Melanie Melfort
Melanie Melfort, born Skotnik ( born November 8, 1982 in Hersbruck ) is a Franco-German high jumper.
Melanie Melfort is the daughter of a German father and a French mother and has both nationalities. She launched until October 2004 for the German Athletics Federation since March 6, 2005, she represents the French colors. Until 2004 it belonged to the LAC Quelle Fürth -Munich and Würzburg, where she trained at Stanyslaus Olczik, after which they joined up in 2006 initially Val -de- Reuil AC Vaudreuil at first with Jean- Patrick Thirion and as of March 2005 with Jimmy Melfort as a coach, in 2006 finally Alsace North Athlétisme and for the 2006 season and the LG Domspitzmilch Regensburg. For the outdoor season in 2013, she joined the TSG Weinheim 1862, to obtain the start authorization for the German Championships. Up to her marriage with her trainer, the Sprinter Jimmy Melfort, in July 2009 she appeared on under her birth name Skotnik. At a height of 1.82 m, it weighs about 60 kg.
Melfort won in 2003 as a 21 -year-old in Ulm, the German champion in the high jump. Your bests to 2004 in the area of DLV were outdoors at 1.91 m and 1.97 m in the hall. During the 2004 season Melfort did not really take off, a benign tumor of the pituitary gland has been identified as the cause and removed in August 2004. The tumor had affected their performance and prevented their qualification for the Olympic Games in Athens. In the outdoor season 2005, they followed up on previous achievements and crossed twice 1.95m, first in June in Strasbourg and again in July in Almería. In August in Helsinki at the World Championships, she was 1.88 m in qualifications among their options. 2005 won at the French Championships in the indoor and outdoor. The hall success they repeated in 2006, but could in the outdoor season and no further increase was operated during the year after a meniscus injury. But they had an excellent 2007 season, their best performances both result from this year. In the hall she jumped on 19 February 2007 in Aubière 1.97 m French record, and placed the power in February 2003 in Dortmund, outdoor she put on August 18, 2007 in Castres with 1.96 m of the 22 -year-old French record of Maryse Éwanjé - Épée one. For the first time in the final major championships, she jumped at the Indoor Athletics European Championships in 2007 and finished the competition with 1.92 m in sixth. When Blanka Vlasic of victory at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka in September 2007, the French occupied the shared seventh place with a skipped height of 1.94 m, which they had crossed in the qualification. In 2007 she won the French championship in Niort again outdoors, as well as 2008 and 2009. 2008 was marked again by injuries, but it was nominated because of their previous year's performance for the 2008 Olympic Games. Still handicapped, she jumped in Beijing only 1.89m and failed so in qualifying. At the end of the season - again without injury - she succeeded in Tomblaine one more jump than 1.95 m.
After a good indoor season with a personal best of 1.96 meters, achieved in February in Weinheim, and a jump of 1.93 m outdoors, qualified for the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009. She managed both in qualifying and in the final 1.92 m and thus finished ninth. In 2009 she was in Angers again French champion, 2010, she repeated this success and won in Valence with skipped 1.86 m in front of Nina manga. Your best performances this season were at 1.89 m and 1.92 m in the open air in the hall. At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, she reached the final, but could there not qualify for the round of the last eight. 2013, it flopped in Ulm for the German runner-up behind Marie- Laurence Jungfleisch.
Melfort has worked since 2004 in Rouen, where she cared for sporting events for the event office of the Normandy region.