50 Facts About Margarita Mamun

Margarita Mamun is a retired Russian individual rhythmic gymnast.

Margarita Mamun is the 2016 Olympic All-around champion, two-time World All-around silver medalist, the 2015 European Games All-around silver medalist, the 2016 European Championships All-around silver medalist, three-time Grand Prix Final All-around champion and a three-time Russian National All-around champion.

Margarita Mamun is the current record holder under the 20-point judging system with the highest All-around total of 77.150 points; which she scored at the 2016 Baku World Cup.

At the 2016 Olympic Games, Mamun won the All-around gold with a total score of 76.483 points.

Margarita Mamun was born in Moscow, Russia to a Bengali father Abdullah Al Margarita Mamun, who was born in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, and had a master's degree in marine engineering, and a Russian mother Anna, a former rhythmic gymnast.

Margarita Mamun holds both Russian and Bangladeshi citizenship, and has one younger brother named Filipp Al Margarita Mamun.

Shortly after the 2016 Olympic Games, Margarita Mamun became engaged to Olympic swimmer Alexandr Sukhorukov.

On 17 July 2019, Margarita Mamun announced that she was pregnant through a post on her Instagram.

Margarita Mamun speaks English fluently, in addition to her native Russian.

Margarita Mamun was later gifted a piano by her husband for her birthday.

Margarita Mamun competed at the 2005 Miss Valentine Cup in Tartu, Estonia.

Margarita Mamun was coached by former rhythmic world champion Amina Zaripova.

Margarita Mamun briefly competed for Bangladesh at age 12 but returned to representing Russia as a senior.

Margarita Mamun competed at the 2011 International Tournament of Calais, where she won gold in the All-around and in hoop, clubs and ribbon final.

Margarita Mamun made her senior international breakthrough at the 2011 World Cup in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where she won the bronze medal in all-around and gold in ball finals ahead of Liubov Charkashyna.

Margarita Mamun finished 4th in all-around at the Tashkent leg.

In 2013, Margarita Mamun started her season competing at the Moscow Grand Prix winning the gold medal in all-around ahead of silver medalist Sylvia Miteva and teammate Daria Svatkovskaya.

Margarita Mamun won gold in hoop, ball, clubs and bronze in ribbon final.

At the Thiais Grand Prix, Margarita Mamun won all the gold medals: All-around, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon.

Margarita Mamun competed at the 2013 World Cup event in Sofia, where she won the bronze in all-around behind Bulgarian Sylvia Miteva.

Margarita Mamun won gold in ball and silver in ribbon final.

Margarita Mamun competed at her first Senior Europeans at the 2013 European Championships in Vienna, Austria and together with her teammates won Russia the team gold medal.

Margarita Mamun then competed at the 2013 Summer Universiade, where she won gold in All-around ahead of teammate Alexandra Merkulova.

At the 2013 World Cup series in StPetersburg, Russia, Margarita Mamun won the all-around gold medal and in the event finals, she won gold medal in and silver in ball.

Margarita Mamun then competed at the 2013 World Championships in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she won gold medal in ball with a score of 18.516 points and shared the gold medal in clubs with teammate Yana Kudryavtseva; she took bronze medal in hoop and placed 5th in ribbon final.

Margarita Mamun then competed at the 2013 Grand Prix Brno and won the all-around gold ahead of Svatkovskaya, she won another gold in ribbon, ball, silver in hoop and bronze in clubs.

Margarita Mamun won the all-around at the 2013 Grand Prix Final in Berlin and gold medal in hoop and ball, silver in clubs behind Daria Svatkovskaya and 5th in ribbon.

In 2014, Margarita Mamun began her competitive season at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix where she won the all-around gold medal ahead of teammate Maria Titova.

Margarita Mamun then won three gold medals in the hoop, ball and clubs event finals and silver in ribbon.

Margarita Mamun then competed at the 2014 World Cup series event in Stuttgart, where she won all-around silver.

Margarita Mamun won the all-around gold at the 2014 Holon Grand Prix ahead of Kudryavtseva; in the event finals: she won gold medals in ball and hoop, silver in ribbon.

Margarita Mamun then competed at the 2014 Desio Italia Cup and won the all-around gold medal.

Margarita Mamun returned to competition in August and took the silver medal in all-around at the 2014 Sofia World Cup, she qualified to 2 event finals and won silver in ball and clubs.

Margarita Mamun won the All-around gold in the finals beating teammate Kudryavtseva.

In 2015, Margarita Mamun started her season at the 2015 Moscow Grand Prix where she won gold in the all-around, ribbon and hoop finals.

Margarita Mamun won the all-around gold at the 2015 Berlin Grand Prix with a total of 75.350 points, she won 3 golds in apparatus finals and bronze in ribbon.

Margarita Mamun won gold in hoop finals, the only event she scored higher than Yana Kudryavtseva in qualifications.

At the 2015 Sofia World Cup, Margarita Mamun won the all-around silver medal, she qualified to 3 apparatus finals, taking silver in hoop, ribbon and finished 8th in ball after a drop from a risk and with her retrieving the apparatus, rolling out of the carpet.

At the 2015 World Cup stage in Kazan, Margarita Mamun won the all-around gold medal with a total of 75.550 points beating teammate Yana Kudryavtseva, Margarita Mamun's momentum was built further after a drop from Kudryavtseva's clubs and not completing a risk element scored only 17.800.

Margarita Mamun was awarded with the Longines Prize for Elegance at the Championships.

Margarita Mamun then competed at the 2015 Grand Prix Final in Brno, where she won the all-around gold medal with a total of 76.050, a personal best score.

In 2016, Margarita Mamun started her season at the 2016 Moscow Grand Prix finishing 4th in the all-around, she qualified to 2 apparatus finals taking gold in clubs and ball.

At the 30th Thiais Grand Prix event in Paris, Margarita Mamun won the all-around gold ahead of teammate Aleksandra Soldatova, she qualified 3 event finals, taking gold in hoop, clubs and silver in ball.

Margarita Mamun won the all-around silver behind Aleksandra Soldatova at the 2016 Russian Championships held in Sochi.

Margarita Mamun won another gold medal in the all-around at the 2016 Minsk World Cup with a total of 75.700 points, she won all 4 of the apparatus finals.

Margarita Mamun kept her composure and rallied in her clubs and with her ribbon routine sealed her the Olympic gold medal scoring a total of 76.483 points edging out World Champion Yana Kudryavtseva who won the silver medal.

Margarita Mamun was the only gymnast in the final to have scores over 19 points on all four apparatus.

On 4 November 2017, Irina Viner officially announced to the Russian press that Margarita Mamun has completed her competitive career in rhythmic gymnastics.

Margarita Mamun was the protagonist of Polish director, Marta Prus' 2017 documentary film Over the Limit, which detailed her preparation for the 2016 Olympics in Rio, as well as Margarita Mamun's relationship with her father, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Margarita Mamun revealed that she cannot be alone with male doctors due to psychological trauma.