Mélina Robert-Michon

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Mélina Robert-Michon athletics

Mélina Robert-Michon (2016)
Mélina Robert-Michon in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro

nation FranceFrance France
birthday 18th July 1979 (age 41)
place of birth Voiron , France
size 180 cm
Weight 83 kg
Career
discipline Discus throw
Best performance 66.73 m Sport records icon NR.svg
society Lyon Athlétisme
Trainer Jérôme Simian, Serge Debié
National squad since 1998
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Mediterranean Games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Universiade 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
U23 European Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 66.73 m
IAAF logo World championships
silver Moscow 2013 66.28 m
bronze London 2017 66.21 m
EAA logo European championships
silver Zurich 2014 65.33 m
Mediterranean Games logo Mediterranean Games
gold Pescara 2009 61.17 m
Logo of the FISU Universiade
bronze Beijing 2001 58.04 m
EAA logo U23 European Championships
gold Amsterdam 2001 58.52 m
IAAF logo Junior World Championships
silver Annecy 1998 55.01 m
last change: August 15, 2017

Mélina Robert-Michon (born July 18, 1979 in Voiron ) is a French discus thrower .

Athletic career

The vice-junior world champion from 1998 qualified for the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , but was also eliminated from the qualification there as at the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton. In 2001 she became the U23 European champion and won bronze at the Universiade .

She was twelfth at the European Athletics Championships in 2002 and eleventh at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg, she did not get beyond the preliminary round again. An eleventh place at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka was followed by the finals and an eighth place at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. She won gold at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara. At the World Championships in Moscow in 2013 she was runner-up with a width of 66.28 m.

After Robert-Michon had only finished 10th at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with a width of 60.92 m, she won the silver medal behind the Croatian at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with a national record of 66.73 m Defending champion Sandra Perković (69.21 m).

From 2000 to 2009 she was national champion ten times in a row.

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