Melanie Schlanger
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| Full name | Melanie Renee Schlanger | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Mel" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Australia |
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| Born | 31 August 1986 Nambour, Queensland |
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| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Commercial SC, Southport SC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Glenn Baker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Melanie Renee Schlanger, OAM[1] (born 31 August 1986), also known by her married name Melanie Wright, is an Australian freestyle swimmer.
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Career
She was a member of the Australian 4×100-metre 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-metre and 4×200-metre freestyle relay teams by coming third and fifth in the respective individual events.
At the Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics, she swam the third leg in both the heats and the final of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay as Australia qualified sixth before claiming the bronze in the final. She swam in the heats of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay and collected a gold when the first-choice quartet won the final in a world record time.
Schlanger anchored the 4×100-metre freestyle relay team to overcome a late surge by the Netherlands to win the gold medal for Australia, the only gold medal for the Australian swimming team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Schlanger wed fellow Olympic swimmer Chris Wright in September 2014.
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay
References
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External links
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- 1986 births
- Australian people of German descent
- Australian female swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Living people
- Commercial Swimming Club swimmers
- People from Nambour, Queensland
- World record holders in swimming
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Female freestyle swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
