Cypriot artistic gymnast
Marios Georgiou
Born (1997-11-10 ) 10 November 1997 (age 26)
Limassol , CyprusHeight 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
[1] Discipline
Men's artistic gymnastics Level Senior international elite Years on national team 2014-present Club Athanasia Gymnastics Club Head coach(es) Panagiotis Petridis
Marios Georgiou (
Greek : Μάριος Γεωργίου ; born 10 November 1997)
[2] is a Cypriot
artistic gymnast . He is the
2024 European all-around champion, and the
2022 European horizontal bar champion and the first gymnast from Cyprus to win a European title, and a major all-around title. He is the
2019 European Championships all-around bronze medalist which made him the first gymnast from Cyprus to win a European medal. He is the
2019 European Games parallel bars silver medalist. At the
2018 Commonwealth Games , he won the gold medals in the floor exercise and parallel bars and the bronze medal in the all-around, and he won four bronze medals at the
2022 Commonwealth Games . He is the
2018 Mediterranean Games all-around and horizontal bar champion and the
2022 Mediterranean Games horizontal bar champion. He competed at the
2016 and
2020 Olympic Games .
Early life
Georgiou was born in
Limassol and is the son of a Cypriot father and a Filipina mother. He has four half-siblings. He began gymnastics when he was three years old.
[3]
Junior gymnastics career
Georgiou competed at the
2013 Gymnasiade and won the gold medal on the pommel horse.
[4] He then competed at the
2014 Junior European Championships and finished tenth in the all-around final. He also qualified for the rings final where he finished fifth.
[5] He represented
Cyprus at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics . However, during the qualification round, he injured his finger and withdrew from the rest of the competition.
[6]
Senior gymnastics career
2015–2016
Georgiou began competing at the senior level in 2015. He competed at the
2015 European Championships in
Montpellier, France . He qualified for the all-around final where he finished 19th.
[7] He then competed at the
2015 Games of the Small States of Europe and won the gold medals in every event except the floor exercise and the rings.
[8] He represented
Cyprus at the 2015 European Games and was the first reserve for the all-around final and the third reserve for the horizontal bar final.
[9] Then at the
2015 World Championships in
Glasgow , he finished 44th in the all-around and qualified for the
2016 Olympic Test Event .
[10]
[11] At the Test Event, he finished 38th in the all-around and
qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games .
[12]
[13]
Georgiou represented
Cyprus at the 2016 Summer Olympics and qualified for the
all-around final , becoming the first gymnast from Cyprus to advance to an Olympic final.
[14] However, he had to withdraw in the middle of the final due to an ankle injury.
[15]
2017–18
Georgiou began the 2017 season at the
European Championships in
Cluj-Napoca where he finished thirteenth in the all-around final.
[16] He won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar at both the Koper and Szombathely
World Challenge Cups .
[17]
[18] He then represented
Cyprus at the 2017 Summer Universiade and finished 15th in the
all-around final and sixth in the
horizontal bar final .
[19] At the
2017 World Championships in
Montreal , he finished 16th in the all-around final.
[20]
Georgiou represented
Cyprus at the 2018 Commonwealth Games , helping the
team finish fourth. In the
all-around final , he won the bronze medal behind English gymnasts
Nile Wilson and
James Hall . He then finished sixth in the
vault final and fifth in the
rings final . He won the gold medals in both the
floor exercise and
parallel bars finals.
[21]
[22] He then competed at the
2018 Mediterranean Games and helped the Cypriot team finish fifth. Individually, he won the gold medal in the all-around and horizontal bar, the silver medal on parallel bars behind
Ahmet Önder , and the bronze medal on the pommel horse behind
Cyril Tommasone and
Robert Seligman .
[23]
[24] At the
2018 Osijek World Challenge Cup , Georgiou won his first World Challenge Cup gold medal by winning the parallel bars.
[18] He did not qualify for any finals at the
2018 European Championships . He then won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup.
[25] He finished tenth in the all-around final at the
2018 World Championships , the highest World all-around finish ever for a gymnast from Cyprus.
[26]
2019
Georgiou competed at the
2019 European Championships and won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Russians
Nikita Nagornyy and
Artur Dalaloyan .
[27] This marked the first time a gymnast from Cyprus won a medal in the all-around at the
European Artistic Gymnastics Championships .
[6] He also finished eighth in the pommel horse final.
[28] He then represented
Cyprus at the 2019 European Games and finished 18th in the
all-around final . In the parallel bars final, he won the silver medal behind Ukrainian gymnast
Oleg Verniaiev . He also finished fifth in the
pommel horse final .
[29] At the
2019 World Championships in
Stuttgart , he finished 47th in the all-around during the qualification round and
qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games .
[30]
[31]
2021–2022
Georgiou at the
2022 European Championships
Georgiou won the gold medal on the horizontal bar at the
2021 Doha World Cup .
[32] He then represented
Cyprus at the postponed-2020 Summer Olympics . He did not qualify for any finals, but he was the first reserve for the horizontal bar final after finishing ninth in the
qualification round .
[33] He then competed at the
2021 World Championships and was the first reserve for the parallel bars final.
[34]
At the
2022 Varna World Challenge Cup , Georgiou won the gold medals on the pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar.
[35] He then represented
Cyprus at the 2022 Mediterranean Games and helped the
team finish in fifth place.
[36] Then in the
all-around final , he won the bronze medal behind
Adem Asil and
Joel Plata .
[37] He then won the gold medal in the horizontal bar final.
[38] He was represented
Cyprus at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and was selected to be the flagbearer during the
Parade of Nations .
[39] The Cypriot
team won the bronze medal behind England and Canada.
[40] Then in the
all-around final , he repreated as the Commonwealth all-around bronze medalist behind English gymnasts
Jake Jarman and
James Hall .
[41] He also won the bronze medal in the
parallel bars final behind English gymnasts
Joe Fraser and
Giarnni Regini-Moran and in the
horizontal bar final behind teammate
Ilias Georgiou and Australian
Tyson Bull .
[42]
[43] He also finished seventh in the
pommel horse final .
[44] Then at the
2022 European Championships , he won the gold medal in the horizontal bar final with a score of 14.400.
[45] He became the first gymnast from Cyprus to win a gold medal at the
European Championships .
[46]
[6]
After the European Championships, Georgiou competed at the
Paris World Challenge Cup and placed eighth in the horizontal bar final.
[47] At the
World Championships , he competed on the parallel bars and the horizontal bar and finished 14th in the qualification round on both.
[48]
2023–2024
Georgiou did not compete at the
2023 European Championships due to an injury.
[49] He had surgery on his shoulder in June and returned to competition in September at the
Szombathely World Challenge Cup and won a silver medal on the horizontal bar behind teammate
Ilias Georgiou .
[50] He only competed on the horizontal bar at the
2023 World Championships , finishing 54th in the qualification round.
[51]
Georgiou began the Olympic season at the
Cairo World Cup and placed seventh on the horizontal bar.
[52] He then placed fifth on the same event at the Doha World Cup.
[53] At the
2024 European Championships , Georgiou made history by becoming the first Cypriot to win the European all-around title. By winning the all-around, he qualified for his
third Olympic Games .
[54]
[55] Additionally, he helped Cyprus qualify for their first ever team final at the European Championships where they ultimately finished seventh.
[54]
[56] During event final Georgiou picked up an additional three medals: silver on parallel bars and bronze on pommel horse and horizontal bar.
[57]
[58]
Competitive history
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