Melanie Kok

Melanie Kok

Personal information
Full name	Melanie Kok
Nationality	Canada
Born	November 4, 1983 (1983-11-04) Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Height	5'6"
Weight	59 kg/130 lbs.
Sport
College/university team	University of Virginia
Club	Ridley Graduate Boat Club
Medal record 2008 Summer Olympic Games Bronze 2008 Beijing Lightweight Double Sculls (LW2x) World Rowing Championships Gold 2005 Kaizu Lightweight Quadruple Sculls (-LW4x) Bronze 2007 Munich Lightweight Single Sculls (LW1x) Pan American Games Silver 2011 Guadalajara Women's quad sculls (W4x)

Melanie Kok [pronounced "Cook"] (born November 4, 1983 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian rower. Kok won a bronze medal in the Women's Lightweight Double Sculls at the 2008 Olympic Games with partner Tracy Cameron.

University career

Kok earned a B.A. at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she rowed as a varsity athlete for each of her four years as an undergraduate. Kok, a two-time team captain at UVa, earned All-American honors twice (2006, 2007). She was also named to the All-South Region and All-ACC teams.

She completed her Master's degree in 2010 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in the MiNDS Graduate Neuroscience Program. She is currently a PhD student in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, also in the Neuroscience Graduate Program.

International career

Kok is a four-time member of the Canadian National Rowing team. She has won two World Rowing Championships medals: a gold in Gifu, JAP (2005) in the Lightweight Quadruple Sculls with Tracy Cameron, Mara Jones and Elizabeth Urbach, and a bronze in Munich, GER (2007) in the Lightweight Single Sculls.

She has also won two World Cup medals: a gold in Poznan, POL, and a bronze in Lucerne, SUI, both in 2008.

Kok competed at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China in the Women's Lightweight Doubles with partner Tracy Cameron and won a bronze medal.

Kok was named the City of St. Catharines Athlete of the Year in 2005, and again in 2008, as a co-winner with Olympic wrestler Tonya Verbeek.

During the 2011 Pan American Games, Kok won a silver medal as part of the women's quadruple sculls.

External links

• Profile at Rowing Canada
• Profile at Virginiasports.com
• MiNDS Graduates