Maria Butyrskaya

Marija Viktorovna Butyrskaya (Russian Мария Викторовна Бутырская; born June 28, 1972 in Moscow) is a former Russian figure skater who started in a single run. It is the world champion in 1999 and European champion in 1998, 1999 and 2002.

Career

Marija Butyrskaya began at the age of four years with the figure skating. Your trainer was Galina Titkow. They soon came to a conveyor group of CSKA Moscow and trained there among others Jelena Wodoresowa. When they had to pause as a trainer because of a pregnancy, Butyrskaya came to Galina Titkow. After a year of cooperation this attested to their prospects. So Butyrskaya perforce had to leave and first finish the training with 15 years of the club. Three months later, she was looking for a new coach. She phoned among others, Vladimir Kovalev, the world champion of 1977 and 1979, who invited her for a trial in the Ukraine. Two hours after that phone call, she was already on the way to Kovalev. With him she met the then obligatory duty figures, their hitherto greatest weakness. When the training was successful, the duty of the International Skating Union, however, was abolished. After two years of working with these Kovalev went to Greece. So she moved in 1991 to Viktor Kudryavtsev for SC Dynamo Moscow. With him she remained for six years. In training, they even jumped the triple axel with him. In 1997 she moved again the coach and went to Jelena Tschaikowskaja.

Butyrskaya in 1993 and from 1995 to 1999 Russian champion and holds these six league titles the record for the most wins at the Russian Championships in the women's competition. In the period from 1993 to 2002, she participated in all European Championships. 1998, 1999 and 2002, she was European champion, 2000 and 2001 European silver medalist and 1996 she won the bronze medal. 1993 Butyrskaya denied their first world championship and finished it on the 29th place. Then she took from 1996 to 2002 in all World Cups and never placed worse than fifth, with the exception of their last World Cup, when she retired. 1998 and 2000 she won the bronze medal in Helsinki in 1999 before she became world champion Michelle Kwan and Julija Soldatowa. Butyrskaya thus became the first Russian world champion in the women's competition. At age 26 she was the oldest world champion in history, but was Madge Syers ( 1881-1917 ) hardly younger bring home the title in 1907. An Olympic medal remained Butyrskaya denied in Nagano in 1998 they finished fourth and 2002 in Salt Lake City, she was sixth.

Butyrskaya was involved throughout her career very much of their choreography and their costumes. She was often admired for their artistry as. Well as for their ladylike, particularly caught my eye, especially since the end of their career, many of its competitors only half as old as they were She was also known for the beauty of their triple ride Bergers and triple Lutz jump. However, it was considered somewhat weak nerves in competitions.

1999, during the Russian Championships, her exploded in front of her house parked BMW. This event was part of a series of offenses of the Russian mafia, which were directed against well-known Russian sportsmen.

Marija Butyrskaya studied sports specializing figure skating. In 2002, she ended her amateur career and turned professional. She also worked as Fernsehkommentatorin, had his own TV show and also played in some TV series with.

Private

Butyrskaya is married with Russian ice hockey player Vadim Chomizki and has two children with him.

Results

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1998 World Figure Skating Championships 1999 World Figure Skating Championships 2000 World Figure Skating Championships 1996 European Figure Skating Championships 1998 European Figure Skating Championships 1999 European Figure Skating Championships 2000 European Figure Skating Championships 2001 European Figure Skating Championships 2002 European Figure Skating Championships Single skating 1977 World Figure Skating Championships 1979 World Figure Skating Championships Axel jump 1993 World Figure Skating Championships Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics Loop jump Winter Olympic Games 1996 World Figure Skating Championships 1997 World Figure Skating Championships 2001 World Figure Skating Championships 2002 World Figure Skating Championships 1993 European Figure Skating Championships 1994 European Figure Skating Championships 1995 European Figure Skating Championships 1997 European Figure Skating Championships Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Russian Figure Skating Championships Lily Kronberger Sonja Henie Cecilia Colledge Megan Taylor Barbara Ann Scott Jeannette Altwegg Jacqueline du Bief Tenley Albright Gundi Busch Carol Heiss Petra Burka Peggy Fleming Gabriele Seyfert Trixi Schuba Karen Magnussen Christine Errath Dianne de Leeuw Dorothy Hamill Elaine Zayak Rosalynn Sumners Debi Thomas Jill Trenary Kristi Yamaguchi Chen Lu Kimmie Meissner Carolina Kostner Eva Pawlik Valda Osborn Hanna Walter Regine Heitzer Claudia Kristofics-Binder Claudia Leistner Sarah Meier (figure skater) Elena Sokolova Adelina Sotnikova Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
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