Angelina Melnikova

On July 9 it was announced that Melnikova would be featured in a year-long documentary series on the Olympic Channel titled All Around, alongside American Morgan Hurd and Chen Yile of China, which will follow their journeys and training leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Individually, she is the 2019 European Games all-around and uneven bars champion, the 2019 World all-around and floor exercise bronze medalist, the 2017 European champion on the floor exercise, a six-time individual European Championships medalist, a four-time European Games medalist, and a two-time Russian national all-around champion (2016, 2018). At the junior level, Melnikova also 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. In 2018, Russian head coach Valentina Rodionenko referred to Melnikova as "the team leader."

In March Melnikova competed at the Russian National Championships where she placed second in the all-around behind Angelina Simakova. She won gold on the floor exercise, silver on vault and balance beam, and bronze on uneven bars. As a result she was chosen to compete at the 2019 European Championships alongside Simakova, Maria Paseka, and Anastasia Ilyankova. Later that month Melnikova competed at the EnBW DTB-Pokal Team Challenge in Stuttgart. She won silver in the team final behind Brazil and in the individual all-around behind Brazilian Rebeca Andrade.

In August Melnikova competed at the Russian Cup. After two days of competition she placed second in the all-around behind junior national team member Vladislava Urazova. On the first day of event finals Melnikova won silver on vault, finishing behind Lilia Akhaimova and won bronze on uneven bars behind Daria Spiridonova and Urazova. She later withdrew from the floor exercise final, citing health reasons. Shortly after the conclusion of the Russian Cup Melnikova was named to the nominative team for the 2019 World Championships alongside Akhaimova, Spiridonova, Anastasia Agafonova, Angelina Simakova (later replaced by Maria Paseka), and Aleksandra Shchekoldina. This announcement made Melnikova the only Russian gymnast to be a member of all three world championships teams during the 2017-2020 quadrennium.

In April, Melnikova competed at the 2018 City of Jesolo Trophy, where she claimed a gold medal with the Russian team, ahead of Italy and Brazil. On vault, she won a silver medal; on bars, she claimed a bronze, behind teammate Anastasia Ilyankova and USA's Ragan Smith. On beam, she won another bronze, behind the American first-year senior Emma Malabuyo and Smith. She also finished fourth in the all-around, behind Malabuyo, Smith, and Ilyankova, and fifth on floor exercise.

On 29 September, Melnikova was named to the nominative roster to compete at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar alongside Akhaimova, Alexeeva, Mustafina, and Simakova. On 17 October, the Worlds team was officially announced and was unchanged from the nominative team. During qualifications Melnikova qualified to the all-around in fifth place and to the floor exercise final in third place. Russia also qualified to the team final in second place. During team finals Melnikova competed on vault, uneven bars, and floor exercise, helping Russia win the silver medal. In the all-around final, Melnikova finished in fifth place, just a tenth of a point behind silver medalist Mai Murakami of Japan, 0.034 points behind bronze medalist Morgan Hurd of the United States, and 0.001 points behind fourth-place finisher Nina Derwael of Belgium. She was later awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance alongside compatriot Artur Dalaloyan. She finished fourth in the floor exercise final, only 0.033 points behind bronze medalist Murakami.

Melnikova started her season at the Russian National Championships in Kazan. Although she was expected to do well in the absence of Olympic champion Aliya Mustafina, as well as coming into the meet as the reigning national champion, she faltered throughout the competition on every event except vault, finishing 9th in the all-around. She also placed 3rd on vault and Beam, falling on the latter. Despite her poor showing at nationals, Melnikova participated in the 2017 Stuttgart World Cup in March, placing second behind Germany's Tabea Alt and ahead of the USA's Morgan Hurd. She then competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy, where she received three bronze medals in the team all-around, vault and floor exercise. Later she participated at the 2017 London World Cup. She competed poorly, falling on beam and floor with major mistakes on bars and vault. It was announced in April that she would attend the European championships as part of the Russian team, along with 2016 Olympic teammate Paseka, Elena Eremina, and Natalia Kapitonova. During qualifiers, she fell on the balance beam and uneven bars, and she did not qualify for the individual all-around, but she qualified for the vault and floor exercise final. During the vault, her form was not as good as the other gymnasts, resulting in her coming 8th. During the floor exercise final, she did a surprisingly clean routine which resulted in her winning the gold medal ahead of British gymnast Ellie Downie and Eythora Thorsdottir from the Netherlands. Her score in the final (14.100) was the highest international score on floor exercise for the 2017 season thus far.

In July, Melnikova was named to the 2016 Olympic team along with Aliya Mustafina, Maria Paseka, Daria Spiridonova, and Seda Tutkhalyan to represent Russia at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the Olympic Games, she performed subpar, partially due to a strained hamstring suffered during podium training. In the qualifying session she fell off of the beam and again on floor, failing to qualify into the individual all around or any of the event finals as many expected her to. She improved upon her performance in team finals, competing all 4 events, but still counting a fall on beam. Her performances contributed to Russia's team silver medal.

Melnikova competed at the 2014 L'International Gymnix to win the team gold medal and all-around silver medal in Junior International Cup. She also placed second on uneven bars and third on floor exercise. In April, Melnikova competed at the Russian National Championships which were held in Penza with her home team, the Central Federal District. Her team placed first with a combined total score of 267.966. Individually Melnikova had a strong showing placing first in the Junior Master of the Sport All-Around with a score of 58.300. She also won two other gold medals on beam and floor with scores of 14.700 and 14.167 respectively. She competed in the uneven bars final and placed seventh. The results of these championships were used to help determine the gymnasts who would compete at the European Championships in Sofia and due to her strong performance Melnikova was selected for the team.

In May 2014, Melnikova competed at the European Gymnastics Championships in the junior division alongside teammates Maria Bondareva, Daria Skrypnik, Seda Tutkhalyan and Anastasia Dmitrieva. As a team they placed first with a combined score of 168.268. Melnikova then went on to win a gold medal in the all-around competition and on beam and a silver medal on bars behind teammate Skrypnik.

Melnikova competed at the Junior Russian Championships in Penza, Russia on 1–4 April. She finished in 1st place with her team, then went on to take the silver in the all-around, 5th on the uneven bars, gold on the balance beam, and silver on the floor.

On 18–20 March, Melnikova debuted in international competition at the DTB Pokal Team Challenge Cup where Team Russia won the gold medal. On 1–10 April, Melnikova won the all-around at the 2016 Russian Artistic Gymnastics Championships; as well as taking gold in balance beam, floor exercise and finished 5th in the uneven bars final.

Angelina Romanovna Melnikova (Russian: Ангели́на Рома́новна Ме́льникова , born 18 July 2000) is a Russian artistic gymnast. She represented Russia at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the team competition. She was also a member of the gold-medal-winning Russian teams at the 2016 and 2018 European Championships, and the silver-medal-winning Russian teams at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships.