Daniel Marinov

Daniel Nenkov Marinov (; born 17 December 2004) 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. 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.

Marniov competed at the 2026 European Championships alongside Mukhammadzhon Iakubov, Arsenii Dukhno, Savelii Sieedin, and Ilia Zaika. On the first day of competition, Marinov helped Russia (competing as World Gymnastics 2) qualify to the team final in first place and individually he won bronze in the all-around behind Illia Kovtun and Dukhno.