Melanie Schlanger

Melanie Schlanger
Personal information
Full name Melanie Renee Schlanger
Nickname(s) "Mel"
National team  Australia
Born 31 August 1986
Nambour, Queensland
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Commercial
Southport
Coach Glenn Baker

Melanie Renee Schlanger, OAM[1] (born 31 August 1986), also known by her married name Melanie Wright, is an Australian freestyle swimmer. She trains at Southport Olympic under Glenn Baker.

She was a member of the Australian 4×100-metre freestyle relay team that won gold at the 2007 World Championships.

At the 2008 Australian Swimming Championships she qualified as a member of the 4×100-metre and 4×200-metre freestyle relay teams by coming third and fifth in the respective individual events.

At the Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics, she swam the third leg in both the heats and the final of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay as Australia qualified sixth before claiming the bronze in the final. She swam in the heats of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay and collected a gold when the first-choice quartet won the final in a world record time.

Schlanger anchored the 4×100-meter freestyle relay team to overcome a late surge by the Netherlands to win the gold medal for Australia, the only gold medal for the Australian swimming team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Schlanger wed fellow Olympic swimmer Chris Wright in September 2014.

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References

  1. ↑ /search.cfm?aus_award_id=1140120&search_type=advanced&showInd=true "Schlanger, Melanie Renee". It's An Honour. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 26 January 2009.

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