Melanie Schlanger

Melanie Schlanger

Personal information
Full name	Melanie Renee Schlanger
Nationality	Australia
Born	August 31, 1986 (1986-08-31) (age 25) Nambour, Queensland
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for  Australia Olympic Games Gold 2008 Beijing 4x200 m freestyle Bronze 2008 Beijing 4x100 m freestyle World Championships Gold 2007 Melbourne[1] 4 x 100 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships Bronze 2006 Victoria 100 m freestyle Bronze 2006 Victoria 4x100 m freestyle Bronze 2006 Victoria 4x100 m medley

Melanie Renee Schlanger OAM^[2] (born 31 August 1986 in Nambour) is an Australian freestyle swimmer. She trains at the Commercial Swimming Club under Stephan Widmar.

She was a member of the Australian 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team that won gold at the 2007 World Championships.

At the 2008 Australian Swimming Championships she qualified as a member of the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay teams by coming third and fifth in the respective individual events.

She swam the third leg in both the heats and the final of the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay as Australia qualified sixth before claiming the bronze in the final. She swam in the heats of the longer relay and collected a gold when the first-choice quartet won the final in a world record time.

References

1. ^ "12th FINA World Championships". Archived from the original on 2007-06-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20070606111744/http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Melbourne_2007/results/swimming.php. Retrieved 2007-06-09. 
2. ^ "Schlanger, Melanie Renee". It's An Honour. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. http://itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1140120&search_type=advanced&showInd=true. Retrieved 26 January 2009. 

Persondata
Name	Schlanger, Melanie
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Date of birth	31 August 1986
Place of birth	Nambour, Queensland
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