| Marie Skammelsen | |
| Birth Date: | 22 February 2001 |
| Birth Place: | Rudersdal Municipality, Denmark[1] |
| Residence: | Hoersholm, Denmark |
| Training: | Kastrup, Denmark |
| Discipline: | WAG |
| Level: | Senior International Elite |
| Natlteam: | 2010–2017 |
| Club: | Kastrup Gymnastikforening af 1966 (KG66) |
| Headcoach: | Bernadett "Ditti" Balazs |
| Assistcoach: | Milan Udvaracz |
| Retired: | October 2017 |
Marie Skammelsen (born 22 February 2001) is a retired Danish artistic gymnast.[2] [3] [4] A Danish national team member since 2010, joining at an unprecedented age of nine, she has amassed several medals at the Northern European Gymnastics Championships as a junior,[5] including her all-around title at the 2016 event.[6] [7] In June 2016, she made a fourth place finish in the vault final at the 2016 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Bern, Switzerland.[8]
In September, Skammelsen competed at the 2014 Northern European Gymnastics Championships, which were held in Greve, Denmark.[9] With her team, she took a silver medal, and an eleventh place finish in the all-around standings.[10] She advanced to the vault event final and finished in second place position.[11]
Skammelsen participated in the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in the summer of 2015, where she travelled to Tbilisi, Georgia.[12] In the qualification round, she finished thirty-sixth which didn't advance her through to the all-around final; she did make the vault final though. In the vault final, she finished fifth.[13]
Later in the year, in mid-September, Skammelsen participated in the 2015 Northern European Gymnastics Championships in Limerick, Ireland.[14] She took an eighth place finish in the all-around standings, in addition to three event finals.[15] In the event finals, Skammelsen took home two bronze medals; one on vault and one on balance beam, as well as a fourth place finish on floor.
Skammelsen became the Danish Junior Champion in the all-around in April.[16] She claimed additional titles on the vault and floor too.
In May, she travelled to Reykjavik, Iceland for the 2016 Nordic Championships.[17] At the championships, she was crowned the junior Nordic all-around champion.[18] She also captured Junior Nordic titles on vault and floor, in addition to medals on the remaining two events.
A month later, in June, she journeyed to Bern for the 2016 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The qualification round saw Skammelsen advance to the all-around final in one of the final qualification spots.[19] She also qualified to the vault event final, taking the seventh place in the quota.[20] In the all-around final, Skammelsen finished twentieth in the field of twenty-four.[21] Soon after, she participated in the vault final where she over-performed to a finish of fourth place.[22]
As of October 2017, she now longer practises gymnastics.[23]