46 Facts About Melitina Staniouta

Melitina Dmitryevna Staniouta is a Belarusian retired individual rhythmic gymnast.

Melitina Staniouta is a three-time World all-around bronze medalist, the 2015 European Games all-around bronze medalist, the 2014 European Championships all-around silver medalist, and 2009 Grand Prix Final all-around bronze medalist.

Melitina Staniouta was one of 400 Belarusian athletes to publicly criticize the election results of the 2020 presidential election in Belarus.

Melitina Staniouta won a number of junior medals, including at the 2008 European Junior Championships, where she won the silver medal in ribbon and rope.

In 2009, Melitina Staniouta debuted as a senior and won two medals at the 2009 World Championships in Mie.

Melitina Staniouta won bronze in the rope event at the Rhythmic Gymnastics FIG World Cup Series in Pesaro 2009 and All-around at the 2009 Grand Prix Final in Berlin.

Melitina Staniouta repeated her success in 2010 and won the bronze medal in the All-around at the World Cup Series' last stage.

Melitina Staniouta was the all around bronze medalist and won a bronze in rope finals at the 2010 World Championships, she broke her foot during competition but continued to compete.

Melitina Staniouta suffered a broken finger, leg and collarbone in 2010.

In 2011, Melitina Staniouta continued to struggled with injuries throughout the World Cup and Grand Prix season.

In 2012, Melitina Staniouta competed at the 2012 European Championships and finished 6th in All-around.

Melitina Staniouta competed in her first Olympics in 2012 London and finished 12th at the qualifications but did not advance to the Top 10 finals.

Melitina Staniouta returned to competition in the 2013 season under the new Code of Points system in rhythmic gymnastics.

Melitina Staniouta won the silver medal in all-around at the first World Cup series held in Tartu, Estonia.

At the Thiais Grand Prix, Melitina Staniouta won bronze medal in clubs, hoop and ribbon finals.

At the second World Cup series of the season held in Lisbon, Portugal, Melitina Staniouta won the silver medal in ribbon and bronze in clubs final.

Melitina Staniouta won her first World Cup all-around gold medal at the 2013 Irina Deleanu Cup, edging out Ukrainian Alina Maksymenko and Russian Daria Svatkovskaya.

Melitina Staniouta won the 2013 World Cup Pesaro in the all-around, beating Russians Maria Titova and Daria Svatkovskaya for the gold.

Melitina Staniouta won three gold medals at the event finals in ball, clubs and ribbon.

At the 2013 Corbeil-Essonnes World Cup, Melitina Staniouta won the silver in the all-around.

Melitina Staniouta then competed at the 2013 European Championships in Vienna, Austria and together with her teammates won the Team bronze medal.

Melitina Staniouta won bronze in the hoop and clubs finals.

Melitina Staniouta won the all-around bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships with an overall score of 72.166 points.

Melitina Staniouta won the silver medal in the all-around finals ahead of Mamun.

Melitina Staniouta began the 2014 season by competing at LA Lights and won the all-around gold medal ahead of Rizatdinova.

Melitina Staniouta finished seventh in all-around at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix and won a bronze medal in ball.

Melitina Staniouta competed at the 2014 Stuttgart World Cup where she finished fourth in all-around.

Melitina Staniouta then won silver in all-around at the 2014 Lisboa World Cup.

Melitina Staniouta finished eighth in the all-around and won the bronze medal in the clubs final.

Melitina Staniouta won silver in the individual all-around competition, which was the first all-around medal for a Belarusian gymnast since 14 years prior when Yulia Raskina won silver at the 2000 European Championships in Zaragoza.

Melitina Staniouta placed fourth in ribbon and seventh in clubs.

Melitina Staniouta represented the Team Dinamo club together with senior teammate Katsiaryna Halkina and junior Mariya Trubach.

Melitina Staniouta won the all-around bronze medal in the finals ahead of Ganna Rizatdinova.

Melitina Staniouta then competed at the 2015 Baltic Hoop and won the all-around gold ahead of senior debutant Irina Annenkova.

At the 2015 European Championships in Minsk, Melitina Staniouta won a total of five medals: silver in the team event and the hoop and ribbon finals and bronze with clubs and ball.

At the 2015 Grand Prix Berlin, Melitina Staniouta won the all-around silver behind Margarita Mamun.

At the 2015 World Cup series in Kazan, Melitina Staniouta finished 4th in the all-around behind Aleksandra Soldatova.

Melitina Staniouta won bronze in ball and placed fourth in the other apparatus finals.

In 2016, Melitina Staniouta began her season by competing at the 2016 Grand Prix Moscow, finishing 5th in the all-around.

At the 30th Thiais Grand Prix event in Paris, Melitina Staniouta won the all-around bronze ahead of Ganna Rizatdinova.

Melitina Staniouta further won a silver in the ribbon final and three more bronze medals in hoop, ball and clubs.

Melitina Staniouta won bronze in the all-around at the 2016 Minsk World Cup with a total of 73.950 points.

Melitina Staniouta won silver in ribbon final and placed 5th in the other three apparatus finals.

Melitina Staniouta won silver in the ribbon final and bronze with ball and clubs.

Melitina Staniouta has appeared in a commercial ad for Bon Aqua.

Melitina Staniouta is one of Belarus' United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Celebrity representatives.