Margarita Kolosov (born 11 March 2004) is a German rhythmic gymnast. She is a two-time (2021, 2024) German all-around champion. She is also a two-time (2022, 2023) World team silver medalist. Kolosov competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the individual all-around, where she came in fourth place.
Kolosov has been training at the federal base in Fellbach with Yuliya Raskina since 2016.
Personal life She has two sisters, Alissa and Victoria. In 2020, Kolosov, together with numerous athletes, appeared in the music video by Tim Bendzko for the song "HOCH" (OLYMPIA TEAM D VERSION). She studies psychology at AKAD University in Stuttgart.
Career Together with her sister, Kolosov started training rhythmic gymnastics at SC Potsdam in 2010 at the age of 6. Her main ambition was to compete at the Olympics, like her idol Margarita Mamun, at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Junior In August 2016, Kolosov moved from SC Potsdam to the federal training base in Fellbach. 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.
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.
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. 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. At the end of the year, she and the team of the Berlin TSC finished second in the rhythmic gymnastics bundesliga.
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. 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. In June she competed alongside Helena Ripken in Pesaro, where she was 7th in the all-around and 4th in the ball final.
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. At the World Cup in Cluj-Napoca, she was 18th in the all-around and didn't qualify for finals. 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.
2023 In 2023 she showed her clubs routine in the Italian clubs championship's first stage, where she competed for Pontevecchio Bologna. 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. 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.
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. Her all-around placement qualified Germany a second quota for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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. 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. The next day, during the apparatus finals, she won gold in the ball final and silver medals in hoop, cubs and ribbon.
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.
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. Fellow German Darja Varfolomeev, the gold medalist, comforted her afterward.
2025
The next year, she competed at the Gdynia Rhythmic Stars in Poland, taking 9th place in all-around and silver medal in ribbon final. 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.
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. She took 15th place in the all-around due to many mistakes in her routines and was therefore not satisfied with the result. However, the next day, she won a historic gold medal in the ball final.
In August, she took fourth place behind Viktoria Steinfeld at the 2025 German National Championships. In the apparatus finals, she won silver with hoop and bronze with ribbon. She was initially selected to represent Germany at the 2025 World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, but she was later replaced by Anastasia Simakova.
2026 Kolosov competed at the World Cup in Baku, where she placed 44th. She attributed her performance to not having competed internationally for some time. She intended to again compete at the Gydnia Rhythmic Stars in early May; however, she withdrew after injuring her ankle, which required she rest it for at least a week. In July, she took 4th place in the all-around at the German National championships. She also took 4th place in all the apparatus finals but ball, where she won the silver medal.
Achievements First German rhythmic gymnast to win a gold medal in an individual apparatus final at the FIG World Cup series. First German rhythmic gymnast to win a gold medal in an individual apparatus final at the FISU World University Games.
Routine music information +YearApparatusMusic Title2026HoopIf I Can Dream by Elvis PresleyBallBoogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind & FireClubsFor the Departed by Shayfer JamesRibbonSmells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana2025HoopIf I Can Dream by Elvis PresleyBallYes Sir, I Can Boogie by The FratellisClubsFor the Departed by Shayfer JamesRibbonUnter den Wolken by Die Toten Hosen2024HoopZitti e buoni by MåneskinBallFeeling Good by MuseClubsParty Rock Anthem by LMFAORibbonDream On by Aerosmith2023HoopGuerrilleros by Maxime RodriguezBallFeeling Good by MuseClubsParty Rock Anthem by LMFAORibbonI Wanna Be Your Slave by Måneskin2022Hoop (first)Battle of the Kings by AudiomachineHoop (second)Guerrilleros by Maxime RodriguezBallNinja by Maxime RodriguezClubsPump It by Black Eyed PeasRibbonI Wanna Be Your Slave by Måneskin2021HoopShame On Me by AviciiBallNinja by Maxime RodriguezClubsSwing Break by The McMash Clan feat. Kate MullinsRibbonRomani Holiday (Antonius Remix) by Hans Zimmer2020HoopShame On Me by AviciiBall Ninja by Maxime RodriguezClubsSwing Break by The McMash Clan feat. Kate MullinsRibbonRomani 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 Year EventAATeamHoopBallClubsRibbon2026 World Cup Baku44th53th (Q)33rd (Q)49th (Q)37th (Q)2025 World Cup Challenge Cluj-Napoca11th16th (Q)11th (Q)9th (Q)12th (Q)Summer Universiade15th32th (Q)1st24th (Q)10th (Q) IT Gdynia Rhythmic Stars9th5th6th2nd Gymnastik International Fellbach-Schmiden3rd 2024Olympic Games4thWorld Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca 16th 3rd 21st (Q) 13th (Q) 22nd (Q)World Cup Milan 5th 12th (Q) 8th 4th 5thEuropean Championships 7th 4th 10th (Q) 9th (Q) 8th World Cup Tashkent 9th 25th (Q)3rd 10th (Q) 7thWorld Cup Baku 5th 8th (Q) 7th 5th 9th (Q)World Cup Athens 14th 28th (Q) 9th (Q) 14th (Q) 9th (Q) Gymnastik International Fellbach-Schmiden 2nd1st2023Aeon Cup 4th1st World Championships 12th2nd 5th 19th (Q) 8th 14th (Q)World Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca8th3rd29th (Q)11th (Q)8thEuropean Championships 9th 5th 11th (Q) 15th (Q) 14th (Q) 16th (Q)World Challenge Cup Portimão 5th 8th 9th (Q) 10th (Q) 7thWorld Cup Tashkent3rd2nd2nd 8th3rdWorld Cup Athens 6th 9th (Q) 10th (Q)1st 8th Gymnastik International Fellbach-Schmiden2nd3rd2nd 4th2nd2022World Championships15th2nd5th12th (Q)5th14th (Q)World Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca18th21st (Q)20th (Q)9th (Q)20th (Q)European Championships15th5th7th5th29th (Q)World Cup Pesaro7th11th (Q)4th11th (Q)13th (Q)World Challenge Cup Pamplona9th1st8th23rd (Q)14th (Q)World Cup Tashkent4th4th1st3rd5thWorld Cup Sofia11th15th (Q)9th (Q)16th (Q)7thWorld Cup Athens4th5th3rd8th2nd2021World Championships16th19th (Q) 12th (Q) 15th (Q) 18th (Q)World Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca10th14th (Q)9th (Q)14th (Q)8thEuropean Championships24th13th23rd (Q)21st (Q)22nd (Q)34th (Q)World Cup Pesaro25th34th (Q)23rd (Q)20th (Q)27th (Q)World Cup Baku48th60th (Q)28th (Q)32nd (Q)36th (Q)World Cup Sofia25th28th (Q)27th (Q)26th (Q)26th (Q) International: Junior Year EventAATeamRopeBallClubsRibbon2019Junior World Championships 15th31st (Q)18th (Q) 17th (Q)YearEventAATeamHoopBallClubsRibbon2018Junior European Championships14th42 (Q)30 (Q)40 (Q)24 (Q) National: Senior Year EventAATeamHoopBallClubsRibbon2026German Championships4th4th2nd4th4th2025German Championships4th2nd4th4th3rd2024German Championships1st 2nd1st2nd2nd2023German Championships2nd 4th2nd2nd2nd2022German Championships2nd2nd2nd2nd1st2021German Championships1st 1st1st1st1st National: JuniorYearEventAATeamRopeBallClubsRibbon2019German Junior Championships1st1st1st1st1stYearEventAATeamHoopBallClubsRibbon2018German 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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