#Alina Melnikova

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Museum of Contemporary Art Kraków Poland

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Vault.

🥇Viktoria Listunova (13.833)

🥈Angelina Melnikova (13.833)

🥉Alina Shklokova (13.299)

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amc the terror as early 10s russian TV shows (part 1)

"the groom's room" [Let's Get Married!]

"Alina Kirgirsorovskinskaya, 49

She just found out she's adopted" [Don't Lie to Me]

"Gogen Solntsev, 22

Director of the horror theater" [Dinner Party]

"Maria Yefanova, 25

thinks of herself as a useless thing"

"Nadezhda Orlova, 38

Drinks butyrate to get back into shape"

"Irina Voronova, 55

Elderly woman of prime quality"

"Sergey Tarasov, 25

saddened by Kirill's rejection"

"Ksenia Garbyasheva, 20

doesn't understand what's happening"

"Olga Mishina, 25

shocked by her own conclusion"

"Nadezhda Melnikova, 42

woken up by loud gay porn"

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2024 Russian cup startlist

Group 1

Maria Agafonova

Leyla Vasilyeva

Elena Gerasimova

Viktoria Listunova

Angelina Melnikova

Lyudmila Roshchina

Group 2

Ekaterina Andreeva

Yulia Biryulya

Alyona Glotova

Anna Kalmykova

Ulyana Perebinosova

Elena Chursina

Kristina Shapovalova

Group 3

Kristina Kazan

Ksenia Kuzmicheva

Yulia Nikolaeva

Diana Parshikova

Arina Strukova

Maria Tretyakova

Elizaveta Us

Group 4

Eleonora Afanasyeva

Anastasia Bedrina

Polina Gubenkova

Elizaveta Malygina

Yana Matkina

Alina Shklokova

Group 5 (2009 juniors)

Arina Dimitrova

Ksenia Zelyaeva

Maria Kravchenko

Yulia Svistunova

Veranika Semyonova

Anna Smirnova

Reserves

Zlata Osokina (recovering from an injury)

No news from Kustova, Urazova and Semukhina. Another NT member that isn't listed is Margarita Melnikova (no relation), and Ilyankova retired last year.

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I'm going to try and go through what I suspect the neutrality rules will be generally, based on having watched other sports federations try to navigate this.

No involvement with the army or police institutions including military or police sports clubs. I'm expecting CSKA and Dynamo affiliation will result in ineligibility. So right off that bat that's Melnikova, Vorona, Esipova, Ilyankova, Kustova, and Perebinosova (the first one CSKA, and the other five with Dynamo).

So where does that leave the field from 2023 Russian Nationals? I include the scores which are obviously silly but they do show a certain relative strength of these gymnasts.

Viktoria Listunova - 58.532

Angelina Melnikova - 58.166

Elena Gerasimova - 54.732

Maria Agafonova - 54.332

Uliana Perebinosova - 53.699

Alyona Glotova - 53.566

Yana Vorona - 53.499

Leila Vasilieva - 52.465

Alina Shklokova - 50.465

Yulia Nikolaeva - 49.166

Vladislava Urazova only did beam and it's said that she's out of favor with VRod.

Maria Minaeva was injured last year and she's only on beam at the upcoming Russian Cup.

One note about the scoring, I think there is a fair amount of evidence of degradation in the Russian field during the ban but I still think the high end (i.e. Listunova) should be expected to be on par with where they were in Tokyo. I would lob about 2.5 points off these scores but that still means Listunova and Melnikova are still very good.

But now we've removed the easy people off that list (and doing this exercise on the MAG side is much easier because almost everyone would be excluded). I'm expecting public participation in propaganda and social media support for the war to be enough to exclude you. It will not be "check this box I don't support the war". That's not how basically any sports federation has handled this. I haven't followed the Russian WAG's social media but I expect in the depths of VK or Telegraph a few of them have said some repulsive things but I'll leave that to Russian speakers to find. It's worth saying that every sports federation that has instituted these neutrality conditions has missed someone who has said something repulsive on social media. Fencing even had to pull someone off a start list the morning of a competition.

So now we get to the thorny question: What about that propaganda rally? If Listunova and Gerasimova (who I expect are the strongest potential entrants into the international field) did that today it would almost certainly mean they would be excluded as Listunova is 18 and Gerasimova is 19. My instinct is that the authorities will decide that gymnasts who did such things when they were minors wont be held against them. But that's just a guess on my part.

All the more reason the age limit should go up to 18 for the Olympics in general because if you aren't responsible for your actions you shouldn't be competing with people who are.

The next layer of complication is that given that all the most prominent MAG athletes are bound to be excluded as well as Melnikova there is also a good chance that Valentina will announce that the neutrality conditions are an offense to the honor of Russia and none of the state supported gymnasts will be attempting to gain neutral status. She's signaled that this is possible but that might be saber rattling. Again if I was taking a wild guess... if Listunova is excluded because of the rally they will take a pass on Paris completely.

