Melanie Skotnik

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Melanie Melfort on February 11, 2009 at the high jump meeting in Banská Bystrica (third with 1.95 m)

Melanie Melfort , née Skotnik (born November 8, 1982 in Hersbruck ) is a German - French high jumper .

Life

Melanie Melfort is the daughter of a German father and a French mother and has both nationalities.

Melfort has worked in Rouen since 2004, overseeing sporting events for the Normandy Region Events Office. She lived in Scheibenhard in Alsace in 2019 and works as a civil servant.

Athletic career

She started for the German Athletics Association until October 2004 , and has represented the French colors since March 6, 2005. Until 2004 she belonged to LAC Quelle Fürth-Munich-Würzburg , where she trained with Stanyslaus Olczik, after which she first joined Val-de-Reuil AC Vaudreuil until 2006 , first with Jean-Patrick Thirion and from March 2005 with Jimmy Melfort as coach, in 2006 finally Alsace Nord Athlétisme and for the 2006 season also the LG Domspitzmilch Regensburg . For the 2013 open-air season, she joined TSG 1862 Weinheim in order to be eligible to compete in the German championships. Until her marriage to her trainer, sprinter Jimmy Melfort , in July 2009, she competed under her maiden name Skotnik. At a height of 1.82 m, she weighs approximately 60 kg.

In 2013 she separated from Melfort. In 2016 she announced her retirement from professional sport.

successes

Melfort won the German high jump championship title in Ulm in 2003 at the age of 21. Her best performances up to 2004 in the DLV area were 1.91 m outdoors and 1.97 m indoors. In the 2004 season Melfort did not really get going, a benign pituitary tumor was identified as the cause and removed in August 2004. The tumor had impaired her performance and prevented her from qualifying for the Olympic Games in Athens. In the 2005 outdoor season, she built on previous performances and crossed two 1.95 m, first in June in Strasbourg and again in July in Almería . In August in Helsinki at the World Championships , she stayed with 1.88 m in the qualification below her possibilities. 2005 won the French championships indoors and outdoors. She repeated the indoor success in 2006, but could not improve it in the outdoor season and was operated on during the year after a meniscus injury . In return, she had an excellent season in 2007, and both of her best performances result from this year. Indoors she jumped on February 19, 2007 in Aubière with a French record 1.97 m and stopped her performance in Dortmund in February 2003, outdoors on August 18, 2007 in Castres with 1.96 m she set the 22-year-old French record by Maryse Éwanjé-Épée . For the first time in the final of major championships she jumped at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2007 and finished the competition with 1.92 m in sixth. When Blanka Vlašić won the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka in September , the French took seventh place with a jumped height of 1.94 m, which she had also crossed in qualifying. In 2007 she again won the French outdoor championship in Niort , as well as in 2008 and 2009. 2008 was again marked by injuries, but she was nominated for the 2008 Olympic Games because of her previous year's performance. Still handicapped, she jumped only 1.89 m in Beijing and failed in the qualification. At the end of the season - again without injury - she managed to jump over 1.95 m in Tomblaine .

After a good indoor season with a personal best of 1.96 m, achieved in Weinheim in February, and a 1.93 m jump outdoors, she qualified for the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. She managed 1.92 m both in the qualification and in the final, finishing ninth. In 2009 she became French champion again in Angers , in 2010 she repeated this success and won in Valence with a skipped 1.86 m ahead of Nina Manga . Her best performances this season were 1.89 m outdoors and 1.92 m indoors. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 she reached the final, where she finished ninth with 1.93 m. In 2013 she flopped in Ulm for the German runner-up behind Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Melanie Skotnik - Sport and job in harmony, Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft mbH - www.leichtathletik.de, Marc Kochan, 2011-01-08, 2004-12-02. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved May 5, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Interview with Melanie Skotnik , Scheiweda Blättel, issue 4 (June 2019), accessed on November 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ Cyril Pocréaux: L'athlète qui venait d'outre-Rhin ( French ) Fédération Française d'Athlétisme - athle.com. November 2004. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
  4. ↑ Spectacular move to Weinheim . TSG 1862 Weinheim - www.tsgla.de. May 2013. Archived from the original on June 17, 2013. Retrieved July 6, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b Melanie Skotnik - For France in flight, Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft mbH - www.leichtathletik.de, Christian Fuchs, 2011-01-08, 2007-03-05. Archived from the original on February 6, 2013 ; Retrieved May 5, 2015 .
  6. ↑ “Une nouvelle vie” , dna.fr, August 30, 2013, accessed on November 30, 2019.
  7. ↑ [1] , accessed November 30, 2019.
  8. ↑ Results High Jump Women, European Athletics - sportresult.com, 2011-01-08, 2007-03-03 (English). Archived from the original on February 2, 2013 ; Retrieved May 5, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Skotnik, Melanie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melfort, Melanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French high jumper
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Hersbruck