![]() Melnikova became age-eligible for senior competition in 2016 and made her senior international debut at the DTB Pokal Team Challenge Cup where the Russian team won the gold medal. She qualified to the floor exercise and uneven bars event finals, but counted falls in both events leaving her in sixth and fifth place respectively. Individually she won the all-around title ahead of France's Marine Brevet and Romania's Diana Bulimar. She, alongside teammates Daria Skrypnik, Evgeniya Shelgunova, and Natalia Kapitonova, won the silver medal in the team competition. Melnikova competed at the Elite Gym Massilia meet in Marseille, France in November. Her overall score of 57.234 was the highest of the competition, beating official champion Daria Spiridonova's score of 56.733. In September she performed at the Russian Cup she was ineligible to compete due to her junior status but she was able to perform as a guest. She finished in first place with her team, then went on to take the silver in the all-around, fifth on uneven bars, first on balance beam, and second on floor exercise. Melnikova competed at the Junior Russian National Championships in Penza in early April. Melnikova then went on to win a gold medal in the all-around and on balance beam and a silver medal on the uneven bars behind teammate Skrypnik. As a team they placed first with a combined score of 168.268. Due to her strong performance Melnikova was selected for the team.Īt the European Championships Melnikova competed in the junior division alongside teammates Maria Bondareva, Daria Skrypnik, Seda Tutkhalyan, and Anastasia Dmitrieva. The results of these championships were used to help determine the gymnasts who would compete at the European Championships the following month in Sofia. She competed in the uneven bars final and placed seventh. She also won two other gold medals on balance beam and floor exercise with scores of 14.700 and 14.167 respectively. Individually Melnikova had a strong showing and placed first in the Junior Master of the Sport division with a score of 58.300. Her team placed first with a combined total score of 267.966. In April Melnikova competed at the Russian National Championships with her home team, the Central Federal District. She also placed second on uneven bars and third on floor exercise. She won the team gold medal alongside Anastasia Ilyankova, Daria Skrypnik, and Ekaterina Sokova and individually she won the all-around silver medal in the Junior International Cup behind Canadian Rose-Kaying Woo. Melnikova was added to Russia's junior national team in 2014 and made her international debut at the International Gymnix competition in Montreal. In 2018, Melnikova started her own business designing and selling leotards. At the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, she was presented with the Longines Prize for Elegance. ![]() Following the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she received the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", as well as the title of Honoured Master of Sport in the Russian Federation. She has been captain of the Russian women's national gymnastics team since 2017. In winning the 2021 World all-around title, she became the first non-American to win a World or Olympic all-around title in over a decade.Īt the junior level, Melnikova won gold medals at the 2014 European Championships in the team, all-around, and balance beam events and was the 2014 Russian junior all-around national champion. ![]() She is also the 2019 European Games all-around and uneven bars champion, the 2017 European champion on floor, and the 2021 European champion on uneven bars. She is the 2020 Olympic all-around and floor bronze medalist, the 2021 World all-around champion, floor silver medalist, and vault bronze medalist, and the 2019 World all-around and floor bronze medalist. Individually Melnikova is a two-time Olympic medalist, five-time World medalist, a nine-time European Championships medalist, a four-time European Games medalist, and a two-time Russian national all-around champion (2016, 2018). She was also a member of the gold medal-winning Russian teams at the 20 European Championships, and the silver medal-winning Russian teams at the 20 World Championships. She previously represented Russia at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the team competition. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics she led the Russian Olympic Committee to gold in the team competition. With eleven Olympic and World medals, she is the joint third-most decorated Russian gymnast of all time. ![]()
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