Melissa Straker
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Melissa Straker-Taylor (born January 23, 1976) 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.
Running for the Rice Owls track and field team, Straker won the 1997 4 × 400 meter relay at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Andrea Blackett - Women's Track & Field Coach". Rice University Athletics. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- Melissa Straker-Taylor at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Melissa Straker at World Athletics
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Barbadian female sprinters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic athletes for Barbados
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Barbados
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Barbados
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Olympic female sprinters
- Rice Owls women's track and field athletes
- NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
- Barbadian athletics biography stubs