de JESUS dos SANTOS Melanie

France

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 5 Mar 2000

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.52/4'11''

Place of birth: FORT-DE-FRANCE

Birth Country:

France

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank
Artistic Gymnastics	Women's All-Around	11
	Women's Vault
	Women's Uneven Bars	6
	Women's Balance Beam
	Women's Floor Exercise
	Women's Team FRA France	6

Schedule

Change

Location	Event	Status
Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Women	Women's Team Final	Finished
Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Women	Women's All-Around Final	Finished
Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Uneven Bars	Women's Uneven Bars Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

World Championships

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	5	5	12	20	5
2018	Doha, QAT	56	6	18	6	5
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	9	15	11	5	-

European Championships

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	AA	Team
2021	Basel, SUI	1	-	26	-	-
2019	Szczecin, POL	2	1	7	1	-
2018	Glasgow, GBR	4	1	11	-	2
2017	Cluj-Napoca, ROU	22	14	8	3	-

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	BB	UB	AA
2018	-	-	1 x 3rd
2017/2018	1 x 1st	1 x 3rd	-
2017	-	-	1 x 3rd

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2017/2018	Balance Beam	Doha, QAT	13.933
3	2018	All-Around	Tokyo, JPN	53.998
3	2017/2018	Uneven Bars	Doha, QAT	14.400
3	2017	All-Around	Newark, NJ, USA	53.899

Legend
BB - Balance Beam, FX - Floor Excercise, UB - Uneven Bars, VT - Vault, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Nickname:

Mela, Mel, Nini (actusgymnastique.wordpress.com, 04 Sep 2017)

Hobbies:

Dancing, sport fishing, surfing, diving. (leparisien.fr, 13 Sep 2019; ffgym.fr, 17 Sep 2019)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Education:

Sport and Recreation Studies

Languages spoken:

Creole, English, French

Club name:

Kreyol Gym Fort-de-France / Pole France Saint Etienne

Coach:

Eric Hagard [personal], FRA; Monique Hagard [personal], FRA

Injuries:

In January 2019 she injured her left ring finger. (tellerreport.com, 12 Apr 2019)

She tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her knee in July 2015 which required surgery. She was unable to train for nine months and did not return until April 2016. (france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, 06 May 2017; ffgym.fr, 21 Nov 2016; actusgymnastique.wordpress.com, 03 Aug 2015)

Start:

She began gymnastics at age five at the Tropic Gym club in Fort-de-France, Martinique. (gymandnews.com, 14 Jul 2016)

Ambition:

To win medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and to become a coach. (ffgym.fr, 17 Sep 2019)

Training:

She trains 26 hours per week. (ffgym.fr, 17 Sep 2019)

Memorable:

Winning silver in the team all-around and gold on floor at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. (gymandnews.com, 09 Aug 2018)

General Interest

General
TRAINING WITH THE BEST
In August 2019 she and five teammates trained with 2016 Olympic quadruple gold medallist Simone Biles in Houston, TX, United States of America. "We watch how she trains and we try to do a little similar. Many girls would have liked to be in our place. But we are not on vacation." (francebleu.fr, 15 Aug 2019)

LEAVING MARTINIQUE
She left her birthplace of Martinique, a French overseas region in the Caribbean, to move to continental France in 2013 and join the national training programme. (france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, 06 May 2017)

Social Media

https://instagram.com/melanie_djds972/

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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