Galina Nikolaevna Melnik
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:
- 2005/2006 TTC Spich
- 2006–2009 TTK Anröchte
- since 2009 TTC Mülheim-Urmitz (regional league)
Private
Melnik has one child (* 2006).
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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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
- ^ Galina Nikolajewna Melnik in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed on September 16, 2010)
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/4 page 17
- ↑ http://stason.org/TULARC/sports/table-tennis/3-6-2-Table-Tennis-Women-World-Rank-List-Sep94.html (accessed on September 16, 2010)
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/4 page 10 + 1994/8 page 33
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/6 page 8
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: (accessed on September 16, 2010)
- ↑ Galina Nikolajewna Melnik Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 12, 2011)
Web links
- Brief portrait (Russian) (accessed on September 16, 2010)
- European Adult Championships (accessed January 11, 2016)
- Change of club in the national leagues ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on September 16, 2010)
personal data | |
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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 |