Yeva Yaroslavivna Meleshchuk ( ukr, Єва Ярославівна Мелещук, born 29 September 2001 in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...

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) is a

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group and former individual

rhythmic gymnast Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance and calisthenics; gymnasts must be strong, flexible, agile, dexterous and co ...

. She is the

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Clubs gold medalist. On national level, she is the 2018

National All-around champion and the 2020

National All-around silver medalist.

Career

Junior

She competed at the 2016 Junior European Championships in Holon,

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and placed 6th in Team competition together with

Olena Diachenko Olena Ihorivna Diachenko ( uk, Олена Ігорівна Д'яченко, born 15 June 2001) is a Ukrainian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the two-time (2015–16) Ukrainian Junior National champion. Career Junior Diachenko began app ...

and Khrystyna Pohranychna. She placed 26th in Rope and 16th in Clubs Qualifications.

Senior

In 2017, she became senior. She won bronze medal with Ribbon at the 2017 Ukrainian Championships. She competed with Ribbon at the 2017 European Championships in

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and placed 6th in Team competition. In 2018, she qualified to Hoop final at World Challenge Cup Guadalajara and finished on 8th place. This was her first World Cup final. She won bronze medal in Ribbon final at Grand Prix in Holon,

. Yeva also competed at the

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and placed 12th in All-around. Same year, she won gold medal in All-around at Ukrainian Championships and earned a spot at the 2018 World Championships in

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. She placed 28th in All-around and 5th in Team competition. In 2019, she won bronze medal in All-around at Ukrainian Championships. She also won gold in Clubs final and silver medals in all other apparatus finals. She won silver medal in Ribbon final at Grand Prix Kyiv. At the 2019 World Challenge Cup Guadalajara she won her first World Cup medal - silver in Ball final, and placed 5th in All-around. She finished on 5th place again at the 2019 World Challenge Cup Portimao and took silver medal in Ribbon final. She competed at the

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and won gold medal in Clubs final and bronze medal in Hoop and Ribbon finals. Her second

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participation was at the 2019 World Championships in Baku,

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where she competed with Clubs and Ribbon, and helped her teammates

Vlada Nikolchenko Vlada Ihorivna Nikolchenko ( uk, Влада Ігорівна Нікольченко; born 9 December 2002) is a retired Ukrainian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2019 Worlds clubs bronze medalist, the double (2018-19) World Cup Series wi ...

and Khrystyna Pohranychna place 5th in Team competition. In 2020, she competed at Grand Prix Kyiv and won bronze medal in Ball final behind

Alina Harnasko Alina Aliaksandraŭna Harnasko ( be, Аліна Аляксандраўна Гарнасько; russian: Али́на Александро́вна Горносько́; born 9 August 2001) is a Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast and former jun ...

and

Anastasiia Salos Anastasiia Maksimovna Salos ( be, Настасся Максімаўна Салас; russian: Анастасия Максимовна Салос; born 18 February 2002) is an individual rhythmic gymnast representing Belarus. She is the 2020 Europ ...

. She also took part in 2020 European Championships in

and finished on 6th place in All-around Final. In 2021, she started the competition season at the 2021 World Cup Sofia and finished on 18th place in All-around and 6th place in Clubs final. Two weeks after competing as an individual in Sofia, Yeva competed in the Two weeks after competing as an individual in Sofia, competed in the 2021 World Cup Tashkent with the Ukrainian group. Also appeared in Baku and Pesaro. They also competed at the 2021 European Championships in

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, and prior to the

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, at the

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Grand Prix . She was selected to represent

at the

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, Japan, where Yeva and her group (integrated to

Anastasiya Voznyak Anastasiya Romanivna Voznyak ( uk, Анастасія Романівна Возняк; born 9 December 1998) is a Ukrainian female rhythmic gymnast. Voznyak competed alongside London 2012 Olympians Olena Dmytrash, Yevgeniya Gomon, Valeriia Gudy ...

Mariia Vysochanska Mariia Olehivna Vysochanska ( uk, Марія Олегівна Височанська; born on September 10, 2002, in Lviv) is a Ukrainian female rhythmic gymnast Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an app ...

Daryna Duda Daryna Volodymyrivna Duda ( uk, Дарина Володимирівна Дуда; born 29 November 2003) is a Ukrainian group rhythmic gymnast. She was the second youngest athlete who represented Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Career She w ...

Mariola Bodnarchuk Mariola Pavlivna Bodnarchuk ( uk, Маріола Павлівна Боднарчук; born on March 23, 2002, in Lviv) is a Ukrainian female rhythmic gymnast Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an apparat ...

and Meleshchuk) took 7th place in Group All-around final. Yeva had announced her retirement from gymnastics in October 2021 through her social networks, while the Ukrainian team competed in the World Championship in Kitakyushu. At the end of 2022, it was also seen through social networks that Meleshchuk had returned to the Ukrainian group along with some of her colleagues who were at the

, such as

and

Where it appears again at the Tartu Grand Prix in February 2023, where Ukraine won gold in the All-Around. They also competed in the Marbella Grand Prix, and in some of the FIG World Cup events (

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(Athens) and Baku), and in the

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in Baku, the Ukrainian team made up of Yelyzaveta Azza,

, Diana Baieva,

and Meleshchuk were fourth in the all-around. Soon in the following competitions Meleshchuk and Voznyak were not selected to compete again.

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