caption country event birth_place weight nationality height worlds olympics name sport nationals birth_date pb image article_title birth_name
melanie melfort france high jump hersbruck , west germany 59 kg french and german 1.82 m best in athletics result : 7th at the 2007 world championships best result : 9th at the 2012 summer olympics melanie melfort athletics 1st at several french athletics championships at the 2003 german athletics championships ; 1st 08 november 1982 '' ' ` high jump -lrb- outdoor -rrb- : '' melanie skotnik sc high jump 09.jpg melanie skotnik
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melanie skotnik

melanie skotnik -lrb- formerly melfort ; born 8 november 1982 in hersbruck , west germany -rrb- is a french-german high jumper .
she holds both german and french citizenship through her parentage and represented germany until 2004 .
skotnik finished in seventh position and ninth position respectively in the finals of the 2007 world championships and 2009 world championships .
she was eliminated in the qualification rounds of the 2005 and 2011 world championships .
at her first olympics - the 2008 summer olympics , skotnik fell 4 cm short of reaching the final after clearing 1.89 metres to finish joint 16th place in the qualification round .
at the 2012 summer olympics , she reached the final and finished in 9th place at 1.93 m. skotnik 's outdoor personal best jump is 1.96 m , achieved on 11 august 2007 in castres , which tied her with the french national outdoor record first set by maryse Éwanjé-Épée on july 21 , 1985 .
she has won several french athletics championships -lrb- outdoor and indoor -rrb- titles .
however , she still competes in the german national championships as a member of `` lg domspitzmilch regensburg '' , but represents france internationally .
skotnik also holds the french national indoor record of 1.97 m , achieved in aubière on 18 february 2007 and in dortmund in february 2003 skotnik married a french sprinter , jimmy melfort , in july 2009 .
she reverted to her maiden name in 2013 , announcing that she was in the process of divorcing jimmy melfort , who had been her coach since 2005 .
