Melanie Easter 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 | Warwick, Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Paralympic swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | S12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 edit
- ^ "Melanie Easter - IPC Profile". International Paralympic Committee. 22 April 2022.
- ^ Wilkinson, John (19 August 2007). "Swimming: Melanie taking a new track". Coventry Evening Telegraph. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ a b "Gold medal shock for Melanie in World Triathlon championships - Local". Kenilworth Weekly News. 16 June 2008. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
External links edit
- "Golds for Innes and Easter". BBC Sport. BBC. 23 October 2000. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
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