Melanie Easter
Melanie Easter (born 28 November 1972) is a British paralympic swimmer, runner and more recently a cyclist. She represented the United Kingdom as a swimmer at the 1996 and 2000 Paralympic games. She won a gold and silver for events at the 1996 games in Atlanta, and gold, silver and bronze medals for at the Sydney Paralympics in 2000.[1] Additionally an accomplished runner, Easter took up cycling competitively in 2007,[2] and the following year competed in the World Triathlon Championships in Vancouver where she attained a gold.[3]
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| Born | 28 November 1972 Warwick, Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paralympic swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | S12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Easter grew up in the Warwickshire town of Kenilworth and attended Exhall Grange School, a school for visually impaired students near Coventry. Easter; the pink house at the school is named after her. She has a degree from the University of Birmingham.[3]
References
- "Melanie Easter - IPC Profile". International Paralympic Committee. 22 April 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Wilkinson, John (19 August 2007). "Swimming: Melanie taking a new track". Coventry Evening Telegraph. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- "Gold medal shock for Melanie in World Triathlon championships - Local". Kenilworth Weekly News. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
External links
- "Golds for Innes and Easter". BBC Sport. BBC. 23 October 2000. Retrieved 6 April 2012.