Melanie Robillard is a curler

Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...

 originally from Ottawa

Ottawa

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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Career

She curled for Jenn Hanna

Jenn Hanna

Jennifer Ann Hanna is a Canadian curler who curls out of the Ottawa Curling Club. She was a finalist in both the 1998 Canadian Junior Curling Championship and the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts.-Personal life:...

's team in 2000 as her lead. They would lose in the provincial junior finals that year. In 2002, Robillard skipped her own team to the provincial junior finals, but lost. Robillard, who has a German mother, officially played alternate for the German team at the 2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship

2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship

-Draw 2:March 22, 18:00-Draw 3:March 23, 10:30-Draw 4:March 23, 16:00-Draw 5:March 23, 20:00-Draw 6:March 24, 8:30-Draw 7:March 24, 1:00 PM-Draw 8:March 24, 18:30-Draw 9:March 25, 8:30...

, but ended up playing second for seven of the eleven matches. Later on in the year, she played lead for the German mixed team that won the gold medal at the 2008 European Mixed Curling Championship

European Mixed Curling Championship

The European Mixed Curling Championships is a mixed curling tournament held annually in the autumn for European nations. The first tournament was held in 2005.-Results:...

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She competed on the German women's teams, skipped by Andrea Schöpp

Andrea Schöpp

Dr. Andrea Schöpp is a German curler from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She also lectures part-time in statistics at the University of Munich....

, as second in the 2010 Winter Olympics

2010 Winter Olympics

The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, were a major international multi-sport event held from February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University...

, and as third in the 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship

2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship

The 2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship was held in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada from March 20-28, 2010.-Qualification:...

, which they won.

Personal life

She is currently studying law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles

Université Libre de Bruxelles

The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...

. She speaks French

French language

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, English

English language

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, German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 and Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

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In 2005, Robillard posed nude for a calendar to promote women's curling.

See also

• Ana Arce
  Ana Arce
  Ana Arce is a photographer and former skip of the Andorran national women's curling team. She now plays on the Spanish national team.-Photography:...
  
  
• Daniela Jentsch
  Daniela Jentsch
  Daniela Jentsch is a former skip of the German national women's curling team. She has skipped the German women's junior team to two "B" level gold medals in 2001 and 2002. She has curled once at the world championships level, in 2000 as a third for Petra Tschetsch. They finished sixth...
  
  
• Lynsay Ryan
  Lynsay Ryan
  Lynsay Ryan is a talented musician/singer/songwriter. She has produced two albums and has performed across Canada. Her Myspace website myspace.com/LynsayRyan has received over 7 million hits...
  
  
• Kasia Selwand
  Kasia Selwand
  Katarzyna "Kasia" Selwant is the former Polish national curling team lead. In 2005, she posed for a calendar to promote women's curling. She played in both the 2004 and 2005 European Curling Championships for skip Krystyna Beniger...
  
  
• Claudia Toth
  Claudia Toth
  Claudia Toth is the Austrian national curling team skip. She once turned down an offer to pose for the German edition of Playboy....