Melinda Gainsford-Taylor

Maree Melinda Gainsford -Taylor ( born October 1, 1971 in Narromine ) is a former Australian athlete who was an international success in the 1990s as a sprinter.

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 she won the Australian 4 x 100 - meter relay team to sixth place. In the 200 - meter race she reached the semi-finals, in the 100 -meter run the quarter-final round. Their first international medal winning 13 times the Australian Champion at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Toronto. With a time of 22.73 s, she took the 200 - meter race in second place behind the Russian Irina Priwalowa. About the same distance won Gainsford -Taylor at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria in 1994 the bronze medal. There they took also the silver medal with the Australian 4 x 100 - meter relay.

In 1995, Gainsford -Taylor in oceanic indoor record time of 22.64 s the title in the 200 - meter race at the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Barcelona. In the same year she won at the World Athletics Championships in Gothenburg together with Lee Naylor, Renee Poetschka and Cathy Freeman the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 - meter relay. About 100 m and 200 m Gainsford -Taylor reached the semi-finals respectively.

At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, it reached the 200 -meter run again the semifinal round. With the 4 x 400 meters relay she was eliminated in the first round. The following year she made at the World Championships in Athens over 200 meters into the finals and finished at the end of the seventh. In 1998, she missed on the same distance at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur unhappy a medal when she lying crashed into the lead just before the finish.

The end of her international career, she competed in the 2000 Olympics in their homeland in Sydney in four disciplines. While they missed the finals in the 100 - meter dash and the 4 x 100 - meter relay team, she won the 200 - meter race in fifth place and with the 4 x 400 - meter relay in Ozeanienrekordzeit of 3: 23,81 min fourth place.

Melinda Gainsford -Taylor is 1,72 m tall and had a competition weight of 67 kg. She is married and has two children. The swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Josh Watson is her cousin.

Bests

  • Free air: 100 m: 11.12 s ( AR), July 31, 1994, Sestriere
  • 200 m: 22.23 s ( AR), July 13, 1997, Stuttgart
  • 400 m: 51.73 s, July 22, 2000, Brisbane
  • 60 m: 7.36 s, March 12, 1993, Toronto
  • 200 m: 22.64 s ( AR), March 10, 1995 Barcelona
1995 World Championships in Athletics 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships 1994 Commonwealth Games 4 × 100 metres relay Irina Privalova Lee Naylor (athlete) 4 × 400 metres relay 1997 World Championships in Athletics 1998 Commonwealth Games
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