Melissa Gorman

Melissa Gorman (born December 11, 1985 in Sydney ) is an Australian swimmer . She competes in the long distances in the swimming pool as well as in the open water . Her greatest success in open water is the 2009 world championship title over 5 km; In the pool, she was Australian champion several times and achieved bronze at the 2004 Short Course World Championships and silver in the 800 m freestyle at the 2006 Commonwealth Games .

At the Olympic swimming competitions in 2008 she took part in both the pool and open water competitions; She failed over 800 m in the pool as a total of 17th in the preliminary run, in the 10 km open water race she was 15th. In 2010 she won the bronze medal in the 800 m freestyle at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi . At the 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai , she won the silver medal in the new team competition over five kilometers in 57: 01.8 min 1.2 s behind the USA (57: 00.6) and 42.4 s ahead of Germany (57: 44.2, with Isabelle Härle , Thomas Lurz and Jan Wolfgarten ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cooke retains 800m freestyle gold , BBC Sport Bulletin, March 19, 2006.
2. ↑ Melissa Gorman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
3. ↑ "USA trio capture first medal in World Championships with victory in 5 km team event" ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , FINA report on the team competition in Shanghai