Daniel Marinov
Daniel Nenkov Marinov is a Russian artistic gymnast. At the 2025 World Championships in Jakarta, he won a bronze medal in the parallel bars final as an Authorised Neutral Athlete. He is the 2025 Russian national champion in the all-around.
Early life
Marinov was born on 17 December 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria, to a Bulgarian father and a Russian mother. He moved to Kazan, Russia, with his mother as a child and is a dual citizen of both countries. He started gymnastics at six years old.Gymnastics career
Marinov competed at his first senior-level Russian Championships in 2022 and won the horizontal bar title.At the 2024 BRICS Games, Marinov competed against international gymnasts for the first time and won the all-around competition, ahead of Olympic champion Artur Dalaloyan. He then won another gold medal in the parallel bars final. He also won silver medals on the vault and horizontal bar and won a bronze medal on the rings.
Marinov was approved by the International Gymnastics Federation to compete internationally as an Authorised Neutral Athlete in 2025. He won the all-around title at the 2025 Russian Championships. In the apparatus finals, he also won the floor exercise and parallel bars titles and won a bronze medal on the vault. At the 2025 World Championships, he advanced into the all-around final and finished seventh. He then won the bronze medal in the parallel bars final, behind China's Zou Jingyuan and Japan's Tomoharu Tsunogai. Additionally, he placed seventh in the vault final and eighth in the horizontal bar final.