Mara Titarsolej
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Arnhem, Netherlands
| Mara Titarsolej | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Mara Zoe Titarsolej | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 August 1999 Arnhem, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 2 in (157 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| College team | LIU Sharks (2021–2023) Missouri Tigers (2024–2025) | ||||||||||||||
| Club | GTV de Hazenkamp | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mara Zoe Titarsolej (born 28 August 1999) is a Dutch artistic gymnast. She competed at the 2015 World Championships, where she helped the Dutch team qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics, marking the first time they qualified a team to the Olympics since 1976. She finished fifth on the floor exercise at the 2016 European Championships. After concluding her elite gymnastics career, she moved to the United States to compete in NCAA gymnastics. She is the 2024 and 2025 SEC conference champion on the uneven bars.
Titarsolej was the 2012 Dutch national junior all-around champion.[2] She competed at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Festival and finished ninth in the team competition alongside Eythora Thorsdottir and Dana de Groot. Individually, she finished eighth in the floor exercise final.[3]
Titarsolej won the silver medal in the all-around at the 2015 Dutch Worlds Team Trials.[4] As a result, she was selected to compete at the 2015 World Championships alongside Thorsdottir, Lisa Top, Tisha Volleman, Lieke Wevers, and Sanne Wevers. During the qualification round, the team beat out Brazil by less than half of a point for the eighth and final Olympic qualification spot. This marked the first time the Netherlands qualified as a team for the Olympic Games since 1976.[5][6] The team once again finished eighth in the team final with Titarsolej contributing on the vault.[7]
Titarsolej won an all-around silver medal at the 2016 IAG SportEvent behind Thorsdottir.[8] She then competed at the 2016 European Championships and qualified for the floor exercise final, finishing fifth.[9] Additionally, she was the third reserve for both the uneven bars and balance beam finals.[10][11] She finished ninth in the all-around at the 2016 Dutch Championships.[12] She was not selected for the Olympic team.[13]
Titarsolej was not able to compete consistently following the 2016 season due to an ankle injury. She returned to international competitions after three years at the 2019 Züri-Oberland Cup,[14] where she won the all-around.[15] She then finished sixth in the all-around at the 2019 Dutch Championships.[16] She was training for the 2020 Summer Olympics until her gym closed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, so she decided to end her elite career.[17][2]
