Melanie Marshall

Melanie Jayne Marshall MBE (born 12 January 1982) is a former British swimmer. She has won numerous medals for her country as well as being a swimming coach of the year for her work with Adam Peaty in Derby and later Loughborough.

Melanie Marshall
MBE
Personal information
Full nameMelanie Jayne Marshall
NationalityBritish
Born (1982-01-12) 12 January 1982
Boston, England
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, backstroke
ClubLoughborough University
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place 2001 Fukuoka 4×100 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Silver medal – second place2008 Manchester 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2008 Manchester 4×100 m freestyle
European Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2006 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2008 Eindhoven 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Budapest 200 m backstroke
European Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2003 Dublin 200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2004 Vienna 200 m freestyle
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place2002 Manchester[1]4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2006 Melbourne200 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place2006 Melbourne4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place2006 Melbourne4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2006 Melbourne4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2006 Melbourne[2]200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place2006 Melbourne100 m backstroke

Early life

She was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, brought up in the nearby village of Wrangle. She attended the Giles School in Old Leake.

Career

A long lasting international career started at the 1995 European Youth Olympics in Bath, where she won four gold medals.

Marshall was ranked number one in the world in 2004 after breaking the British 200 m freestyle record to ensure selection to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

At the 2008 Short Course World Championships in Manchester, she came third as part of the British women's 4×100 m freestyle relay team.

Marshall claimed six medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne,[3] and is currently the second most decorated female athlete ever. Marshall ended her swimming career at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

She is a three times winner of the ASA National British 100 metres freestyle title (2002, 2004 and 2005), the 400 metres freestyle champion in 2004 and 2005 and the 50 metres backstroke winner in 1998.[4]

On 30 October 2008, Marshall announced her retirement from the sport.[5] She was the head coach at City of Derby Swimming Club, where she first began coaching Commonwealth, European, World and Olympic champion Adam Peaty when he was twelve. In 2014 she was International swim coach of the year.[3] Marshall has also worked as a coach with the British swimming team and has been named as an elite coach by UK Sport.[6] In 2016 Marshall and Peaty both left City of Derby to join the Loughborough National Swimming centre.[7] as lead coach.[8]

Marshall was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to swimming and charity.[9]

Personal life

She currently resides in Loughborough with her three dogs, Missy, Jetson and Rhonda, sadly Missy and Jetson no longer here. She is 1.7 m (5′ 7″), 62 kg.

See also

References
  1. "BBC Sport Commonwealth Games 2002 Statistics". BBC News. Retrieved 29 August 2007.
  2. "Swimming Schedule and Results". Archived from the original on 11 August 2007. Retrieved 22 August 2007.
  3. "International Swim Coach of the Year: Melanie Marshall". Swimming World News. 28 December 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  4. ""For the Record." Times, 13 July 1998, p. 39". The Times. 13 July 1998. p. 39.
  5. "Marshall brings inspirational career to and end". British Swimming. 30 October 2008. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2008.
  6. "City of Derby coach Mel Marshall tells rising star Adam Peaty he can compete against top Euro men". Derby Telegraph. 11 December 2013. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  7. Bell, Mandy (15 November 2016). "MANDY BELL NAMED CITY OF DERBY HEAD COACH, AS MEL MARSHALL MOVES ON". Swim Swam. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  8. "Mel Marshall Moves To Head Lougborough In British Swimming Restructure". SwimSwam. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  9. "No. 63377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2021. p. B20.
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