Today we’ll talk about the young hope of the Russian skeleton. Maria Sergeevna Orlova - master of sports, stands for the Russian team, the sport is a slope, winner of the European and World Championships.
Biography and career
Maria Orlova was born on April 14, 1988 in St. Petersburg. Height - 167 cm, weight - 69 kg.
Young Masha immediately began to get involved in athletics, but eventually realized that she would not be able to succeed in this sport and began to engage in skeleton.
Actively Maria Orlova has been practicing skeleton since she was 12 years old, and in 2008 Masha was selected for the national team, where she began to take part in major international class competitions, showing very good results.
Debuting at the European Cup in the German town of Winterberg, Orlova showed the ninth time, with the same results spent the rest of the season. The girl always clung to the ten strongest.
Then Maria was waiting for the youth world championship, the result of which is ninth place.
In the next season, Maria Orlova significantly increased the pace: only once she failed to gain a foothold in ten of the eight stages completed, and in the overall standings the season ended in fourth place.
At the end of 2010, with varying success, the athlete participated in the America's Cup and in the same season took part in the Intercontinental Cup.
The season of 2012, Maria Orlova did not quite successfully. She participated immediately in all cup competitions, and the best result was on the track in Switzerland (St. Moritz), where the athlete won ninth place. At the end of the season, Masha was 12th in the overall standings.
Significant Rewards
In 2013, in the Austrian city of Eagles at the European Championship Orlova won silver, which went into the general classification, thanks to this Masha received an additional cup medal - bronze. In the mixed team competitions of the World Cup in Winterberg, Maria replenished her coin box with another bronze medal.
The athlete has more than one performance ahead, and Maria Orlova, whose biography is not yet so extensive, will be repeatedly seen in this sports field. Good luck to the young and promising sportswoman.