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Melnikova takes Russian Junior Championships

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Seda Tutkhalyan, Angelina Melnikova, Daria Mikhailova
Angelina Melnikova confirmed her status at the top of the junior Russian tree today with an outstanding performance in the junior championships (Master of Sports category), scoring a total of 58.3.  She was followed by Seda Tutkhalyan and Daria Mikhailova, both Muscovites. Mikhailova trains with Anastasia Grishina under Viktor Razumovsky. 

Melnikova with coach Denisovich, from Voronezh
In the Candidate Master of Sports category, Elena Eremina came first (55.1), ahead of Gymnix 'veteran' Ekaterina Sokova and the relatively unknown Viktoria Trykina.  Eremina is a team mate of Tatiana Nabiyeva in St Petersburg, and is coached by Alexander Kiryashev. 
All of the medallists in today's competition, with the exception of Trykina, who comes from Moscow, are listed as national team members on the RGF website - I publish some of their details below.  Full results of the competition are available, in Russian.

Angelina Melnikova
18th July, 2000
Voronezh, coached by S Denisovich

Seda Tutkhalyan
15th July 1999
Moscow, coached by M Ulyankina

Daria Mikhailova
29th December 1999
Moscow, coached byViktor Razumovsky

Ekaterina Sokova, Elena Eremina, Viktoria Trykina


Elena Eremina
29th July, 2001
St Petersburg, coached by Alexander Kiryashev

Ekaterina Sokova
12th December, 2000
Vladimir, coached by A Kulikova







Link to video of today's live stream http://youtu.be/266qXpAl55g

I am still waiting for video of today's competition to become available, but in the meantime enjoy the following videos.

Angelina Melnikova, FX, 28th February 2014



Seda Tutkhalyan, UB, February 2014



Elena Eremina, FX, November 2013



Ekaterina Sokova, FX 2014







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  1. Anonymous4 April 2014 at 15:45

    Did Maria Bondareva and Anastasia Dmitrieva compete at this Championships?

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    1. Queen Elizabeth4 April 2014 at 15:52

      Dimitrieva came 5th after a few problems on bars and beam (53.1 - follow the link to the results to see apparatus results).
      Bondareva competed in the team competition earlier this week, but not in the all around :-( She hasn't really recovered her form of previous years.
      Youth Olympics are later this year and based on age group restrictions, we think Seda Tutkhalyan is most likely to represent Russia - Melnikova is too young.

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    2. Alyssia4 April 2014 at 16:20

      Evgenia Zhukova who is on the senior reserve team said that Bondareva felt ill :( I hope she will compete on Sunday. But it does seem that Tutkhalyan will be a more likely YOG participant.

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