Maria Butyrskaya
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Maria Viktorovna Butyrskaya (Russian: Мария Викторовна Бутырская, born 28 June 1972) is a Russian retired figure skater. She is the 1999 World champion and a three-time European champion — becoming the oldest skater and the first Russian to win the World ladies' title and the oldest skater to win the European ladies' title (2002 at age 29). Butyrskaya placed fourth at the 1998 Winter Olympics and sixth at the 2002 Winter Olympics. She won the Russian national title six times.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Viktorovna and the family name is Butyrskaya.
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Full name | Maria Viktorovna Butyrskaya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1972-06-28) 28 June 1972 (age 52) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Began skating | 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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