Melanie Buddemeyer
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Full name | Melanie Buddemeyer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Melanie Buddemeyer (born c. 1966)[1] is an American former competition swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 100-meter butterfly event at the 1982 World Aquatics Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador.[2]
In 1983 she received the Dial Award, which is given to an outstanding female American high-school athlete/scholar of the year.[3] She graduated from the Penn Hills High School in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania (class of 1984) and then from the University of North Carolina (1985–1989).[4] She also won medals in her signature 100-meter butterfly at the 1985 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships and 1985 World University Games.
References
- ^ Bill Bell (June 1982). TRACY CAULKINS: SHE'S NO. 1. Swimming World Magazine, p. 53
- ^ Melanie BUDDEMEYER. les-sports.info
- ^ WPIAL HALL OF FAME AND COURAGE AWARD 2011 INDUCTEES. wpial.org
- ^ Karen Kadilak (July 23, 1987). Melanie Buddemeyer rebounds from bad turn at World University Games. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Categories:
- 1966 births
- Living people
- American female butterfly swimmers
- North Carolina Tar Heels women's swimmers
- People from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Universiade medalists in swimming
- Universiade silver medalists for the United States
- American swimming biography stubs