SYDNEY: Double Olympic hand-off champion Melanie Wright has resigned from focused swimming in the wake of neglecting to make the Australian group for the Rio de Janeiro Games not long from now.
Wright, who contended under her original surname of Schlanger before wedding kindred Australian Olympic swimmer Chris Wright in 2014, won gold as an individual from the 4x200 free-form group in Beijing and the 4x100 free-form squad in London four years back.
The 29-year-old had been fighting a rib harm before the Australian titles in Adelaide and just had around three weeks of preparing to get ready for her last tilt at the Olympics.
She was thirteenth speediest in the 100 free-form semi-finals on Monday and neglected to progress to the last, which is later on Tuesday.
The main six fit the bill for the Olympic squad, with the main two taking the individual spots in the occasion.
"With that I wave farewell to an aggressive swimming profession that traversed over 15 years," Wright composed on her Facebook page on Tuesday.
"In spite of harm, I hang up my goggles without frustration or misgiving ... (what's more, I now anticipate my future out of the pool, which incorporates starting Medical School at Bond University in a couple short weeks."
Aside from tying down the hand-off squad to the main gold award won by Australia in the pool in 2012, Wright likewise won silver in the 4x200 free-form transfer and 4x100 variety hand-off in London and bronze in the 4x100 free-form hand-off in Beijing.
She likewise won big showdown gold awards in 2007 and 2015 as an individual from the 4x100 free-form hand-off group.
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