Melanie Easter

Melanie Easter is a British paralympic swimmer, runner and more recently a cyclist. She represented the United Kingdom as a swimmer at the 1996 and 2000 Paralympic games. She won a gold and silver for events at the 1996 games in Atlanta, and gold, silver and bronze medals for at the Sydney Paralympics in 2000.[1] Additionally an accomplished runner, Easter took up cycling competitively in 2007,[2] and the following year competed in the World Triathlon Championships in Vancouver where she attained a gold.[3]

Melanie Easter
Personal information
BornWarwick, Great Britain
Sport
Country United Kingdom
SportParalympic swimming
Disability classS12
Medal record
Paralympic swimming
Representing  United Kingdom
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place1996 Atlanta400m freestyle B2
Gold medal – first place2000 Sydney400m freestyle S12
Silver medal – second place1996 Atlanta4x100m freestyle relay B1-3
Silver medal – second place2000 Sydney100m freestyle S12
Bronze medal – third place2000 Sydney200m individual medley SM12
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2002 Mar del Plata400m freestyle S12

Easter grew up in the Warwickshire town of Kenilworth and attended Exhall Grange School, a school for visually impaired students near Coventry. Easter; the pink house at the school is named after her. She has a degree from the University of Birmingham.[3]

References
  1. "Melanie Easter - IPC Profile". International Paralympic Committee. 22 April 2022.
  2. Wilkinson, John (19 August 2007). "Swimming: Melanie taking a new track". Coventry Evening Telegraph. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
  3. "Gold medal shock for Melanie in World Triathlon championships - Local". Kenilworth Weekly News. 16 June 2008. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
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