Melanie Easter
British Paralympic swimmer
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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]
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| Born | Warwick, Warwickshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Paralympic swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | S12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
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