- Melanie Marshall
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Melanie Marshall Personal information Full name Melanie Marshall Nationality British Born 12 January 1982
Boston, EnglandSport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Freestyle, backstroke Club Loughborough University SC College team Loughborough University Medal recordWomen's swimming Competitor for 
Great BritainWorld Championships (LC) Silver 2001 Fukuoka 4×100 m freestyle World Championships (SC) Silver 2008 Manchester 4×200 m freestyle Bronze 2008 Manchester 4×100 m freestyle European Championships (LC) Gold 2006 Budapest 4×100 m medley Silver 2008 Eindhoven 4×200 m freestyle Bronze 2006 Budapest 200 m backstroke European Championships (SC) Gold 2003 Dublin 200 m freestyle Silver 2004 Vienna 200 m freestyle Competitor for 
EnglandCommonwealth Games Silver 2006 Melbourne 200 m backstroke Silver 2006 Melbourne 4×100 m medley Silver 2006 Melbourne 4×100 m freestyle Silver 2006 Melbourne 4×200 m freestyle Silver 2002 Manchester[1] 4×100 m freestyle Bronze 2006 Melbourne[2] 200 m freestyle Bronze 2006 Melbourne 100 m backstroke Melanie Marshall (born 12 January 1982) is a former British swimmer.
Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, brought up in Wrangle and currently residing in Loughborough with her two dogs, Missy and Jetson, she is 1.7 m (5′ 7″), 62 kg. A long lasting international career started at the 1995 European Youth Olympics in Bath, where she won four gold medals.
Melanie was ranked number one in the world in 2004 after breaking the British 200 m freestyle record to ensure selection to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
At the 2008 Short Course World Championships in Manchester, she came third as part of the British women's 4×100 m freestyle relay team.
Melanie claimed six medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, the most decorated female athlete ever at one Games for England, in any sport and ended her swimming career at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Melanie often cites her friends, the Upstairs Massive, and her family as part of the recipe for her success.
On 30 October 2008, Marshall announced her retirement from the sport.[3] She is currently the head coach at City of Derby Swimming Club.
External links
- British Swimming athlete profile
- British Olympic Association athlete profile
- 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games athlete profile
References
- ^ "BBC Sport Commonwealth Games 2002 Statistics". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/commonwealthgames2002/bsp/statistics/results.stm. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
- ^ "Swimming Schedule and Results". http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Schedule+and+Results/By+Sport/Aquatics%20Swimming. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
- ^ "Marshall brings inspirational career to and end". British Swimming. 2008-10-30. http://www.sportcentric.com/vsite/vcontent/content/news/0,10869,5157-183729-200947-40069-291192-news-item,00.html. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
European Champions in Women's 4×100 m Medley Relay 1958: Netherlands (De Nijs, Den Haan, Voorbij, Gastelaars) • 1962: East Germany (Schmidt, Göbel, Noack, Pechstein) • 1966: Netherlands (Sikkens, G. Kok, A. Kok, Beumer) • 1970: East Germany (Hofmeister, Schuchardt, Lindner, Wetzko) • 1974: East Germany (Richter, Vogel, Kother, Ender) • 1977: East Germany (Richter, Nitschke, Pollack, Krause) • 1981: East Germany (Kleber, Geweniger, Geißler, Metschuck) • 1983: East Germany (Kleber, Geweniger, Geißler, Meineke) • 1985: East Germany (Weigang, Gerasch, Gressler, Friedrich) • 1987: East Germany (Otto, Hörner, Weigang, Stellmach) • 1989: East Germany (Otto, Bornike, Jacob, Meißner) • 1991: Soviet Union (Krupskaya, Roudkovskaya, Kononenko, Yermakova) • 1993: Germany (Völker, Gerasch, Ustrowski, Van Almsick) • 1995: Germany (Rund, Dörries, Voitowitch, Van Almsick) • 1997: Germany (Buschschulte, Gerasch, Meißner, Völker) • 1999: Sweden (Alshammar, Östling, Sjöberg, Svahnström) • 2000: Sweden (Alshammar, Igelström, Sjöberg, Jöhncke) • 2002: Germany (Buschschulte, Weiler, Van Almsick, Völker) • 2004: France (Manaudou, Thomassin, Mongel, Metella) • 2006: Great Britain (Marshall, Balfour, Dunning, Halsall) • 2008: Great Britain (Simmonds, Haywood, Lowe, Halsall) • 2010: Great Britain (Spofforth, Haywood, Halsall, Smith)
European Short Course Champions in Women's 200 m Freestyle 1996 – 2001: Martina Moravcová (SVK) • 2002: Alena Popchanka (BLR) • 2003: Melanie Marshall (GBR) • 2004: Josefin Lillhage (SWE) • 2005: Josefin Lillhage (SWE) & Federica Pellegrini (ITA) • 2006: Alena Popchanka (FRA) • 2007: Josefin Lillhage (SWE) • 2008 – 2009: Federica Pellegrini (ITA) • 2010: Femke Heemskerk (NED)
Categories:- 1982 births
- English swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Living people
- People from Boston, Lincolnshire
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Alumni of Loughborough University
- Female freestyle swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- English sportspeople stubs
- British swimming biography stubs
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