Melanie Schlanger

Melanie Renee Schlanger ( born August 31, 1986 in Nambour ) is an Australian freestyle swimmer.

Melanie Schlanger had her international breakthrough at the Pan Pacific Games in 2006. In Victoria, she won both the 100m and the 4x100m freestyle and 4x100m relay teams layers of the bronze medals. About 50 m was also fifth. At the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne she won swimmer from Brisbane with the 4x100m freestyle relay gold medal. In this discipline, she swam a year later at the 2008 Olympics along with Cate Campbell, Alice Mills and Lisbeth Trickett behind the squadrons from the Netherlands and the United States the bronze medal. Schlanger was part of the Australian season in Melbourne in 3:31,66 minutes set a world record 4 × 100 meter freestyle posted on September 2, 2007 at the Short Course, which has now, however, undercut twice by the Dutch squadron.

Even more successful than the 2008 Games ran the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Schlanger came to four stakes, winning three medals. First, they missed about 100-m freestyle in fourth place when still just a medal, then won with Alicia Coutts, Campbell and Brittany Elmslie as the final swimmer in Australia's 4x100m freestyle relay gold medal. In the relay, over twice the distance they had to surrender, only the U.S. squadron on the side of Bronte Barratt, Kylie Palmer and Coutts, Emily Seebohm well with, Leisel Jones and Coutts to the 100 -meter medley relay.

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