Yeva Yaroslavivna Meleshchuk (, born 29 September 2001 in

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) is a Ukrainian group and former individual

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. She is the

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Clubs gold medalist. On national level, she is the 2018 Ukrainian National All-around champion and the 2020 Ukrainian National All-around silver medalist.

Career

Junior

She competed at the 2016 Junior European Championships in

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and placed 6th in Team competition together with

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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

. 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

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

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. 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

and

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. 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 2020 Summer Olympic Games in

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, where Yeva and her group (integrated to Anastasiya Voznyak, Mariia Vysochanska, Daryna Duda, Mariola Bodnarchuk 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

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. 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 Anastasiya Voznyak and Mariia Vysochanska Where it appears again at the

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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

), and in the 2023 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships in

, the Ukrainian team made up of Yelyzaveta Azza, Daryna Duda, Mariia Vysochanska, Diana Baieva, Anastasiya Voznyak 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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