Melanie Seeger

Melanie Seeger
Personal information
Born January 8, 1977
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
Weight 56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Country  Germany
Sport Athletics
Event(s) 20km Race Walk

Melanie Seeger (born 8 January 1977 in Brandenburg an der Havel) is a German race walker. She has represented Germany at the Summer Olympics on three occasions (2004, 2008 and 2012). She has also competed at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics on four occasions and walked at four consecutive editions of the European Athletics Championships.

She holds the German record for the indoor 3000 m walk.[1]

She took time away from athletics in 2009 to give birth to her first child, Helena. She returned to competition in 2010 and she had the best championship performance of her career at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, finishing fourth in the 20 kilometres race walk behind a Russian sweep of medalists.[2]

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
1998 European Championships Budapest, Hungary DNF 10 km
1999 World Championships Seville, Spain 33rd 20 km
2000 European Race Walking Cup Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany 34th 20 km
2001 European Race Walking Cup Dudince, Slovakia 15th 20 km
World Championships Edmonton, Canada 7th 20 km
2002 European Championships Munich, Germany 14th 20 km
2003 World Championships Paris, France 8th 20 km
2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 5th 20 km
World Race Walking Cup Naumburg, Germany 9th 20 km
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 11th 20 km
2006 European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 10th 20 km
2007 World Championships Osaka, Japan 14th 20 km
2008 World Race Walking Cup Cheboksary, Russia 15th 20 km
Olympic Games Beijing, PR China 22nd 20 km
2010 European Championships Barcelona, Spain 4th 20 km
2012 Olympic Games London, Great Britain 19th 20 km

References

  1. ↑ Deutsche record. DLV. Retrieved on 2010-11-10.
  2. ↑ Germany's Seeger still finds Barcelona 'unbelievable'. European Athletics (2010-11-09). Retrieved on 2010-11-10.

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