Biography
Angelina Melnikova is a Russian gymnast, which brightly manifested itself in domestic and international tournaments. In his free time, the girl loves to draw, read and watch the cinema, follows the fashion.Childhood and youth
Angelina Romanovna Melnikova was born on July 18, 2000 in Voronezh, cancer on the sign of the zodiac. Mother of athletes Marina Anatolyevna by education lawyer, but in the specialty never worked. Father Roman worries in the farm, brother is engaged in the Greek-Roman wrestling.
From an early age, Angelina was very active, and parents decided to burn a girl in a circle. At first they were sent to the dances, but the daughters did not like it there. At the age of 6, the grandmother led her to the school of the Olympic reserve for the Sports Gymnastics named after Yu. Stukman, where Melnikova was engaged in the direction of Coach Natalia Ishkova. At the age of 11, she wanted to quit sport because of the sick ear, but in the final competitions took the 5th seats and remained.
Angelina spent a little time at school, but every year rejoiced with new notebooks and handles, tried to write beautifully. In 2018, she entered the coach to the Smolensk State Academy of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Gymnastics
In 2016, Melnikova achieved the highest achievement in his sports biography at that time, conquering a silver medal in the team all-around at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
It deserved special respect because Angelina was the youngest in the team, besides performed with a injured foot, damaging the thigh in a free jump training. In addition, because of the doping scandals, coaches were afraid to give a girl painkillers. I had to completely change the speech on the log, which is why it turned out unsuccessful, because the athletes perform elements on the machine, and there were no time to perfectly work out movements.
Captain Aliya Mustafina reassured the gymnast and advised to think about the following exercises. It helped: Angelina received the highest score on the bars, free exercises and the support jump also turned out perfectly. For a worthy result, Melnikova presented the BMW X4, a meeting with Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev took place in the Kremlin. There were already 2 cars in the family athlete, so parents planned to sell a foreign car, and revenge money to add to the award of 2.5 million rubles. and buy an apartment. As a result, the car was left, but the father went on it, and then the gymnast then bought himself Lexus.
In December 2017, the XXIV international sports gymnastics tournament for the Mikhail Voronin Cup was held in Moscow. The teams of 26 states, including Belarus, USA and France, arrived at the competition. Agelina Melnikova, Victoria Komov and Ulyana Interbinov, Kirill Potapov and Dmitry Lankin took prizes in supporting hips, took the medals in all-around.
Personal life
Melnikova has a lot of fans who constantly send bouquets, but the girl does not think about their personal life. She does not consider himself beautiful, so the gymnast is pleased with the compliments of her appearance.In June 2017, Angelina posted on his page in "Instagram" a photo in a white T-shirt with the inscription Everybody Should Be Feminist, but after a squall criticism was forced to declare that he did not support this movement.
Growth of athletes 155 cm, weight 48 kg.
Angelina Melnikova now
In April 2021, at the European Championships in Basel, Angelina won silver in all-around and free exercises, bronze in the support jump and gold in the speech on the bars. Thus, the total number of medals of the continental tournament for all the years at Melnikova reached 12. The press spoke that Russian athletes would accurately fight at the Olympics in Tokyo with American women. Gymnast thanked coaches, fans, masseuses and doctors for support provided.
In May 2021, Melnikova gave an interview for the 7th episode of All Around, the documentary series from Olympic Channel about athletes from Russia, China and the United States, their training and personal life. Angelina spoke about Games in Rio, about their hopes and personal changes lately. The girl was appointed captain of the women's team in sports gymnastics, along with her in the national team of the Russian Olympic Committee, David Belyavsky, Nikita Nagorno, Alexander Kartsev, Vladislav Polyashov, Vladislav Uralzov, Elena Gerasimov and others. Because of the injury, Ivan Stretovich did not come to the fees, but Arthur Dalaloyan unexpectedly recovered quickly.
Achievements
- 2016 - Silver Prize winner of the Olympic Games in the team all-around
- 2016, 2018 - Winner of the European Championship in the team all-around
- 2017 - Winner of the European Championships in free exercises
- 2018 - Silver winner of the European Championship in the Support Jump
- 2018 - Bronze medalist of the European Championship on the Bruce
- 2018, 2019 - Silver winner of the World Championship in the team all-around
- 2019 - Bronze medalist of the World Championships in all-around
- 2019 - Bronze medalist of the world championship in free exercises
- 2019 - Winner of European Games in Multi-Obory
- 2019 - Winner of European Games on Bruss
- 2019 - Silver medalist of European games on a log
- 2019 - Silver winner of European games in a support jump
- 2019 - Silver winner of the European Championship on the bars
- 2019 - Bronze medalist of the European Championship in all-around
- 2019 - Bronze medalist of the European Championship in free exercises
- 2021 - The winner of the European Championship on the bars
- 2021 - Silver medalist of the European Championship in Multi-Obory
- 2021 - Bronze medalist of the European Championship in the Support Jump