Angelina Melnikova
Russian artistic gymnast
Angelina Romanovna Melnikova (Russian: Ангели́на Рома́новна Ме́льникова, IPA: [ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ˈmʲelʲnʲɪkəvə]; born 18 July 2000) is a Russian artistic gymnast. With fourteen Olympic and World medals, she is the third-most decorated Russian gymnast of all time. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she led the Russian Olympic Committee to gold in the team competition. She previously 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.
Individually, Melnikova is a two-time Olympic medalist, an eight-time World medalist, a seventeen-time European Championships medalist, a four-time European Games medalist, and a four-time Russian national all-around champion (2016, 2018, 2024, 2025). She is the 2020 Olympic all-around and floor bronze medalist, the 2021 and 2025 World all-around champion, 2025 vault champion and uneven bars silver medalist, 2021 floor silver medalist and vault bronze medalist, and the 2019 World all-around and floor bronze medalist. 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. 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.
At 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.
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