Maria Butyrskaya
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Butyrskaya in 2010
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| Full name | Maria Viktorovna Butyrskaya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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28 June 1972 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Elena Tchaikovskaya, Vladimir Kotin, Viktor Kudriavtsev, Vladimir Korolov, Irina Nifontova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Elena Tchaikovskaya | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Began skating | 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Maria Viktorovna Butyrskaya (Russian: Мария Викторовна Бутырская, born 28 June 1972) is a Russian 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.
Maria Butyrskaya was born on 28 June 1972 in Moscow. Her parents divorced after the birth of her younger brother.
In summer 2006, Butyrskaya married a hockey player, Vadim Khomitski. As of 2010, he plays in Russia for Khimik's successor team Atlant Moscow Oblast. He is 10 years younger than her. [1] Their first child, a son name Vladislav, was born on 16 April 2007. At his birth, he weighed-in at 7.7 pounds and was 20 inches long. On 3 June 2009, their second child, a daughter, was born.
As a child, Butyrskaya was coached by Irina Nifontova for eight years. After she decided to retire, Butyrskaya had a couple of coaches, one of whom told her she had no talent, and then contacted Vladimir Korolov. He improved her compulsory figures but they were then dropped from competitions. After Korolov moved to Greece, Butyrskaya was coached by Viktor Kudriavtsev for several years until he told her that she was strong technically but he could not help her mentally. Her coach then became Elena Tchaikovskaya.
Butyrskaya competed for the Soviet Union until its dissolution and then began representing Russia. She first showed promise with a victory ahead of veterans Josee Chouinard and Tonya Harding at the 1992 Skate Canada International, with her free skate including five triples, and then placed 5th in her European Championship debut. At the 1993 World Championships, Butyrskaya did not advance past the qualifying round, which resulted in Russia having no entry in ladies' singles at the 1994 Olympics. In the 1993-94 season, she finished second behind Olga Markova at the Russian Nationals and 4th behind Markova at that year's Europeans. Markova thus received Russia's lone berth to the 1994 World Championships.
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