medaltemplates article_title name birth_date
women 's athletics melissa straker
 melissa straker january 23 , 1976
melissa straker

melissa straker-taylor -lrb- born january 23 , 1976 -rrb- is a retired female track and field sprinter from barbados , who twice represented her native country at the summer olympics : 1996 and 2000 .
she won a bronze medal in the women 's 4x400 metres relay at the 1999 pan american games , alongside joanne durant , andrea blackett , and tanya oxley .
