Margarita Kolosov

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Margarita Kolosov
Margarita Kolosov 2023 World Cup Tashkent.jpg
Full nameMargarita Kolosov
Nickname(s)Marga
Born (2004-03-11) 11 March 2004 (age 21)
Potsdam, Germany
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Country
represented
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
(2017–present)
ClubSC Potsdam/TSV Schmiden/Berlin TSC
GymBundesstützpunkt Schmiden
Head coach(es) Yulia Raskina [1]
ChoreographerGocha Budagashvili [2]
World ranking 9 ( 2024 Season) [3]
7 ( 2023 Season) [4]
6 ( 2022 Season) [5]
Medal record
Event1st2nd3rd
World Championships 020
Summer Universiade 100
FIG World Cup 337
Total457
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Representing Flag of Germany.svg Germany
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Sofia Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Valencia Team
Summer Universiade
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Rhine-Rhur Ball
Last updated on: 10 August 2025.

Margarita Kolosov (born 11 March 2004) is a German rhythmic gymnast. [6] She is a two-time (2021, 2024) German all-around champion. [7] She is also a two-time (2022, 2023) World team silver medalist. Margarita has been competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the women's rhythmic individual all-around, where she came in fourth place.

Contents

Kolosov has been training at the federal base in Fellbach with Yuliya Raskina since 2016. [8]

Personal life

She has two sisters, Alissa and Victoria. [9] In 2020, Kolosov, together with numerous athletes, appeared in the music video by Tim Bendzko for the song "HOCH" (OLYMPIA TEAM D VERSION). [10] She studies psychology at AKAD University in Stuttgart. [11]

Career

Together with her sister, Kolosov started training rhythmic gymnastics at SC Potsdam in 2010 at the age of 6. [12] Her main ambition was to compete at the Olympics, like her idol Margarita Mamun, at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [13]

Junior

In August 2016, Kolosov moved from SC Potsdam to the federal training base in Fellbach. [13] From 2017 to 2019, she was German Junior Champion in the all-around. While she won only one final in 2017, she won all four gold medals in the following two years. [14]

In 2018, she and Emeli Erbes competed at the 2018 European Championships in Guadalajara, Spain. Since the German senior group retired shortly before the competition, they could not participate in the team category, which required a senior group. Kolosov was 14th in the all-around among the juniors. [15]

Senior

In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kolosov was only able to take part in a few competitions in her first senior season. In 2021 she competed for the first time at the German Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in the senior category and won all the gold medals in the individual competitions. [16] At her first European Senior Championships in Varna, she qualified for the all-round final, finishing 24th. She also reached the all-around final at the World Championships in Kitakyūshū and finished 16th, the best result of a German individual gymnast since 2013. [17] At the end of the year, she and the team of the Berlin TSC finished second in the rhythmic gymnastics bundesliga. [18]

2022

She started the 2022 season competing at World Cup Athens, where she won bronze with ball and silver with ribbon. At the World Cup in Sofia, she finished 11th in the all-around and 8th in the ball final. In Tashkent, she was 4th in the all-around behind her teammate Darja Varfolomeev as well as in the hoop final. She won Germany's first World Cup gold medal in the ball final. [19] She also earned silver with clubs and was 5th in the ribbon final. In Pamplona, she ended 9th in the all-around, qualifying only for the ball final, where she ended in 8th, and hoop, where she won gold. [20] In June she competed alongside Helena Ripken in Pesaro, where she was 7th in the all-around and 4th in the ball final. [21]

Kolosov then competed at the European Championships in Tel Aviv, along with Varfolomeev, the senior group and the two juniors Lada Pusch and Anna-Maria Shatokhin; she was 15th in the all-around, 7th with hoop, 5th with ball, and 29th with ribbon. [22] At the World Cup in Cluj-Napoca, she was 18th in the all-around and didn't qualify for finals. [23] Kolosov was also selected for the World Championships in Sofia along with Varfolomeev and the senior group, where she won silver in the team event. [24]

2023

In 2023 she showed her clubs routine in the Italian clubs championship's first stage, where she competed for Pontevecchio Bologna. [25] In March she won silver in the all-around at the Fellnach-Schmiden Tournament and qualified for all four apparatus finals. In the finals, she also won silver with ribbon and ball. [26] At the first World Cup of the season in Athens, she made some mistakes and qualified only for the ribbon and clubs finals. She finished 8th in the ribbon final and won gold with the clubs. [27]

At the 2023 World Championships, she was 12th in the all-around final and qualified for the hoop and ball finals, and she and the rest of the German team won silver in the team segment. [28] Her all-around placement qualified Germany a second quota for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [29]

2024

Kolosov competed at the 2024 European Championships in Budapest. She came in 7th in the all-around final and qualified for the clubs final; however, in the clubs final, she dropped her apparatus twice and finished in 8th place. [30] At the 2024 German national championships, Kolosov became the all-around champion ahead of Varfolomeev, a result that was considered surprising as Varfolomeev was the 2023 World champion in every individual category. [7] The next day, during the apparatus finals, she won gold in the ball final and silver medals in hoop, cubs and ribbon. [31]

At the World Cup in Milan, Kolosov came in fifth overall after a loss of apparatus in her clubs routine. She competed in three of the four apparatus finals and came in fourth with clubs, fifth with ribbon, and eighth with ball. [32]

In August, she competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She qualified for the final, where she came in fourth place after improving on her qualification scores. She ended narrowly behind Sofia Raffaeli, who won the bronze. [33] Fellow German Darja Varfolomeev, the gold medalist, comforted her afterward. [34]

