Melanie Kok
Kok holding her bronze medal for lightweight double sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Melanie Kok | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1983-11-04) November 4, 1983 (age 40) Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town | St. Catharines, Ontario | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg/130 lb | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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College team | University of Virginia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Ridley Graduate Boat Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Melanie Kok [pronounced "Cook"] (born November 4, 1983, in Thunder Bay, Ontario) is a Canadian rower and neuroscientist. Kok won a bronze team medal in the Women's Lightweight Double Sculls at the 2008 Summer Olympics with Tracy Cameron.
Biography
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 honours twice (2006, 2007). She was also named to the All-South Region and All-ACC teams. She went on to complete her master's degree in 2010 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in the MiNDS Graduate Neuroscience Program. Kok went on to complete her PhD in neuroscience at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.
International career
Kok is a five-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 Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics in the Women's Lightweight Doubles with Tracy Cameron and won a bronze team medal.[1]
Kok was named the City of St. Catharines Athlete of the Year in 2005, and in 2008, as a co-winner with Olympic wrestler Tonya Verbeek.
At the 2011 Pan American Games, Kok won a silver team medal in the women's quadruple sculls.
References
External links
- Profile at Rowing Canada
- Profile at Virginiasports.com
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- 1998: (Nicole Faust, Anna Kleinz, Christine Morawitz, Valerie Viehoff)
- 1999: (Molly Brock, Mary Angie Cummins, Sara Den Besten, Sherri Kiklas)
- 2000: (Maja Darmstadt, Michelle Darvill, Anna Kleinz, Karin Stephan)
- 2001: (Catriona Roach, Sally Causby, Amber Halliday, Josephine Lips)
- 2002: (Zita van de Walle, Marguerite Houston, Miranda Bennett, Hannah Every-Hall)
- 2003: (Li Quan, Deng Yanping, Tan Meiyun, Zhou Weijuan)
- 2004: (Wang Yanni, Deng Yanping, Tan Meiyun, Zhou Weijuan)
- 2005: (Tracy Cameron, Mara Jones, Elizabeth Urbach, Melanie Kok)
- 2006: (Yu Hua, Chen Haixia, Fan Xuefei, Liu Jing)
- 2007: (Bronwen Watson, Miranda Bennett, Alice McNamara, Tara Kelly)
- 2008: (Ingrid Fenger, Bronwen Watson, Miranda Bennett, Alice McNamara)
- 2009: (Lena Müller, Helke Nieschlag, Laura Tibitanzl, Julia Kroeger)
- 2010: (Lena Müller, Daniela Reimer, Anja Noske, Marie-Louise Dräger)
- 2011: (Stephanie Cullen, Imogen Walsh, Kathryn Twyman, Andrea Dennis)
- 2012: (Magdalena Kemnitz, Jaclyn Halko, Agnieszka Renc, Weronika Deresz)
- 2013: (Mirte Kraaijkamp, Maaike Head, Rianne Sigmond, Marie-Anne Frenken)
- 2014: (Mirte Kraaijkamp, Elisabeth Woerner, Maaike Head, Ilse Paulis)
- 2015: (Katrin Thoma, Leonie Pieper, Lena Müller, Anja Noske)
- 2016: (Brianna Stubbs, Emily Craig, Imogen Walsh, Eleanor Piggott)
- 2017: (Asja Maregotto, Paola Piazzolla, Federica Cesarini, Giovanna Schettino)
- 2018: (Wu Qiang, Liang Guoru, Chen Fang, Pan Dandan)
- 2019: (Giulia Mignemi, Greta Martinelli,Silvia Crosio, Arianna Noseda)
- 2022: (Ilaria Corazza, Giulia Mignemi, Silvia Crosio, Arianna Noseda)
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