Melnikova is the 2014 Top Gym Champion

Angelina Melnikova, the Russian who became this year’s junior all-around and beam champion at European Championships, won gold in the all-around at Top Gym, a competition in Charleroi, Belgium known for showcasing juniors who become top senior talent in later years.

The 14-year-old finished her day with a four point margin between her and her competition. The fight for silver and bronze was a tough one, with Canada’s Sydney Laird and Romania’s Ioana Crisan edging out about four others who were within a point from making it to the podium.

Melnikova performed both a DTY and an FTY on vault, with her leg form looking pretty messy on both. On bars, she had a pretty standard Russian set, beginning with a clean Komova II to pak salto and also including a van Leeuwen, Tkatchev, and near-stuck full-in dismount.

Though she began with a rough switch ring on beam, she nailed her bhs bhs layout, taking a quick pause before going into her jump series. There was a break between her front aerial to sheep jump and a wobble on her side somi, and she hit her double tuck dismount with just a step back. On floor, she showed a messy piked full-in, the Russian compulsory whip whip through to double back (which looked gorgeous, and she stuck!), a double full, and a stuck double pike.

Laird, who had some success at Coupe Avenir in Belgium last weekend, looked solid on vault and floor, while Crisan looked tidy on vault, dynamic on beam, and sharp on floor, and probably should have won the silver medal as she overall is a stronger gymnast, though her bars were so rough, she was unable to overcome the issues there, finishing just 0.05 behind Laird for bronze.

Like Crisan, Amy Tinkler of Great Britain looked strong but absolutely fell apart on bars and had issues on beam as well. Her FTY was super clean, however, and showed promise on floor, finishing in 10th place about 1.4 points behind Laird. I thought Marine Boyer of France had a lovely bars set, her teammate Juliette Bossu was beautiful on beam, and the little Czech gymnast Aneta Holasova was impressive on vault and floor.

Full all-around results are below, and we’ll link videos as we find them. Event finals were held on Sunday; look forward to our report to come!

All-Around Results

Rank	Athlete	Nation	VT	UB	BB	FX	AA
1	Angelina Melnikova	Russia	14.500	14.500	14.200	13.750	56.950
2	Sydney Laird	Canada	13.600	12.500	13.050	13.600	52.750
3	Ioana Crisan	Romania	14.000	11.300	14.150	13.250	52.700
4	Juliette Bossu	France	13.350	12.550	13.650	12.750	52.300
5	Sydney Soloski	Canada	13.900	11.900	13.050	13.200	52.050
	Marine Boyer	France	14.000	13.250	11.400	13.400	52.050
7	Senna Deriks	Belgium	13.550	12.700	12.050	13.400	51.550
8	Anastasia Dmitrieva	Russia	13.950	11.000	13.200	13.400	51.550
9	Aneta Holasova	Czech Republic	13.750	11.650	12.500	13.500	51.400
10	Maellyse Brassart	Belgium	14.050	11.550	13.250	12.450	51.300
	Amy Tinkler	Great Britain	14.250	10.150	13.000	13.900	51.300
	Olivia Cimpian	Romania	14.000	11.550	12.650	13.100	51.300
13	Meaghan Ruttan	Canada	13.150	12.100	12.300	13.050	50.600
14	Nina Derwael	Belgium	13.650	11.900	11.900	13.050	50.500
	Enya Pouliot	Canada	13.350	11.400	12.950	12.800	50.500
16	Dyonnailys Supriana	Netherlands	13.800	13.050	10.400	13.000	50.250
17	Tzuf Feldon	Israel	12.500	12.600	12.950	11.950	50.000
18	Chloé Leblicq	Belgium	13.050	11.000	12.800	12.550	49.400
19	Véronika Sebakova	Czech Republic	12.850	12.150	11.100	12.600	48.700
20	Goldie Harder	Canada	13.050	8.600	12.900	12.350	46.900
21	Morgan Spruijtenburg	Netherlands	12.700	10.650	10.900	12.450	46.700
22	Carlota Miserachs	Spain	12.600	9.400	11.150	11.900	45.050
23	Kitti Honti	Hungary	13.800	7.150	10.800	12.350	44.100
24	Sofia Iribarren	Spain	12.650	7.850	11.450	11.650	43.600
25	Noa Dooga	Israel	12.750	8.750	10.550	10.500	42.550
26	Sara Peter	Hungary	13.200	7.650	8.750	11.250	40.850
27	Imane Balad	Morocco	13.200	7.600	8.350	9.250	38.400