Margarita Mkrtchyan

Margarita Mkrtchyan
Personal information
Full name Margarita Mkrtchyan
Nationality  Russia
Born (1981-04-06) 6 April 1981
Voronezh, Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 12 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport Taekwondo
Event(s) 57 kg
Club CSKA Moscow
Coached by Boris Zenkin

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]

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