Maryia Poplyko

Since 1994 Maryia has been an athlete of the national team of Belarus. In 2000 she was granted the title of Master of Sports and, since 2002, Master of Sports of International Class. She graduated from the Republican School of Olympic Reserve in 2002.^[2]

In July 2002 she helped the group win silver in the All-Around and bronze with 3 ropes and 2 balls at the World Championships in New Orleans.^[3]

She then competed in the 2003 European Championships in Riesa, where she won bronze in the 5 ribbons final.^[4] In September of the same year the group won bronze in the All-Around at the World Championships in Budapest and thus qualifying for the following year's Olympics.^[5]

In 2004 the group won 3 silver and 2 bronze medals in the 2003-2004 World Cup circuit. At the Olympic Games in Athens Poplyko, Zlatislava Nersesyan, Yenia Burlo, Glafira Martinovich, Galina Nikandrova and Nataliya Aleksandrova took 6th place in the preliminaries and were 4th in the final, being just 0.600 points away from the bronze medal.^[6][7]