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{{MedalCompetition | [[World Curling Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[2010 World Women's Curling Championship|2010 Swift Current]] | }}
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'''Melanie Robillard''' (born October 3, 1982, in [[Sussex, New Brunswick]]) is a [[curling|curler]] originally from [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada. She represented Germany at the [[2010 Winter Olympics|Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games]], playing third for Andrea Schöpp. Currently, she lives in Switzerland{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}.

==Career==
As a junior, Robillard curled for [[Jenn Hanna]]'s team in 2000 as her lead. The rink would lose in the [[Pepsi Ontario Junior Curling Championships|Ontario provincial junior finals]] that year, to [[Julie Reddick]]. In 2002, Robillard skipped her team to the provincial junior finals, but lost once again to Reddick.<ref>[http://www.ffh.de/info/curling-mit-sexappeal-15964.php HIT RADIO FFH - Sport - Melanie Robillard] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227024830/http://www.ffh.de/info/curling-mit-sexappeal-15964.php |date=2010-02-27 }}</ref> Robillard, who has a German mother, officially played alternate for the German team at the [[2008 Ford World Women's Curling Championship]], but ended up playing second for seven of the eleven matches. Later in the year, she played lead for the German mixed team that won the gold medal at the [[2008 European Mixed Curling Championship]].<ref>[http://results.worldcurling.org/Person.aspx?id=5330 Worldcurling-Profil from Melanie Robillard] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221121307/http://results.worldcurling.org/Person.aspx?id=5330 |date=2010-02-21 }}</ref> She competed on the German women's teams, skipped by [[Andrea Schöpp]], as third in the [[2010 Winter Olympics]], and in the [[2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship]], which they won.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.teamschoeppweb.com/ |title=Curling Team Schöpp |access-date=2010-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329212557/http://www.teamschoeppweb.com/ |archive-date=2008-03-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seasonofchampions.ca/2010worlds/news733.asp |title=2010 Ford World Women's Curling Championship |accessdate=2010-03-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331034307/http://www.seasonofchampions.ca/2010worlds/news733.asp |archivedate=2010-03-31 }}</ref>

In 2011, she coached both the Spanish men's and women's teams at the [[European Curling Championships]].

==Personal life==
Robillard formerly studied law at the [[Université libre de Bruxelles]]. She  worked as a Compliance Officer for an investment firm. She speaks [[French language|French]], [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ottawasun.com/sports/vancouver2010/2010/02/10/12831536.html |title=Local heroes: Melanie Robillard {{!}} Vancouver 2010 {{!}} Sports |website=Ottawa Sun |date= |language=en |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160303203731/https://ottawasun.com/sports/vancouver2010/2010/02/10/12831536.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 

In 2005, Robillard posed topless for a calendar to promote women's curling.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oglympics.com/2010/02/16/women-of-curling-fire-on-ice/ |title=Women of Curling (Fire on Ice) - Part I |website=Oglympics.com |date= |language=en |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20170526230734/http://oglympics.com/2010/02/16/women-of-curling-fire-on-ice/ |archive-date=2017-05-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Ana Arce]]
* [[Daniela Jentsch]]
* [[Lynsay Ryan]]
* [[Kasia Selwand]]
* [[Claudia Toth]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Sports links}}

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[[Category:European curling champions]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian sportswomen]]
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[[Category:21st-century Spanish sportswomen]]


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