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Melanie Paschke (born 29 June 1970 in
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) is a retired
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sprinter, who specialised in the
100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at ...
,
200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400-metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slight ...
and
4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...
.


Career

Her personal best time in the 100 m is 11.04 seconds, achieved in June 1995 in
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. This places her tenth on the German all-time list, behind
Marlies Göhr Marlies Göhr ( Oelsner, born 21 March 1958 in Gera) is a former East German track and field athlete, the winner of the 100 metres at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. She ranked in the top 10 of the 100 m world rankings for twe ...
,
Marita Koch Marita Koch (later Meier-Koch; born 18 February 1957) is a German former Sprint (running), sprint track and field athlete. During her career she set 16 List of world records in athletics, world records in outdoor sprints as well as 14 world re ...
,
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,
Katrin Krabbe Katrin Krabbe (; later Zimmermann; born 22 November 1969) is a German former track and field athlete. She represented East Germany (GDR) at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and went on to win the 100 metres and 200 metres titles at the 1991 World Cham ...
, Heike Drechsler,
Bärbel Wöckel Bärbel Wöckel ( Eckert; born 21 March 1955) is a former East German sprinter. She never ran a world record in the individual disciplines. However, she ran several world records as part of relay teams with Doris Maletzki, Renate Ste ...
,
Annegret Richter Annegret Richter (born 13 October 1950) is a German (former West German) athlete and the 1976 Olympic 100 m champion. Biography Born Annegret Irrgang, she won her first international title at the 1971 European Championships, as a part of ...
,
Romy Müller Romy Müller ( Schneider; born 26 July 1958 in Lübbenau, Bezirk Cottbus) is a German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres and for the SC Dynamo Berlin and the Sportvereinigung Dynamo. Biography She competed for East Germany in the 1 ...
, Monika Hamann, Inge Helten and
Ingrid Auerswald Ingrid Auerswald ( Brestrich, born 2 September 1957 in Jena, East Germany) is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. Biography Brestrich-Lange competed for East Germany in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Mosc ...
. Paschke competed for the clubs LG Braunschweig and TV Wattenscheid 01 during her active career.


Achievements


See also

* German all-time top lists - 100 metres


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paschke, Melanie 1970 births Living people Sportspeople from Braunschweig LG Braunschweig athletes TV Wattenscheid athletes German female sprinters German national athletics champions Olympic athletes for Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games gold medalists for Germany World Athletics Championships winners Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade Olympic female sprinters 20th-century German sportswomen