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
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport	Taekwondo
Event(s)	57 kg
Club	CSKA Moscow
Coached by	Boris Zenkin
Medal record Women's taekwondo Representing Russia European Championships 2002 Samsun 59 kg 2008 Rome 55 kg 2004 Lillehammer 55 kg

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. 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. Mkrtchyan also trained as a full-fledged member of the taekwondo team for CSKA Moscow under her personal coach and master Boris Zenkin.

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. 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. 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.

External links

• Profile – Taekwondo Data