Mélanie Robillard
Mélanie Robillard 
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| birthday | 3rd October 1982 (age 37) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Sussex, NB, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Canada Germany
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| Playing position | Alternate | ||||||||||||||||||
| Playing hand | right | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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| last change: March 29, 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||
Mélanie Robillard (born October 3, 1982 in Sussex , New Brunswick ) is a curler and currently lives in Brussels , Belgium .
Robillard, whose mother is German, was a substitute player ( Alternate ) for the German team at the 2008 World Curling Championships in Vernon, Canada . In order for Andrea Schöpp's team to participate in the World Cup , Robillard received German citizenship due to her German mother. She studied law at the Free University of Brussels . In addition to her native English and German, she is fluent in French.
In 2005, she had herself photographed naked for a calendar to promote the sport of women curling.
At the 2009 European Curling Championships in Aberdeen , Robillard was third in the team with Skip Andrea Schöpp , Second Monika Wagner , Lead Corinna Scholz , Alternate Stella Heiß and won the gold medal. The team finished third in the Round Robin. The page playoff game was won against Russia and the semifinals against Denmark. In the final they beat Switzerland 7: 5.
In February 2010 Robillard took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (Canada) as a member of the German team . The team took sixth place.
Robillard won the Curling World Championship on March 28, 2010 with the German team around Skip Andrea Schöpp . In Swift Current , Canada , the German team defeated Team Scotland around Skip Eve Muirhead with 8: 6 stones after an additional end.
In 2014 she competed for Spain at the European Women's Championship (C group) and the Mixed European Championship .
successes
- World Champion 2010
- European champion 2009
- Mixed European Champion 2008
- German champion 2009, 2010
- German mixed champion 2008, 2009
Web links
- Curling Team Schöpp
- Mélanie Robillard on Worldcurling.org (English)
- Mélanie Robillard in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ oglympics.com: Women of Curling (Fire on Ice) ( Memento from February 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Robillard, Mélanie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Robillard, Melanie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German curler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd October 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sussex (New Brunswick) , Canada |