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Alina Melnikova

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2021 Russian WAG National Championships

Event Final Results

Vault

1. Angelina Melnikova 14.299

2. Yulia Biryulia  13.766

2. Viktoria Listunova 13.766

4. Aleksandra Mayzel 13.550

4. Viktoria Trykina 13.550

6. Alina Shklokova 13.416

7. Olga Levenkova 12.566

8. Aleksandra Shchekoldina 12.483

Uneven Bars

1. Vladislava Urazova 15.000

2. Viktoria Listunova 14.833

3. Angelina Melnikova 14.666

4. Maria Minaeva 14.500

5. Olga Astafeva 13.833

6. Yana Vorona 13.800

7. Anastasia Ilyankova 13.600

8. Irina Komnova 13.466

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national team or whatever

main seniors irina alexeeva (coach is listed as nazarova) lilia akhaimova elena eremina anastasia ilyankova ksenia kamkova ksenia klimenko angelina melnikova aliya mustafina maria paseka ulyana perebinosova angelina simakova daria spiridonova viktoria trykina alexandra shchekoldina reserve team (* = senior in 2020) olga astafyeva* daria belousova yana vorona* elena gerasimova* viktoria gorbatova daria elizarova varvara zubova irina komnova* valeria saifulina alina stepanova vladislava urazova* main juniors anastasia agafonova 2003 (senior) nelli audi 2005 olga bachurina 2005 alena glotova 2005 olesya zelyaeva 2005 polina ivanova 2005 sofia koroleva 2005 angelina kosynkina 2005 viktoria listunova 2005 maria minaeva 2005 yulia nikolaeva 2005 arina strukova 2004 ksenia cheban 2005 alina shklokova 2004

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Olympic Champion vibes ✨

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Utinaya Ohota, Yankovskiy Melnikova Vorkueva, Marie Claire Russia september 2017. Production by Alina Kumantsoff.

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2024 Russian WAG national team

Senior main

Maria Agafonova

Ekaterina Andreeva

Leyla Vasilyeva

Elena Gerasimova

Alyona Glotova

Anna Kalmykova

Diana Kustova

Viktoria Listunova

Angelina Melnikova

Zlata Osokina

Ulyana Perebinosova

Lyudmila Roshchina

Arina Semukhina

Vladislava Urazova

Senior reserve

Anastasia Bedrina

Yana Vorona

Ksenia Gorshkova (2009)

Anastasia Ilyankova

Margarita Melnikova (no relation)

Alina Pyatiletova (2009)

Veranika Semyonova (2009)

Elizaveta Us

Kristina Shapovalova

Alina Shklokova

Junior main (2009-2010)

Varvara Belova (2011)

Marina Bondareva

Diana Gaynulina

Arina Dimitrova

Ulyana Dubrovskaya

Ksenia Zelyaeva

Milana Kayumova

Maria Kravchenko

Nadezhda Kusleeva

Elena Senchenkova

Anastasia Tolstaya (2008)

Vitalina Shevchuk

Sevda Shukyurova

Junior reserve (2009-2010)

Aleksandra Andrianova (2012)

Alina Arkdova (2011)

Ulyana Bobkova (2012)

Ksenia Butorina (2012)

Aleksandra Iskakova (2011)

Elizaveta Kulikova

Alisa Moskovskaya (2011)

Maria Prud

Anna Smirnova

Youth (2011-2012)

Diana Bidzhamova

Eva Grigoryeva

Polina Dmitrieva

Polina Dmitrieva (another one)

Ekaterina Kanashkina

Olesia Leonova

Veronika Poletaeva

Sofia Festinatova

Lilia Khalturina

Yulia Shapovalova

Removed

Lilia Akhaimova

Viktoria Belikova (2009)

Amira Botashyova

Anna Esipova

Sofia Guz (2009)

Sabina Kaygulova

Sofia Maznaya (2009)

Maria Minaeva

Yulia Nikolaeva

Viktoria Novikova (2009)

Diana Parshikova

Yulia Svistunova (2009)

And many more

Fun fact: Aleksandra Andrianova is Nikolai Andrianov's granddaughter and the national team bars coach's daughter.

Anastasia Ilyankova and Maria Minaeva are retired, we already knew about Lilia Akhaimova, the rest are still competing, some of them not at their previous level though. Although still confused why Belikova, Novikova, Guz, Parshikova and Svistunova were removed, they're still pretty competitive and some of them are top juniors.

