Barbora Mokošová (born 10 March 1997) is a Slovak

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

. She is the 2020 European bronze medalist on the

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and the first gymnast representing Slovakia to receive a medal at the

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. She represented Slovakia at the 2016 and

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Olympic Games. She is also a two-time World Challenge Cup champion on the uneven bars.

Early life

Mokošová was born on 10 March 1997 in

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. She began gymnastics when she was four years old because her mother is a gymnastics coach.

Career

Mokošová competed at the 2012 Austrian Team Open and placed tenth with the Slovakian team and twenty-fifth in the individual all-around. Her first major international competition was the 2012 Junior European Championships where she finished thirty-seventh in the all-around during the qualification round.

2013

Mokošová became age-eligible for senior competition in 2013. She made her senior debut at the Cottbus World Cup but did not qualify for any of the event finals. Then at the

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, she finished thirty-eighth in the all-around during the qualification round. She then competed at the Ljubljana World Cup and once again did not qualify for the event finals. Then at the Gym Festival Trnava, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind

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and

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. In the event finals, she won the gold medal on the uneven bars and the bronze medal on the

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. She also placed fourth on

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and

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. At the Hungarian Grand Prix, she finished fifth in the floor exercise event final. She competed at the Osijek Challenge Cup but did not make any of the event finals. Her final competition of the season was the

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where she finished thirty-ninth in the all-around during the qualification round with a total score of 50.999.

2014

Mokošová won the silver medal in the all-around at the Salamunov Memorial in Ruše, Slovenia behind Lithuanian gymnast Laura Švilpaitė. Her next competition was the Osijek World Cup but did not qualify for any finals. At the

, she finished nineteenth in the all-around during the qualification round. Then at the Gym Festival Trnava, she won the bronze medal in the all-around behind

and

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. At the Hungarian Grand Prix, she finished fourth in the all-around. Then in the event finals, she won the silver medal on the uneven bars behind

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and bronze medals on the balance beam and floor exercise. She competed at the

and placed eighty-first in the all-around during the qualification round.

2015

Mokošová competed at the Ljubjana and Varna World Cups but did not qualify for any finals. Then at the

, she finished seventeenth in the all-around with a total score of 51.866. At the Gym Festival Trnava, she won the gold medal on the floor exercise and the silver medal on the uneven bars, and she placed sixth on the balance beam. She represented Slovakia at the 2015 European Games and finished eighteenth in the all-around final. She finished fifth on the uneven bars at the Osijek World Cup. Then at the Hungarian Grand Prix, she finished fourth in the all-around and floor exercise and sixth on the balance beam. She competed at the

and finished ninetieth in the all-around during the qualification round.

2016

Mokošová finished fourth with the Slovakian team and won the bronze medal in the all-around behind Zsófia Kovács and

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at the Austrian Team Open. Then at the Olympic Test Event she placed forty-third in the all-around and earned an individual spot at the 2016 Olympic Games. She then won the gold medal on the balance beam and a bronze on the uneven bars at the Gym Festival Trnava, and she also finished fourth in the all-around. At the

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, she finished thirteenth in the all-around during the qualification round. She was invited to compete as a guest at the Dutch Olympic Qualifier and finished twelfth in the all-around. She then represented Slovakia at the 2016 Summer Olympics and finished forty-fifth in the all-around during the qualification round with a total score of 52.799.

2017

Mokošová won the gold medal with the team and the silver medal in the all-around at the Austrian Team Challenge. Then at the Elek Matolay Memorial, she won the silver medal in the all-around behind Zsófia Kovács. In the event finals, she won the gold medal on the floor exercise and the silver medal on the uneven bars and balance beam behind Kovács. At the

, she finished seventeenth in the all-around final. She her first World Cup medal with a bronze medal on the floor exercise at the Koper World Challenge Cup behind Carina Kröll and

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. Then at the Osijek Challenge Cup, she finished seventh on the uneven bars and fifth on the balance beam. She won a silver medal in the all-around at the Gym Festival Trnava behind

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. In the event finals, she won the bronze medal behind Hatakeda and

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, and she placed fourth on the balance beam and floor exercise. She then represented Slovakia at the 2017 Summer Universiade and finished ninth in the all-around final. At the Szombathely Challenge Cup, she finished fifth on both the uneven bars and floor exercise. Then at the Paris Challenge Cup, she finished sixth on the uneven bars. At the

, she finished thirty-first in the all-around during the qualification round.

2018

Mokošová began the season at the Austrian Team Open with a gold medal in the all-around and a silver medal with the team. Then at the Elek Matolay Memorial, she won a silver medal in the all-around behind Zsófia Kovács and gold medals on the uneven bars and balance beam. At the Osijek World Challenge Cup, she won silver medals on the uneven bars and the balance beam, both behind Ukrainian

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. Then at the Koper World Challenge Cup, she won her first World Cup gold medal on the uneven bars and also won the bronze medal on the floor exercise. She won the gold medal in the all-around at the Gym Festival Trnava with a total score of 53.900. In the event finals, she won the gold medals on the uneven bars and floor exercise and the silver medal on the balance beam behind Katarzyna Jurkowska-Kowalska. She won another all-around gold medal at the Budapest Friendly and also won a bronze medal with the team. She then competed at the

and helped the Slovakian team place nineteenth during the qualification round. She won two more World Cup medals at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup, a silver on the uneven bars and a bronze on the floor exercise. At the end of 2018, she tore several ligaments in her ankle at a training camp in Hungary and had surgery.

2019

Mokošová returned to competition at the Osijek Challenge Cup and placed sixth on the uneven bars. Then at the Gym Festival Trnava, she won the silver medal in the all-around behind

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. In the event finals, she won the silver medal on the uneven bars behind Schermann and on the balance beam behind

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. She then represented Slovakia at the 2019 Summer Universiade and placed eighth in both the uneven bars and balance beam event finals. Then at the Szombathely Challenge Cup, she placed fourth on the uneven bars and seventh on the balance beam. She then competed at the

and finished sixty-third in the all-around during the qualification round. This result qualified her for the 2020 Olympic Games.

2020

The competitions Mokošová was scheduled to compete in during the 2020 season were either canceled or postponed due to the

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. At the postponed

in December, she won the bronze medal on the uneven bars with a score of 13.300 behind Hungarian gymnasts Zsófia Kovács and

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. This made her the first gymnast representing Slovakia to win a medal at the

2021

Mokošová began the 2021 season at the

where she finished eighteenth in the all-around final. Then at the Varna Challenge Cup, she finished fourth on the uneven bars. At the FIT Challenge, she finished eleventh with the team, seventh on the uneven bars, and twenty-seventh in the all-around. She then represented

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where she finished fifty-second in the all-around during the qualification round. She won her second World Cup gold medal on the uneven bars at the Koper World Challenge Cup with a score of 13.650. Then at the Gym Festival Trnava, she won gold medals on the uneven bars and balance beam. She competed on the uneven bars and balance beam at the

but did not advance into the finals.

Awards

In 2021, Mokošová was named to

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Slovakia's 30 Under 30 list.

Personal life

Mokošová speaks Slovak, English, and German. She is a European Young Ambassador (EYA) for the

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at the ''Slovenský Olympijský Výbor'' (Rio 2016) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mokosova, Barbora 1997 births Living people Slovak female artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Bratislava Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Slovakia Gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Slovakia Competitors at the 2019 Summer Universiade Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics Competitors at the 2017 Summer Universiade