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| Margarita Mkrtchyan | |
| Fullname: | Margarita Mkrtchyan |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Birth Date: | 6 April 1981 |
| Birth Place: | Voronezh, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Death Place: | Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia |
| Weight: | 570NaN0 |
| Sport: | Taekwondo |
| Event: | 57 kg |
| Club: | CSKA Moscow |
| Coach: | Boris Zenkin |
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Margarita Mkrtchyan (Russian: Маргарита Гегамовна Мкртчян; 6 April 1981 – 11 July 2013) was 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]
Mkrtchyan died in an automobile accident on 11 July 2013.[9]