- Melanie Valerio
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Melanie Valerio Personal information Born 1969 Medal recordWomen's swimming Competitor for the 
United StatesOlympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta 4x100 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships Gold 1993 Kobe 4x100 m freestyle Gold 1995 Atlanta 4x100 m freestyle Gold 1995 Atlanta 4x200 m freestyle Gold 1997 Fukuoka 4x100 m freestyle Melanie Valerio, born May 7, 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is a United States swimmer, who graduated from Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio and the University of Virginia.
Valerio won a gold medal as a member of the winning 4 x 100 Freestyle Relay team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
Valerio races Ironman and is an elite age-group member of the Timex Multisport Team. She often blogs her races and training for Timex.[1]. She has also secured the first ever Cheap Trick custom-built bike. Melanie can be found in women's magazines offering fitness and training tips.
References
1996 USA Olympic Swimming Team Men's Team Ryan Berube • Brad Bridgewater • Carlton Bruner • Greg Burgess • Ray Carey • Josh Davis • Tom Dolan • David Fox • Kurt Grote • Gary Hall, Jr. • John Hargis • Mark Henderson • Joe Hudepohl • Jeremy Linn • Tom Malchow • Eric Namesnik • Jon Olsen • John Piersma • Jeff Rouse • Brad Schumacher • Tripp Schwenk • Scott Tucker • Peter Wright • Eric Wunderlich
Women's Team Amanda Beard • Brooke Bennett • Beth Botsford • Janet Evans • Catherine Fox • Whitney Hedgepeth • Trina Jackson • Lisa Jacob • Angel Martino • Whitney Metzler • Kristine Quance • Annette Salmeen • Jilen Siroky • Sheila Taormina • Cristina Teuscher • Jenny Thompson • Melanie Valerio • Amy Van Dyken • Allison Wagner • Ashley Whitney
Coaches Skip Kenney • David Marsh • Richard Quick • Eddie Reese • Mark Schubert • Jonty Skinner • Murray Stephens • Gregg Troy • Jon Urbanchek
Pan Pacific Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay 1985: USA (Steinseifer, Johnson, Griglione, Mitchell) • 1987: USA (Johnson, Cornelius, Walker, Torres) • 1989: USA (Thompson, Cooper, Steinseifer, Haislett) • 1991: USA (Martino, Hedgepeth, Thompson, Haislett) • 1993: USA (Valerio, Haislett, Martino, Thompson) • 1995: USA (Van Dyken, Martino, Valerio, Thompson) • 1997: USA (Fox, Valerio, DeMan, Thompson) • 1999: USA (Kolbisen, Fox, Benko, Thompson) • 2002: AUS (Henry, Mills, Thomas, Ryan) • 2006: USA (Weir, Coughlin, Joyce, Nymeyer) • 2010: USA (Coughlin, Hardy, Weir, Vollmer)
Pan Pacific Champions in Women's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay 1985: USA (Wayte, Radke, Walker, Steinseifer) • 1987: USA (Kremer, Radke, Marley, O'Leary) • 1989: USA (Kremer, Cassiday, Evans, Kole) • 1991: USA (Haislett, Hedgepeth, Evans, Anderson) • 1993: USA (Haislett, Evans, Anderson, Thompson) • 1995: USA (Teuscher, Valerio, Jackson, Thompson) • 1997: USA (Benko, Whitney, Cail, Thompson) • 1999: USA (Benko, Stonebraker, Thompson, Teuscher) • 2002: USA (Coughlin, Hill, Munz, Benko) • 2006: USA (Coughlin, Nymeyer, Vollmer, Hoff) • 2010: USA (Vollmer, Scroggy, Hoff, Schmitt)
Categories:- 1969 births
- Living people
- American swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of the United States
- People from Cleveland, Ohio
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Female freestyle swimmers
- American swimming biography stubs
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