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|Row 6 info = Active}}'''Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos''' (born March 5 in Schelcher, Martinique) is an elite French gymnast. She is the 2017 French National Champion and 2017 European All-Around bronze medalist, and has also represented France at the European Youth Olympic Festival.
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Revision as of 12:08, 23 May 2018

Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos
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Dos Santos at the 2018 Tokyo World Cup

Full name

Mélanie Johanna de Jesus Dos Santos

Country represented

Flag of France France

Born

March 5 2000 (2000-03-05) (age 24)
Schelcher, Martinique, France

Years on National Team

2015-present

Club

Tropic Gym

Current status

Active

Mélanie de Jesus Dos Santos (born March 5 in Schelcher, Martinique) is an elite French gymnast. She is the 2017 and 2018 French National Champion and 2017 European All-Around bronze medalist, and has also represented France at the European Youth Olympic Festival.

Junior Career

Dos Santos competed at the 2015 French National Championships, winning all-around silver in the junior division and placing fifth on bars and floor. She made her international debut at a junior friendly meet against gymnasts from Great Britain and Switzerland. There, she won team gold and placed seventh in the all-around. At the Flanders International Team Challenge in Belgium she won team silver and placed fourth in the all-around. She was named to the French team for the European Youth Olympic Festival. There, she performed well in the team final until vault, where she underrotated her double-twisting Yurchenko and subsequently tore her ACL. France finished sixth in the team final.

Senior Career

2016

Dos Santos was able to recover enough to compete in 2016, but her knee injury from the previous year hampered her progress. After placing fourth in the all-around, balance beam, and floor exercise at the French National Championships, and winning team and all-around gold at a friendly meet against Romania (defeating 2012 Olympian Larisa Iordache and eventual 2016 Olympian Louise Vanhille), she was eventually left off the French team for the Olympics. After Rio, she won all-around silver at the Blume Memorial in Spain, and posted the highest score on vault. After that, she competed at the Élite Gym Massilia, winning balance beam gold, all-around bronze, and placing fourth on uneven bars.

2017

Dos Santos started off the year at the American Cup in New Jersey. She hit all four of her routines, posted the highest score on balance beam, and finished an impressive third in the all-around. In April, she competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Italy, placing fourth with her team and on balance beam, eighth on bars, and ninth in the all-around. Later that month, she took part in the European Championships in Romania. She earned a bronze in the all-around, France's first European all-around medal in over a decade, but fell in the uneven bars final and finished eighth. In May, she became French National Champion, won an additional silver on beam, and placed fifth on uneven bars.

In September, she competed at the Paris World Cup, winning silver on bars and placing fourth on beam and seventh on floor. In October, she competed at the World Championships in Montreal, Canada, placing an impressive fifth in the all-around. In November, she competed at the Elite Gym Massilia, winning team and uneven bars gold, all-around silver, and placing fourth on floor exercise. In December, she won gold on uneven bars and silver on balance beam at the Toyota International.

2018

Dos Santos competed at the Doha World Cup in March, winning balance beam gold and uneven bars bronze. In April, she took bronze in the all-around at the Tokyo World Cup. She went on to compete at the French National Championships in May, defending her all-around title, and winning additional gold on bars and floor and placing sixth on beam.

Medal Count

Year Event TF AA VT UB BB FX
2015 French National Championships 2nd 5 5
FRA-GBR-SUI Junior Friendly 1st 7
Flanders International Team Challenge 2nd 4
Tbilisi European Youth Olympic Festival 6
2016 French National Championships 4 4 4
France-Romania Friendly 1st 1st
Joaquim Blume Memorial 2nd
Élite Gym Massilia 3rd 4 1st
2017 AT&T American Cup 3rd
City of Jesolo Trophy 4 9 8 4
Cluj-Napoca European Championships 3rd 8
French National Championships 1st 5 2nd
Paris World Cup 2nd 4 7
Montreal World Championships 5
Élite Gym Massilia 1st 2nd 1st 4
Toyota International 1st 2nd
2018 Doha World Cup 3rd 1st
Tokyo World Cup 3rd
French National Championships 1st 1st 6 1st

Floor Music

2016 - "Tango Amore" by Edvin Marton

2017 - “Humidifier” by Eddie Hale