017]. I went into a depression, it was tough to train. It was hard to get my mojo back. But after going through the grieving process for almost a year I feel better and I can speak about him. I just went into this [world indoor championship] race, I prayed to him and God. It was like, 'finally', I was so happy and a world champion." (Nuffin' Long Athletics YouTube channel, 02 Mar 2018; abidjantv.net, 24 Mar 2017)

LIVING ABROAD
She moved from Cote d'Ivoire to France before she was age three. She has also lived in the People's Republic of China, Japan and Germany, and spent time living in Bristow, VA, United States of America, from age 14. (IAAF, 04 Mar 2014)

Milestones

In 2018 she became the first athlete representing Cote d'Ivoire to win a gold medal at the world indoor championships, when she claimed gold in the 60m in Birmingham, England. In 2012 she had become the first athlete representing Cote d'Ivoire to win a medal of any colour at the world indoor championships when she claimed silver in the 60m in Istanbul, Turkey. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 May 2020)

In 2013 she became the first athlete representing Cote d'Ivoire to win a medal of any colour at the world championships when she claimed silver in the 100m in Moscow, Russian Federation. (SportsDeskOnline, 11 Mar 2012)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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