ABOUT ME

My name is Margaret Elizabeth Kuts, and I was born in Vancouver, BC on October 7th, 2006.

I am a rhythmic gymnast and I have been doing gymnastics for around 12 years now. During my debut year as a junior, I won first place in the junior open category and qualified for the HP category. Now, as a senior, I am yet again in the HP category and I also qualified for Team Canada! I had the honour to represent Canada at the Pan American Championships, where our team brought home a bronze medal.

Apart from Gymnastics, I have many different hobbies and passions. I adore drawing and have won several art contests. For instance, my work featuring Viola Desmond acquired the second prize at the Kids For Human Rights Art competition. Organized by the United Nations Organization and the Gabarron Foundation, the contest celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2020 I won the Karuta art competition, and in 2017, the Burnaby 125th birthday art contest. Aside from art, I enjoy literature and public speaking, and I won 2 medals (one bronze and one silver) in the BC provincial Concours d’Art Oratoire. My poem, called “Toute Blanche” equally won the Burnaby Words Writing contest. Some of my other passions are horseback riding and Japanese. I love learning new languages (I speak four) and experiencing their cultures. I have received the Chairman’s Award twice for my calligraphy art. I relish acquiring new information, and my current school, Point Grey Mini, is helping me feed my hunger for knowledge.

My biggest ambition is performing (and winning) more at the international level with the ultimate goal of going to the Olympics. Being an Olympic champion is something I always dreamed of as a kid, and I am incredibly grateful to the people who are bringing me closer to this dream. I am very thankful for the delightful community in which I grew up and for all of the splendid people who have guided me along the way!

MY HOBBY

One of my favourite things to do in my spare time is to read. To immerse myself in a fictional world, leaving behind all my troubles, brings me exquisite joy. Some of my treasured books are Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas as well as numerous books by Margaret Atwood and Jane Austen. I also relish reading books that are similar in style to Orwell’s 1984 or Hard to Be a God by the Strugatsky brothers.

I LOVE HORSES

Horses are graceful, divine creatures. There are so many things that are perfect about them: the way they look, the way they move, their fluid bodies and shining coats, the way they smell, their velvet noses and ticklish ears.

I find every single one of them fascinating and different. Some horses are just simply magnificent. They are all beautiful and gorgeous and all different with lots of attitude and character.

I would love to have my very own horse, but I don’t live on a ranch and don’t have a barn or field to keep it, so this has to wait.

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