Melanie Kok
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| Full name | Melanie Kok | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Canada |
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| Born | November 4, 1983 Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada |
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| Height | 5'6" | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg/130 lbs. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| College/university 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. Kok won a bronze medal in the Women's Lightweight Double Sculls at the 2008 Olympic Games with partner Tracy Cameron.
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University career
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 honors twice (2006, 2007). She was also named to the All-South Region and All-ACC teams.
She completed her Master's degree in 2010 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in the MiNDS Graduate Neuroscience Program. She is currently a PhD student in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, also in the Neuroscience Graduate Program.
International career
Kok is a four-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 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China in the Women's Lightweight Doubles with partner Tracy Cameron and won a bronze medal.[1]
Kok was named the City of St. Catharines Athlete of the Year in 2005, and again in 2008, as a co-winner with Olympic wrestler Tonya Verbeek.
During the 2011 Pan American Games, Kok won a silver medal as part of the women's quadruple sculls.
References
- ^ The Canadian Press (2008-08-18). "Double Bronze in Rowing". TSN.ca. http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/story/?id=246638&lid=headline&lpos=secStory_main. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
External links
- Profile at Rowing Canada
- Profile at Virginiasports.com
- MiNDS Graduates
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