- Melanie Paschke
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Melanie Paschke (born 29 June 1970 in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay.
Her personal best time in the 100 metres is 11.04 seconds, achieved in June 1995 in Bremen. This places her tenth on the German all-time list, behind Marlies Göhr, Marita Koch, Silke Gladisch, Katrin Krabbe, Heike Drechsler, Bärbel Wöckel, Annegret Richter, Romy Müller, Monika Hamann, Inge Helten and Ingrid Auerswald.[1]
She competed for the clubs LG Braunschweig and TV Wattenscheid 01 during her active career.
Achievements
Year Competition Venue Position Notes Representing 
Germany1993 World Championships Stuttgart, Germany 5th 4x100 m relay 1994 European Indoor Championships Paris, France 3rd 60 m European Championships Helsinki, Finland 3rd 100 m 1st 4x100 m relay World Cup London, England 2nd 4x100 m relay 1995 World Indoor Championships Barcelona, Spain 2nd 60 m World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 6th 100 m 4th 200 m 3rd 4x100 m relay Universiade Fukuoka, Japan 1st 100 m 1997 World Championships Athens, Greece 6th 100 m 4th 4x100 m relay 1998 European Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 1st 60 m 2nd 200 m European Championships Budapest, Hungary 3rd 200 m 2nd 4x100 m relay World Cup Johannesburg, South Africa 6th 200 m 2001 World Championships Athens, Greece 1st 4x100 m relay 2002 European Championships Munich, Germany 5th 100 m[2] 2nd 4x100 m relay World Cup Madrid, Spain 6th 100 m References
- IAAF profile for Melanie Paschke
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
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European Champions in Women's 4 x 100 m relay 1938: Germany (Kohl, Krauß, Albus, Kühnel) • 1946: Netherlands (van der Kade-Koudijs, Witziers-Timmer, Adema, Blankers-Koen) • 1950: Great Britain (Hay, Desforges, Hall, Foulds) • 1954: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Uliskina, Itkina, Turova) • 1958: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Kepp, Polyakova, Maslovskaya) • 1962: Poland (Ciepły, Sobotta, Szyroka, Piątkowska) • 1966: Poland (Bednarek, Straszynska, Kirszenstein, Kłobukowska) • 1969: East Germany (Höfer, Meissner, Podeswa, Vogt) • 1971: West Germany (Schittenhelm, Helten, Irrgang, Mickler) • 1974: East Germany (Maletzki, Stecher, Heinich, Eckert) • 1978: Soviet Union (Anisimova, Maslakova, Kondratyeva, Storoshkova) • 1982: East Germany (Walther, Eckert, Rieger, Göhr) • 1986: East Germany (Gladisch, Rieger, Brestrich-Auerswald, Göhr) • 1990: East Germany (Möller, Krabbe, Behrendt, Günther) • 1994: Germany (Paschke, Knoll, Zipp, Lichtenhagen) • 1998: France (Benth, Bangué, Félix, Arron) • 2002: France (Combe, Hurtis, Félix, Sidibé) • 2006: Russia (Gushchina, Rusakova, Khabarova, Grigoryeva) • 2010: Ukraine (Povh, Pohrebnyak, Ryemyen, Bryzhina)
Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 100 m 1959: Giuseppina Leone (ITA) • 1961: Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) • 1963: Renate Lace (URS) • 1965: Irena Kirszenstein (POL) • 1967: Barbara Ferrell (USA) • 1970: Renate Meissner (GDR) • 1973: Mona-Lisa Pursiainen (FIN) • 1975: Lyudmila Maslakova (URS) • 1977: Lyudmila Storozhkova (BUL) • 1979: Marlies Göhr (GDR) • 1981: Beverley Goddard (GBR) • 1983: Bev Kinch (GBR) • 1985: Irina Slyusar (URS) • 1987: Gwen Torrence (USA) • 1989: Liliana Allen (CUB) • 1991: Chryste Gaines (USA) • 1993: Dahlia Duhaney (JAM) • 1995: Melanie Paschke (GER) • 1997: Ekaterini Thanou (GRE) • 1999: Angela Williams (USA) • 2001: Abiodun Oyepitan (GBR) • 2003: Qin Wangping (CHN) • 2005: Olga Khalandyreva (RUS) • 2007: Johanna Manninen (FIN) • 2009: Lina Grinčikaitė (LTU) • 2011: Carrie Russell (JAM)
Categories:- 1970 births
- Living people
- People from Braunschweig
- German sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Germany
- German athletics biography stubs
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