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| Born | 9 December 1985 (1985-12-09) (age 39) Tula, Russia | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 145 cm (4 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 36 kg (79 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Olga Baranova Maria Nazarova | |||||||||||||||||
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Maria Yuryevna Zasypkina (Russian: Мария Юрьевна Засыпкина, born 9 December 1985) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She won a team silver medal at the 2001 World Championships and an individual bronze at the 2000 European Championships, on the vault. In November 2001 she sustained a severe spine injury and retired from gymnastics.
Zasypkina's mother is an engineer-designer working at Almaz-Antey. Her father is a retired competitive sprint runner. Her elder sister Anna is a retired competitive artistic gymnast.
Zasypkina shares surname with Svetlana Zasypkina, another Russian artistic gymnast who retired in 1988 after a similar spine injury. These events were presented in the film A Little Doll.
References
- ^ Маша Засыпкина: Плачу только от злости. Sovetsky Sport. (1 February 2002)
- ТРИ ЖИЗНИ КУКОЛКИ. Ogonyok. Vol. 48 (5 December 2004). p. 29
- Как сложилась судьба девушки из фильма "Куколка"?. yandex.ru (24 April 2019).
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