Marios Georgiou (; born 10 November 1997) is a Cypriot

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. 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

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parallel bars silver medalist. At the

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, 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

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. He is the

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all-around and horizontal bar champion and the

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horizontal bar champion. He competed at the

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, and

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Early life

Georgiou was born in

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and is the son of a Cypriot father and a

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mother. He has four half-siblings. He began gymnastics when he was three years old.

Junior gymnastics career

Georgiou competed at the 2013 Gymnasiade and won the gold medal on the pommel horse. 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. 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.

Senior gymnastics career

2015–2016

Georgiou began competing at the senior level in 2015. He competed at the 2015 European Championships in

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. He qualified for the all-around final where he finished 19th. He then competed at the

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and won the gold medals in every event except the floor exercise and the rings. 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. Then at the 2015 World Championships in

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, he finished 44th in the all-around and qualified for the 2016 Olympic Test Event. At the Test Event, he finished 38th in the all-around and qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games. Georgiou represented

Cyprus at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyprus competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's tenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. Cyprus Olympic Committee sent a team of 16 athletes, 10 men and 6 women, ...

and qualified for the all-around final, becoming the first gymnast from Cyprus to advance to an Olympic final. However, he had to withdraw in the middle of the final due to an ankle injury.

2017–18

Georgiou began the 2017 season at the

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where he finished thirteenth in the all-around final. He won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar at both the Koper and Szombathely World Challenge Cups. He then represented Cyprus at the 2017 Summer Universiade and finished 15th in the all-around final and sixth in the horizontal bar final. At the 2017 World Championships in

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, he finished 16th in the all-around final. Georgiou represented Cyprus at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, helping the

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finish fourth. In the all-around final, he won the bronze medal behind English gymnasts

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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

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and

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finals. He then competed at the

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

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and Robert Seligman. At the 2018 Osijek World Challenge Cup, Georgiou won his first World Challenge Cup gold medal by winning the parallel bars. He did not qualify for any finals at the

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. He then won the bronze medal on the horizontal bar at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup. 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.

2019

Georgiou competed at the 2019 European Championships and won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Russians Nikita Nagornyy and Artur Dalaloyan. This marked the first time a gymnast from Cyprus won a medal in the all-around at the

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. He also finished eighth in the pommel horse final. 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

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. He also finished fifth in the pommel horse final. At the 2019 World Championships in

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, he finished 47th in the all-around during the qualification round and qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games.

2021–2022

Georgiou won the gold medal on the horizontal bar at the 2021 Doha World Cup. 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

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. He then competed at the 2021 World Championships and was the first reserve for the parallel bars final. At the 2022 Varna World Challenge Cup, Georgiou won the gold medals on the pommel horse, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. He then represented Cyprus at the 2022 Mediterranean Games and helped the

finish in fifth place. Then in the all-around final, he won the bronze medal behind Adem Asil and Joel Plata. He then won the gold medal in the horizontal bar final. He was represented Cyprus at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and was selected to be the flagbearer during the Parade of Nations. The Cypriot

won the bronze medal behind England and Canada. Then in the all-around final, he repreated as the Commonwealth all-around bronze medalist behind English gymnasts

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and James Hall. He also won the bronze medal in the parallel bars final behind English gymnasts

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and

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and in the horizontal bar final behind teammate

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and Australian

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. He also finished seventh in the pommel horse final. Then at the

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, he won the gold medal in the horizontal bar final with a score of 14.400. He became the first gymnast from Cyprus to win a gold medal at the

. After the European Championships, Georgiou competed at the Paris World Challenge Cup and placed eighth in the horizontal bar final. At the

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, he competed on the parallel bars and the horizontal bar and finished 14th in the qualification round on both.

2023–2024

Georgiou did not compete at the 2023 European Championships due to an injury. He had surgery on his shoulder in November 2022 and returned to competition in September at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup and won a silver medal on the horizontal bar behind teammate

. He only competed on the horizontal bar at the 2023 World Championships, finishing 54th in the qualification round. Georgiou began the Olympic season at the Cairo World Cup and placed seventh on the horizontal bar. He then placed fifth on the same event at the Doha World Cup. At the

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, 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. Additionally, he helped Cyprus qualify for their first ever team final at the European Championships where they ultimately finished seventh. During event final Georgiou picked up an additional three medals: silver on parallel bars and bronze on pommel horse and horizontal bar.

Competitive history

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