Melanie Easter

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]

Melanie Easter

Personal information
Born	Warwick, Warwickshire, England
Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sport	Paralympic swimming
Disability class	S12
Medal record Women's paralympic swimming Representing  United Kingdom Paralympic Games 1996 Atlanta 400m freestyle B2 2000 Sydney 400m freestyle S12 1996 Atlanta 4x100m freestyle relay B1-3 2000 Sydney 100m freestyle S12 2000 Sydney 200m individual medley SM12 World Championships 2002 Mar del Plata 400m freestyle S12 Women's paratriathlon World Championships 2008 Vancouver AWAD PC6

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]