Galina Nikolaevna Melnik

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Galina Nikolajewna Melnik, 2006

Galina Nikolajewna Melnik ( Russian Галина Николаевна Мельник ; born April 27, 1970 in Moscow ) is a Russian table tennis player . She won team gold at the 1995 European Championships.

successes

In Russia, Melnik played for the MGFSO Dynamo Moscow club. In 1998 she won the Russian championship in the three disciplines singles, doubles and mixed.

Melnik took part in six European championships , ten world championships and three Olympic Games from 1989 to 2004 . She achieved her best result at World Championships in 1995 when she came fifth with the Russian women's team. Otherwise she did not come close to the medal ranks at World Championships and Olympic Games.

At the European Championships in 1994 in Birmingham, she won gold with the Russian team. She reached the semi-finals at an EM in 1990 in doubles and in 1996 in mixed.

She was successful at the European ranking tournaments TOP-12 with fifth place in 2002 and third place in 2003. In September 1994 she took 50th place in the ITTF world rankings .

Germany

In 1994 Melnik joined the TTV Andernach and in 1998 the then regional league team FSV Kroppach . In 1999, she helped the women to be promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga and a year later to the 1st Bundesliga . In 2002 she became German team champion with Kroppach. In 2003 she moved to the Netherlands for two years at NAK Den Helder Norrdkop. The other stations:

Private

Melnik has one child (* 2006).

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
RUS  European Championship  2003  Courmayeur  ITA   last 16  Quarter finals     
RUS  European Championship  1998  Eindhoven  NED   last 16    Quarter finals   
RUS  European Championship  1996  Bratislava  SVK       Semifinals   
RUS  European Championship  1994  Birmingham  CLOSELY         1
URS  European Championship  1992  Stuttgart  GER   last 16      Semifinals 
URS  European Championship  1990  Gothenburg  SWE     Semifinals  Quarter finals   
RUS  EURO TOP12  2003  Saarbrücken  GER   3rd place       
RUS  EURO TOP12  2002  Rotterdam  NED   5       
RUS  Olympic games  2004  Athens  GRE     last 32     
RUS  Olympic games  2000  Sydney  OUT   last 32  immediately excluded     
EUN  Olympic games  1992  Barcelona  ESP   immediately excluded  immediately excluded     
RUS  Pro tour  2004  Aarhus  THE   last 16  last 16     
RUS  Pro tour  2004  Rio de Janeiro  BRA   last 16  Quarter finals     
RUS  Pro tour  2003  Aarhus  THE   last 64       
RUS  Pro tour  2003  Bremen  GER   last 32       
RUS  Pro tour  2003  Doha  QAT   Quarter finals  Quarter finals     
RUS  Pro tour  2003  Croatia  HRV   last 32       
RUS  Pro tour  2002  Farum  THE   last 32  Quarter finals     
RUS  Pro tour  2002  Eindhoven  NED   last 16       
RUS  Pro tour  2002  Magdeburg  GER   last 64  last 16     
RUS  Pro tour  2001  Farum  THE   last 32  Quarter finals     
RUS  Pro tour  2001  Rotterdam  NED   Quarter finals       
RUS  Pro tour  2001  Bayreuth  GER   last 16  last 32     
RUS  Pro tour  2000  Rio de Janeiro  BRA   last 32  Rd 1     
RUS  Pro tour  1999  Bremen  GER   Rd 1  Rd 1     
RUS  Pro tour  1998  Courmayeur  ITA   last 32  Rd 1     
RUS  Pro tour  1997  Squid  SWE   Rd 1  last 16     
RUS  Pro tour  1997  Linz  AUT   last 32  Rd 1     
RUS  Pro tour  1996  Kettering  CLOSELY     Quarter finals     
RUS  World Championship  2004  Doha  QAT         7th 
RUS  World Championship  2003  Paris  FRA   last 64  last 32  last 32   
RUS  World Championship  2001  Osaka  JPN   last 128  last 16  last 32  23 
RUS  World Championship  2000  Kuala Lumpur  MAS         9-12 
EUN  World Championship  1999  Eindhoven  NED   last 64  last 64  last 64   
RUS  World Championship  1997  Manchester  CLOSELY   last 64  last 32  last 64  9 
RUS  World Championship  1995  Tianjin  CHN   last 32  last 64  last 16  9 
RUS  World Championship  1993  Gothenburg  SWE   last 64  last 16  no participants  5 
URS  World Championship  1991  Chiba City  JPN   last 64  last 32  last 64  8th 
URS  World Championship  1989  Dortmund  FRG   last 128  last 16  last 32  9 
URS  World Doubles Cup  1990  Seoul  COR     9     
RUS  WTC World Team Cup  1995  Atlanta  United States         5 
RUS  WTC World Team Cup  1994  Nimes  FRA         1
URS  WTC World Team Cup  1991  Barcelona  ESP         9 

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Galina Nikolajewna Melnik in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed on September 16, 2010)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/4 page 17
  3. ↑ http://stason.org/TULARC/sports/table-tennis/3-6-2-Table-Tennis-Women-World-Rank-List-Sep94.html (accessed on September 16, 2010)
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 10 + 1994/8 page 33
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/6 page 8
  6. ↑ http://sport11.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=889:tischtennis-regionalliga-frauen&catid=100:tischtennis&Itemid=471 (accessed on September 16, 2010)
  7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: (accessed on September 16, 2010)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadtwerke-troisdorf.de
  8. ↑ Galina Nikolajewna Melnik Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 12, 2011)

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personal data
SURNAME Melnik, Galina Nikolaevna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melnik, Galina Nikolajewna; Мельник, Галина Николаевна; Melnik, Galina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , Soviet Union