Marie Skammelsen

Marie Skammelsen
— Gymnast ♀ —
Country represented	Denmark
Born	2001 Rudersdal Municipality, Denmark[1]
Residence	Hoersholm, Denmark
Training location	Kastrup, Denmark
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior International Elite
Years on national team	2010–present
Club	Kastrup Gymnastikforening af 1966 (KG66)
Head coach(es)	Bernadett "Ditti" Balazs
Assistant coach(es)	Milan Udvaracz

Marie Skammelsen (born 2001) is a Danish artistic gymnast. 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 –^[2] this includes her all-around title at the 2016 event.^[3] Another notable feat she achieved at the junior level was a fourth place finish in the vault final at the 2016 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in June 2016, held in Bern, Switzerland.^[4]

Career

2014–16: Junior career

2014

In September, Skammelsen competed at the 2014 Northern European Gymnastics Championships, which were held in Greve, Denmark.^[5] With her team, she took a silver medal, and an eleventh place finish in the all-around standings.^[6] She advanced to the vault event final and finished in second place position.^[7]

2015

Skammelsen participated in the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in the summer of 2015, where she travelled to Tbilisi, Georgia.^[8] 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.^[9]

Later in the year, in mid-September, Skammelsen participated in the 2015 Northern European Gymnastics Championships in Limerick, Ireland.^[10] She took an eighth place finish in the all-around standings, in addition to three event finals.^[11] 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.

2016

Skammelsen became the Danish Junior Champion in the all-around in April.^[12] She claimed additional titles on the vault and floor too.

In May, she travelled to Reykjavik, Iceland for the 2016 Nordic Championships.^[13] At the championships, she was crowned the junior Nordic all-around champion.^[14] 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.^[15] She also qualified to the vault event final, taking the seventh place in the quota.^[16] In the all-around final, Skammelsen finished twentieth in the field of twenty-four.^[17] Soon after, she participated in the vault final where she over-performed to a finish of fourth place.^[18]

2017–present: Senior career

Skammelsen becomes a senior gymnast in 2017, and has openly set her immediate sights on participating at the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Canada.^[19] Her more long-term goal is to make the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan – a participation from Skammelsen in these games would be the first of any Danish gymnast since 1976.^[20]

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