Hanna Melnychenko

Hanna Anatolijiwna Melnytschenko (Ukrainian Ганна Анатоліївна Мельниченко; born April 24, 1983 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR) is a Ukrainian heptathlete.

Melnytschenko earned their first heptathlon in 2002 and reached 5083 points. Already in its second competition she won in July 2003 with 5523 points, the Ukrainian championship. In 2006, she excelled in Arles with 6055 points for the first time the 6000 -point mark; at the European Championships in 2006 she finished with 5942 points, the 16th Place. According to a tenth place finish at the European Indoor Championships in 2007 they improved at the European Cup in Szczecin their personal best to 6143 points. At the World Championships in 2007, she gave up in the first discipline.

In 2008, she excelled in all six competitions their previous best performance, the highest score reached in Kiev in July with 6348 points. At the Olympic Games in 2008, she was awarded 6165 points 14 In 2009, it increased with a second place in the all-around meeting Götzis on 6445 points. At the 2009 World Championships she reached the sixth place with 6414 points. In 2010 she excelled in six seven fights only twice the 6,000 -point mark, at the European Championships, she joined after three invalid attempts in the long jump at not more to the final 800 - meter race.

At the World Indoor Championships 2012, she finished seventh and at the Olympic Games in London, she came to tenth place. In March 2013, it won the bronze medal in the pentathlon with 4604 points at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. In August 2013, it was with 6586 points in Moscow Heptathlon World Champion. All three medal winners in the heptathlon for the 2012 Olympics in London were missing due to injuries.