Facts: - education: exhall grange school university of birmingham - birth date: 28 november 1972 - name: melanie easter - birth place: warwick , warwickshire , england - occupation: british paralympic swimmer , runner and cyclist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of melanie easter .
melanie easter -lrb- born 28 november 1972 in warwick , warwickshire -rrb- is a british paralympic swimmer , runner and more recently a cyclist .she represented the united kingdom as a swimmer at the 1996 and 2000 paralympic games .she won a gold and silver for events at the 1996 games in atlanta , and gold , silver and bronze medals for at the sydney olympics in 2000 .additionally an accomplished runner , easter took up cycling competitively in 2007 , and the following year competed in the world triathlon championships in vancouver where she attained a gold .easter grew up in the warwickshire town of kenilworth and attended exhall grange school , a school for visually impaired students near coventry .easter ; the pink house at the school is named after her .she has a degree from the university of birmingham .