Education
In 2007 she completed a Master’s degree in Biochemical Engineering at University College London before enrolling in Imperial College London to sit for a post-graduate degree in medicine.
In 2007 she completed a Master’s degree in Biochemical Engineering at University College London before enrolling in Imperial College London to sit for a post-graduate degree in medicine.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women"s quadruple sculls. Born in Southampton, Wilson spent her early years in Japan and Hong Kong before moving to the United Kingdom in 2002 to take an honours degree in Biochemistry and Genetics at the University of Nottingham. After graduating she spent 6 months in Kilifi, Kenya working on research into malaria under the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme.
After she was selected to join the Great Britain Rowing team she suspended her medical studies in 2010 to focus on competing for a place in a Great Britain boat in the London 2012 Olympics.
Wilson withdrew from full-time competitive rowing in September to resume her medical studies. Wilson has a rowing scholarship from Imperial College London and competes at club level in the colours of Imperial College Boat Club.
She lives in Hammersmith, London. At 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia, Wilson raced in the women"s quadruple scull with crewmates Debbie Flood, Beth Rodford and Annabel Vernon, finishing 7th.
This was sufficient to qualify the boat for the 2012 London Olympics but a below form finish and a result which Wilson described as the ‘the biggest disappointment of my life’.
2012 At the 2012 Great Britain Rowing Team Senior Trials held on 10/11 March at Eton/Dorney, Wilson finished 5th in the women"s single scull. She was subsequently selected to race in the quadruple scull at the Belgrade World Cup in May 2012. In the lead up to the 2012 London Olympics Wilson then competed in the World Cup quadruple scull races at Lucerne and Munich.
At the 2012 London Olympics at Dorney Lake, Eton Wilson raced with Debbie Flood, Frances Houghton and Beth Rodford in the Great Britain quadruple sculls boat.
The boat qualified for the A Final but failed to deliver a competitive performance in the finals and finished outside the medals in 6th place. The crew comprised: Heather Stanning – Army Remote Control.
Helen Glover – Minerva-Bath Remote Control. Zoe Lee – Imperial College British Columbia. Katherine Grainger – Marlow Remote Control.
Melanie Wilson. Caragh McMurtry – Southampton Coalporters American Red Cross. Olivia Carnegie-Brown – Oxford Brookes University British Columbia. Jessica Eddie – London Remote Control.
Cox Phelan Hill – Leander Club.