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2023 Russian national team

Senior main:

Maria Agafonova

Anna Esipova

Elena Gerasimova

Alyona Glotova

Anastasia Ilyankova

Diana Kustova

Viktoria Listunova

Angelina Melnikova

Maria Minaeva

Ulyana Perebinosova

Arina Semukhina

Vladislava Urazova

Elizaveta Us

Yana Vorona

Senior reserve:

Ekaterina Andreeva*

Lilia Akhaimova

Amira Botashyova

Leila Vasileva

Sabina Kaygulova

Anna Kalmykova*

Kristina Shapovalova*

Alina Shklokova

juniors*

Junior main:

Anastasia Bedrina

Viktoria Belikova

Sofia Guz

Maria Kravchenko

Sofia Maznaya

Viktoria Novikova

Zlata Osokina

Diana Parshikova

Alina Pyatiletova

Ludmilla Roshchina

Veranika Semyonova

Anna Smirnova

Anastasia Tolstaya

Junior reserve:

Marina Bondareva

Ksenia Gorshkova

Ulyana Dubrovskaya

Milana Kayumova

Maria Prud

Yulia Svistunova

Sofia Khaylo

Vitalina Shevchuk

Youth:

Aleksandra Anufrieva

Elizaveta Basova

Diana Gaynulina

Polina Dmitrieva

Aleksandra Iskakova

Nadezhda Kusleeva

Milana Levedeva

Ekaterina Polyakova

Yana Spiridonova

Sevda Shukyurova

Daria Belousova, Yulia Biryulya, Irina Komnova, Lyubov Galyuzhina, Sofia Pudova (2007) & Maria Tretyakova were all removed. Surprised to not see Eleonora Afanasyeva and Ksenia Zelyaeva on the list.

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🇷🇺WAG NT 2022🇷🇺

Main Team: Maria Agafonova, Lilia Akhaimova, Leila Vasileva, Yana Vorona, Elena Gerasimova, Aliona Glotova, Anastasia Ilyankova, Diana Kustova, Viktoria Listunova, Angelina Melnikova, Maria Minaeva, Uliana Perebinosova, Arina Semukhina and Vladislava Urazova

Reserve Team: Yulia Biryulya(!!), Amira Botasheva, Anna Esipova, Anna Kalmykova, Irina Komnova, Elizaveta Us, and Kristina Shapovalova

Junior Team: Ekaterina Andreeva, Anastasia Bedrina, Valeria Bukina, Sofia Maznaya, Liubov Galiuzhina, Polina Grushnina, Zlata Osokina, Sabina Kaigulova, Sofia Pudova, Liudmila Roshchina and Alina Pyatiletova

In exciting coaching news: Maria Kharenkova has joined Mustafina and Afanasyeva on the junior coaching team - she will be coaching beam. Evgeny Grebyonkin is now the uneven bar coach for the juniors.

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2018 Russian National Team

Please note that this is not like the U.S. national team; some gymnasts here may not  compete in 2018, or may even be retired. (Example: Maria Paseka is on the team because she won Worlds gold, though she is unlikely to compete this year.) But "on the national team” more or less equals “elite” in Russia, and gymnasts for international meets will be chosen from this list.

Senior Team Eleonora Afanasyeva Lilia Akhaimova Elena Eremina Anastasia Ilyankova Natalia Kapitonova Viktoria Komova Angelina Melnikova Aliya Mustafina Maria Paseka Ulyana Perebinosova Angelina Simakova Daria Spiridonova Maria Kharenkova Alexandra Shchekoldina

Senior Reserve Ksenia Afanasyeva Viktoria Gorbatova Daria Elizarova Varvara Zubova Ksenia Kamkova Ksenia Klimenko (2019 senior) Elizaveta Kochetkova Valeria Saifulina Daria Skrypnik Viktoria Trykina Seda Tutkhalyan Evgenia Shelgunova

Junior Team Anastasia Agafonova (03) Rukhshona Azamova (04) Olga Astafyeva (04) Daria Belousova (03) Yana Vorona (04) Elena Gerasimova (04) Irina Komnova (04) Vlada Kotlyarova (03) Polina Novikova (04) Viktoria Panchuk (02, so a senior) Alina Stepanova (03) Arina Strukova (04) Vladislava Urazova (04) Alexandra Yudina (03)

Junior Reserve + Youth Team under the cut.

Junior Reserve Nelli Audi (05) Polina Ivanova (05) Viktoria Listunova (05) Maria Minaeva (05) Yulia Nikolaeva (05) Irina Oreshnikova (4) Sofia Shaidulina (04)

Youth Team Svetlana Barsukova (06) Olga Bachurina (05) Varvara Gerasimova (06) Alena Glotova (05) Olesya Zelyaeva (05) Khristina Kalinina (06) Paulina Kamushkova (05) Sofia Koroleva (05) Angelina Kosnikina (05) Ksenia Nechai (06) Arina Semukhina (05) Polina Sutormina (05) Ksenia Cheban (05) Anna Chuprinenko (05)