Angelina Romanovna Melnikova (Russian: Ангели́на Рома́новна Ме́льникова, IPA: [ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ˈmʲelʲnʲɪkəvə]; born 18 July 2000) is a Russian artistic gymnast. With eleven Olympic and World medals, she is the joint 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, five-time World medalist, a nine-time European Championships medalist, a four-time European Games medalist, and a three-time Russian national all-around champion (2016, 2018, 2024). She is the 2020 Olympic all-around and floor bronze medalist, the 2021 World all-around champion, 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. She has been captain of the Russian women's national gymnastics team since 2017.
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Date: 18 July 2000
By Gina Kolata
Gina Kolata
Gina Kolata column on recent ado over early phase testing of Alzheimer's disease vaccine; discusses ethics of reporting research on drugs that may never make it to market (M)
Date: 19 July 2000
By Dow Jones
Dow Jones
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Date: 18 July 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
ABC News reports agreement with National Football League to change starting times of two Monday night preseason games, allowing network to devote an hour of prime-time coverage each to Democratic and Republican National conventions (S)
Date: 19 July 2000
By Brian Lavery
Brian Lavery
Dublin-based Independent News and Media secures approval from Britain's trade secretary to proceed with its acquisition of The Belfast Telegraph from British-based Mirror Group for 300 million pounds ($448 million); Independent News, which is run by Anthony J F O'Reilly, owns 28.5 percent of newspaper market in Northern Ireland and controls most of national daily newspaper readership in Republic of Ireland; photo (S)
Date: 18 July 2000
By Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey
Pres Clinton's telephone call to New York Daily News to defend Hillary Rodham Clinton against accusations that she made anti-Semitic slur during argument in 1974 seems to have backfired since effort to snuff out controversy seems to have added fuel to it (M)
Date: 19 July 2000
By Neil A. Lewis
Neil Lewis
Judge Norma Holloway Johnson says she will issue verdict in Aug in criminal contempt case against Charles G Bakaly 3d, former spokesman for office of independent counsel Kenneth W Starr, who is charged with lying to her about his role as source for article in New York Times about whether Pres Clinton could be indicted while in office; Justice Department, in closing argument, holds he misled judge and his own colleagues by trying to conceal some of data he provided to reporter Don Van Natta Jr (M)
Date: 19 July 2000
By James Bennet
James Bennet
Sen John McCain, who has been busy on campaign trail on behalf of host of Congressional candidates since abandoning his presidential race in Mar, plans to lead his old campaign team and some 60 journalists to Republican National Convention; holds wide range of activities he plans for convention are not aimed at overshadowing what he holds is clearly Gov George W Bush's event, interview; Bush's advisers hold McCain's star power will benefit Bush by drawing attention of independent voters (M)
Date: 18 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cephalon Inc acquires Anesta Corp for $444 million in stock to add more cancer-treatment products (S)
Date: 19 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
PNC Financial Services Group hires Salomon Smith Barney to sell its mortgage business, which collects payments for about $85 billion in home loans (S)
Date: 18 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mediq Inc, medical-equipment rental company, hires Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities to explore alternatives for its critical-care and life-support systems unit and will cut 126 more jobs there (S)