Melanie Robillard
 Melanie Robillard at the 2010 Winter Olympics |
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| Born | 3 October 1982 Sussex |
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| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Curling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | SC Riessersee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Melanie Robillard (born October 3, 1982 in Sussex, New Brunswick) is a curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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[edit] Career
She curled for Jenn Hanna's team in 2000 as her lead. They would lose in the provincial junior finals that year. In 2002, Robillard skipped her own team to the provincial junior finals, but lost.[1] Robillard, who has a German mother, officially played alternate for the German team at the 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, but ended up playing second for seven of the eleven matches. Later on in the year, she played lead for the German mixed team that won the gold medal at the 2008 European Mixed Curling Championship.[2] She competed on the German women's teams, skipped by Andrea Schöpp, as second in the 2010 Winter Olympics, and as third in the 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, which they won.[3][4]
In 2011, she coached both the Spanish men's and women's teams at the European Curling Championships.
[edit] Personal life
She is currently studying law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She speaks French, English, German and Spanish.[5]
In 2005, Robillard posed nude for a calendar to promote women's curling.[6]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Melanie Robillard on the World Curling Federation database
[edit] References
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- Curlers from Ontario
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