Mélanie Johanna de Jesus dos Santos (born 5 March 2000)[2] is a French artistic gymnast. She was a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2023 World Championships. She is the 2019 European all-around champion, a two time European champion on the floor exercise (2018, 2019), and the 2021 European champion on the balance beam. She is also the 2018 European silver medalist with the French team, the 2019 European silver medalist on the balance beam, and the 2017 European bronze medalist in the all-around. She represented France at the 2020 Summer Olympics where she placed sixth with the team and on the uneven bars and eleventh in the all-around. She is the 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2024 French all-around champion, and she won the Longines Prize for Elegance in 2019.
Personal life
De Jesus dos Santos was born in Schœlcher, Martinique, a French island. Her father is Portuguese and her mother is Martinican. She has two half-sisters, who live in Portugal with their father.[3] She began gymnastics at age five at a club in La Trinité.[4] She moved to Saint-Étienne in mainland France in 2013 to join the French national team and to train with Eric and Monique Hagard.[5][6] She speaks French, English, and Martinican Creole.[1]
In 2022, she moved to World Champions Centre in Texas to train with Laurent and Cecile Landi.
Junior career
At the 2015 French Championships, de Jesus dos Santos placed second in the all-around behind Lorette Charpy. She also finished fifth on the uneven bars and floor exercise.[7] She helped the French team finish fourth at the 2015 FIT Challenge, and she also placed fourth in the all-around.[8] During the qualification round of the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival, she tore her ACL while performing a double twisting Yurchenkovault. Due to the injury, she was unable to compete for several months.[9]
Senior career
2016
De Jesus dos Santos returned to competition in June at the French National Championships in Mulhouse, placing fourth in the all-around, balance beam, and floor exercise.[9] She was not selected for France's 2016 Olympic team.[10] In July, she helped France win a dual meet against Romania, and she won the all-around gold medal.[11] At the Joaquim Blume Memorial in November, she won the silver medal in the all-around behind Belgium's Nina Derwael.[12] She ended her season at the Élite Gym Massilia where she won the balance beam gold medal, the team silver medal, and the all-around bronze medal, and placed fourth on the uneven bars.[13]
2017
In March, de Jesus dos Santos competed in the American Cup, where she won the bronze medal behind Ragan Smith and Asuka Teramoto. She became the second French gymnast to medal at the American Cup after Elvire Teza won the gold medal in 1997.[14][15] She then competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy where she placed fourth with the team and on the balance beam, eighth on the uneven bars, and ninth in the all-around.[16]
De Jesus dos Santos became the French all-around champion, beating reigning champion Marine Boyer by 1.400 points with a total score of 55.450. She also won a silver medal on the balance beam.[18] She then won the silver medal on the uneven bars at the Paris World Challenge Cup.[19] At the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, she finished fifth in the all-around.[20] After the World Championships, she competed at the Élite Gym Massilia where she won gold medals with the team and on the uneven bars. She also won the silver medal in the all-around behind Angelina Simakova and placed fourth on the floor exercise.[21] Her final competition of the season was the Toyota International, where she won the uneven bars gold medal and the balance beam silver medal behind Sanne Wevers.[22]
2018
At the Doha World Cup, de Jesus dos Santos won the bronze medal on the uneven bars and the gold medal on the balance beam.[23] She then won the bronze medal in the all-around at the Tokyo World Cup behind Mai Murakami and Trinity Thomas.[24] In May, she received three gold medals at the French Championships in the all-around, uneven bars, and floor exercise.[25] She defended her all-around title at the French Championships and also won gold medals on the uneven bars and the floor exercise.[26] She also won the all-around gold medal at the Sainté Gym Cup and helped France win over Germany and Switzerland.[27]
At the Paris World Challenge Cup, de Jesus dos Santos won the gold medal on floor exercise.[31] She was selected to compete at the World Championships alongside Juliette Bossu, Lorette Charpy, Marine Boyer, and Louise Vanhille. The team qualified into the team final for the first time at a major international competition since the 2008 Olympic Games.[32] The team ultimately finished fifth in the team final, their best finish at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships since 1997.[33] Individually, de Jesus dos Santos qualified for the all-around and floor exercise finals and finished sixth in both.[34][35] After the World Championships, she competed at the Swiss Cup on a mixed team with Julien Gobaux, and they finished ninth.[36]
2019
De Jesus dos Santos competed at the EnBW DTB-Pokal Team Challenge in Stuttgart where France placed fourth in the team final.[37] She was selected to compete at the European Championships alongside Marine Boyer, Lorette Charpy, and Coline Devillard.[38] She won the all-around gold medal ahead of the 2017 European Champion Ellie Downie.[39] In the event finals, she successfully defended her floor exercise title, won silver on balance beam behind Alice Kinsella of Great Britain, and finished seventh on uneven bars. This made her the most decorated female gymnast of the championships, tied with Angelina Melnikova of Russia. She was the first French gymnast to ever win three medals at a single European Championships.[40]
In June, de Jesus dos Santos won her third consecutive French all-around title, and she won the uneven bars and floor exercise titles.[41] On 3 September, she was named to the team to compete at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany alongside Lorette Charpy, Marine Boyer, Coline Devillard, and Aline Friess.[42] Later that month she competed at the Paris Challenge Cup where she won gold on uneven bars and placed seventh on balance beam.[43] Then during the qualification round at the World Championships, she led the French team to qualify to the team final in fourth place behind the United States, China, and Russia. Individually, she qualified to the all-around final in third place behind Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee of the United States, the balance beam final in sixth place, and the floor exercise final in fifth place.[44] In the team final, de Jesus dos Santos contributed an all-around score of 55.498 to help France finish in fifth place.[45] This result qualified France for a team spot at the 2020 Olympic Games.[46] In the all-around final, she fell off the uneven bars twice and finished all the way down in twentieth place.[47] In event finals, she still finished off the podium, placing fifth on beam and fifth again on floor. She was awarded the Longines Prize for Elegance alongside American Sam Mikulak.[48]
2020–21
In February, it was announced that de Jesus dos Santos would represent France at the 2020 Tokyo World Cup.[49] However, the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.[50] She did not compete in any international competitions in 2020.[51]
De Jesus dos Santos competed at the 2021 European Championships in Basel. During the qualification round, she only competed on the uneven bars, where she fell, and the balance beam, where she qualified to the event final. During the event finals, she won gold on the balance beam, becoming the first French European Champion on the apparatus.[52] Then at the FIT Challenge, she helped France win the team gold medal, and she won the all-around gold medal and the uneven bars silver medal behind Nina Derwael.[53]
In September de Jesus dos Santos competed at the Paris World Challenge Cup where she won gold on the uneven bars and on floor exercise.
She next competed at the 2023 World Championships alongside Marine Boyer, Lorette Charpy, Coline Devillard, Morgane Osyssek-Reimer, and alternate Djenna Laroui. Together they won the bronze medal in the team event, which was the first World Championships team medal for France since 1950.[62][63] De Jesus dos Santos competed next in the all-around final where she ended up placing tenth.
She ended the year competing at the Arthur Gander Memorial, where she placed second behind Julia Soares of Brazil,[64] and the Swiss Cup where she was partnered with Jim Zona; they finished fifth.
2024
In March 2024, de Jesus dos Santos announced that she was working on a new uneven bars routine[65] after struggling to compete successfully her older routine counting multiple falls on her Nabieva release. She chose to bring back inbar stalders in her routine allowing her to increase the difficulty while shortening her routine. She also announced that was working on a new floor routine using Ezio Bosso's music choreographed by French dancer and choreographer Gregory Milan.[65]
In March, she competed at the World Challenge Cup in Antalya where she won gold on the uneven bars and won bronze on floor exercise.[66] In April she competed at the World Challenge Cup in Osijek, Croatia. She won two gold medals – one on the uneven bars and one on floor exercise; additionally she won bronze on balance beam.[67] De Jesus does Santos announced that she would skip the 2024 European Championships in order to focus on perfecting her routines in preparation for the 2024 Olympic Games.[65]
In July de Jesus dos Santos was officially selected to represent France at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Marine Boyer, Coline Devillard, Morgane Osyssek, and Ming van Eijken.[68] During the qualification round the French team suffered multiple mishaps. De Jesus dos Santos fell off the uneven bars while performing her routine, grabbed the balance beam while performing on that apparatus, and fell on floor exercise while performing her double layout.[69] As a result the French team finished eleventh and did not advance to the team final.[70] Additionally de Jesus dos Santos did not qualify for any individual finals but was the third reserve for the individual all-around final.
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