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Melanie Easter

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Melanie Easter is a British Paralympic swimmer, runner and more recently cyclist who represented the United Kingdom as a swimmer at the 1996 and 2000 Paralympic Games. She won a gold and a silver at Atlanta in 1996 and a gold, a silver and a bronze at Sydney in 2000. An accomplished runner, she took up cycling competitively in 2007 and the following year attained a gold at the World Triathlon Championships in Vancouver. She grew up in Kenilworth in Warwickshire and attended Exhall Grange School, a school for visually impaired students near Coventry. Her English Wikipedia article gives no birth date.

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Female 1
Medals or Titles Band
2-4 1
Gold Medals
2 1
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Para or Adaptive 1
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Melanie Easter is a British paralympic swimmer, runner and more recently a cyclist.
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    She represented the United Kingdom as a swimmer at the 1996 and 2000 Paralympic games.
  • Lead, competition category
    Melanie Easter is a British paralympic swimmer, runner and more recently a cyclist.
  • Lead, gold medals
    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.
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