Melanie Schlanger

Melanie Renée Schlanger (born August 31, 1986 in Nambour ) is an Australian freestyle swimmer.

Melanie Schlanger had her international breakthrough at the 2006 Pan Pacific Games. In Victoria she won the bronze medals in both the 100 m and the 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m individual medals. She also finished fifth over 50 m. At the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne , she was able to win the gold medal as a swimmer from Brisbane with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. In this discipline she swam a year later at the Olympic Games 2008 together with Cate Campbell , Alice Mills and Lisbeth Trickett behind the relays from the Netherlands and the USA the bronze medal. Schlanger was part of the Australian relay, which on September 2, 2007 in Melbourne in 3: 31.66 minutes achieved a world record over 4 × 100 meters freestyle on the short course, which has now been beaten twice by the Dutch relay.

Even more successful than the 2008 Games ran the 2012 Olympic Games of London . Schlanger came to four missions and won three medals. First she just missed a medal in the 100m freestyle in fourth place, then won the gold medal with Alicia Coutts , Campbell and Brittany Elmslie as the final swimmer in the Australian 4 × 100m freestyle relay. In the season over the double distance she had to admit defeat only the US season alongside Bronte Barratt , Kylie Palmer and Coutts, as did Emily Seebohm , Leisel Jones and Coutts with the 100 m individual medley relay.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , Schlanger won the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay together with Bronte Campbell , Cate Campbell and Emma McKeon . They set a new world record with 3: 30.98 minutes.

Web links

• Melanie Schlanger in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait on the website of the IOC ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )