Senior career 2016 ĭe 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. Due to the injury, she was unable to compete for several months. During the qualification round of the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival, she tore her ACL while performing a double twisting Yurchenko vault. She helped the French team finish fourth at the 2015 FIT Challenge, and she also placed fourth in the all-around. She also finished fifth on the uneven bars and floor exercise. Junior career Īt the 2015 French Championships, de Jesus dos Santos placed second in the all-around behind Lorette Charpy. She speaks French, English and Martinican Creole. She moved to Saint-Etienne in mainland France in 2013 to join the French national team and to train with Eric and Monique Hagard. She began gymnastics at age five at a club in La Trinité. She has two half-sisters who live in Portugal with their father.
Her father is Portuguese and her mother is Martinican. She is the 2017, 2018, and 2019 French all-around champion, and she won the Longines Prize for Elegance in 2019.ĭe Jesus dos Santos was born in Schœlcher, Martinique. 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 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 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. Mélanie Johanna de Jesus dos Santos (born 5 March 2000) is a French artistic gymnast.