National Team: | Russia |
Birth Date: | 31 January 1994 |
Birth Place: | Kotovsk, Russia |
Death Place: | Morshansky District, Tamblov Oblast, Western Russia |
Sport: | athletics |
Event: | 100m, 60m hurdles |
Coach: | Elena Melnikova |
Pb: | 14.06 seconds – 100m hurdles |
Margarita Plavunova (31 January 1994 – 22 August 2019) was a Russian athlete and artists' model.
She was born in Kotovsk in 1994 and was a graduate of the sports department at Tomsk State University.[1] She competed in the national championships and became Russian student champion in the 60m hurdles and also competing in the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles.[2]
Plavunova died suddenly on 22 August 2019 beside a highway in the Morshansky District of the Tambov Oblast region of western Russia at the age of 25 while jogging. Preliminary post-mortem examination suggested acute heart failure.[3]