2025

The next year, she competed at International tournament Gdynia Rhythmic Stars in Poland, taking 9th place in all-around and silver medal in ribbon final. [35] In May, she and Varfolomeev were awarded the German Gymnastics Federation's Flatow Medal, which honors the memories of Alfred Flatow and Gustav Flatow, at the Turnfest Festival in Leipzig, Germany. [36]

Kolosov was selected to compete at the 2025 Summer World University Games along with her teammate Anastasia Simakova. This was the first time that Germany had sent a team of rhythmic gymnasts to the event. [37] She took 15th place in the all-around due to many mistakes in her routines and was therefore not satisfied with the result. [38] However, the next day, she won a historic gold medal in the ball final. [39]

In August, she took fourth place behind Viktoria Steinfeld at the 2025 German National Championships. [40] In the apparatus finals, she won silver with hoop and bronze with ribbon. [41] She was initially selected to represent Germany at the 2025 World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, but she was later replaced by Anastasia Simakova.

Achievements

Routine music information

YearApparatusMusic Title
2025HoopIf I Can Dream by Elvis Presley
BallYes Sir, I Can Boogie by The Fratellis
ClubsFor the Departed by Shayfer James
RibbonUnter den Wolken by Die Toten Hosen
2024Hoop Zitti e buoni by Måneskin
Ball Feeling Good by Muse
Clubs Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO
Ribbon Dream On by Aerosmith
2023HoopGuerrilleros by Maxime Rodriguez
Ball Feeling Good by Muse
Clubs Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO
Ribbon I Wanna Be Your Slave by Måneskin
2022Hoop (first)Battle of the Kings by Audiomachine
Hoop (second)Guerrilleros by Maxime Rodriguez
BallNinja by Maxime Rodriguez
Clubs Pump It by Black Eyed Peas
Ribbon I Wanna Be Your Slave by Måneskin
2021HoopShame On Me by Avicii
BallNinja by Maxime Rodriguez
ClubsSwing Break by The McMash Clan feat. Kate Mullins
RibbonRomani Holiday (Antonius Remix) by Hans Zimmer
2020HoopShame On Me by Avicii
BallNinja by Maxime Rodriguez
ClubsSwing Break by The McMash Clan feat. Kate Mullins
RibbonRomani Holiday (Antonius Remix) by Hans Zimmer

Competitive highlights

(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)

International: Senior
YearEventAATeam Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2025 World Cup Challenge Cluj-Napoca 11th16th (Q)11th (Q)9th (Q)12th (Q)
Summer Universiade 15th32th (Q)1st24th (Q)10th (Q)
IT Gdynia Rhythmic Stars9th5th6th2nd
Gymnastik International Fellbach-Schmiden3rd
2024 Olympic Games 4th
World Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca 16th3rd21th (Q)13th (Q)22th (Q)
World Cup Milan 5th12th (Q)8th4th5th
European Championships 7th4th10th (Q)9th (Q)8th
World Cup Tashkent 9th25th (Q)3rd10th (Q)7th
World Cup Baku 5th8th (Q)7th5th9th (Q)
World Cup Athens 14th28th (Q)9th (Q)14th (Q)9th (Q)
Gymnastik International Fellbach-Schmiden2nd1st
2023Aeon Cup4th1st
World Championships 12th2nd5th19th (Q)8th14th (Q)
World Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca 8th3rd29th (Q)11th (Q)8th
European Championships 9th5th11th (Q)15th (Q)14th (Q)16th (Q)
World Challenge Cup Portimão 5th8th9th (Q)10th (Q)7th
World Cup Tashkent 3rd2nd2nd8th3rd
World Cup Athens 6th9th (Q)10th (Q)1st8th
Gymnastik International Fellbach-Schmiden2nd3rd2nd4th2nd
2022 World Championships 15th2nd5th12th (Q)5th14th (Q)
World Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca 18th21st (Q)20th (Q)9th (Q)20th (Q)
European Championships 15th5th7th5th29th (Q)
World Cup Pesaro 7th11th (Q)4th11th (Q)13th (Q)
World Challenge Cup Pamplona 9th1st8th23rd (Q)14th (Q)
World Cup Tashkent 4th4th1st3rd5th
World Cup Sofia 11th15th (Q)9th (Q)16th (Q)7th
World Cup Athens 4th5th3rd8th2nd
2021 World Championships 16th19th (Q)12th (Q)15th (Q)18th (Q)
World Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca 10th14th (Q)9th (Q)14th (Q)8th
European Championships 24th13th23rd (Q)21st (Q)22nd (Q)34th (Q)
World Cup Pesaro 25th34th (Q)23rd (Q)20th (Q)27th (Q)
World Cup Baku 48th60th (Q)28th (Q)32nd (Q)36th (Q)
World Cup Sofia 25th28th (Q)27th (Q)26th (Q)26th (Q)
International: Junior
YearEventAATeam Rope Ball Clubs Ribbon
2019 Junior World Championships 15th31st (Q)18th (Q)17th (Q)
YearEventAATeam Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2018 Junior European Championships 14th42 (Q)30 (Q)40 (Q)24 (Q)
National: Senior
YearEventAATeam Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2025German Championships4th2nd4th4th3rd
2024German Championships1st2nd1st2nd2nd
2023German Championships2nd4th2nd2nd2nd
2022German Championships2nd2nd2nd2nd1st
2021German Championships1st1st1st1st1st
National: Junior
YearEventAATeam Rope Ball Clubs Ribbon
2019German Junior Championships1st1st1st1st1st
YearEventAATeam Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2018German Junior Championships1st1st1st1st1st
Q = Qualifications (Did not advance to Event Final due to the 2 gymnast per country rule, only Top 8 highest score);
WD = Withdrew

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