Margarita Mkrtchyan
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| Full name | Margarita Mkrtchyan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Russia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
6 April 1981 Voronezh, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 57 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | CSKA Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Boris Zenkin | ||||||||||||||||||
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Margarita Mkrtchyan (Russian: Маргарита Гегамовна Мкртчян; born April 6, 1981 in Voronezh) is a Russian taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the women's featherweight category.[1] She claimed three medals (two silvers and one bronze) in the women's 55 and 59-kg classes at the European Championships and also finished seventh in the 57-kg division at the 2004 Summer Olympics, representing her nation Russia.[2] Mkrtchyan also trained as a full-fledged member of the taekwondo team for CSKA Moscow under her personal coach and master Boris Zenkin.[3]
Mkrtchyan qualified for the Russian squad in the women's featherweight class (57 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing second behind Spain's Sonia Reyes and granting a berth from the European Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan.[2][4][5] She crashed out in an opening round defeat to U.S. taekwondo fighter Nia Abdallah with a score of 9–16, but slipped into the repechage bracket for her chance of an Olympic bronze medal, following Abdallah's progress towards the final match.[3][6] In the repechage, Mkrtchyan subsided her Olympic medal chance by losing the first playoff 2–5 to her Italian opponent and two-time Olympian Cristiana Corsi, relegating the Russian to seventh position.[7][8]
References
- ↑ "Margarita Mkrtchyan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- 1 2 "Маргарита МКРТЧЯН: "В тхэквондо меня привели Ван Дамм и Джеки Чан"" [Margarita Mkrtchyan: "I was inspired by Van Damme and Jackie Chan to play taekwondo"] (in Russian). Izvestia. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- 1 2 "Тхэквондо. Мкртчян проиграла американке" [Taekwondo: Mkrtchyan lost to the American] (in Russian). Sovetsky Sport. 27 August 2004. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ↑ "Athens 2004: Taekwondo – Women's Entry List by NOC" (PDF). Athens 2004. LA84 Foundation. pp. 5–7. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ↑ "Тренерский перевес" [Coaching advantage] (in Russian). Novoye Vremya. 5 August 2004. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ↑ "Abdallah takes silver; African taekwondo athlete knocked out". USA Today. 27 August 2004. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
- ↑ "Taekwondo – Women's Featherweight (57kg/126lbs) Repechage Round 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ↑ "Тхэквондо. Мкртчян проиграла и в утешительном раунде" [Taekwondo: Mkrtchyan lost in the consolation round] (in Russian). Sovetsky Sport. 27 August 2004. Retrieved 13 January 2015.