Maria Mukhortova
Maria Vladimirovna Mukhortova (Russian Мария Владимировна Мухортова, born November 20, 1985 in Leningrad) is a Russian figure skater.
Mukhortova began in the age of four with the figure skating. At this time, she lived with her parents in Lipetsk. However, they returned to her hometown of St. Petersburg to train there. My first partner was Egor Golovkin.
Your next partner was the later junior world champion Pavel Lebedev ( with Natalia Shestakova ) with which they could occupy the fourth place twice at Junior Championships Welte.
After the 2002/ 03 season a partner exchange took place. Mukhortova now ran with Maxim Trankov and Lebedev with Shestakova. The following year won Mukhortova / Trankov the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in 2005 and the couple became Junior World Champion.
After this season they changed the coach and went to Tamara Moskvina by Nikolai Welikow. In August of the same year they changed after a dispute with Moskvina the coach and trained henceforth at their assistants and double Olympic champion Artur Dmitriev ( 1992 Natalja Mischkutjonok & 1998 with Oksana Kazakova ) before in December 2006 to Oleg Vasiliev (Olympic Champion with partner Jelena Walowa ) went. Mukhortova and Trankov start for St. Petersburg Skating School, St. Petersburg.
At the Russian Championships 2006, the pair finished third, but was not allowed to participate in international championships since the Russian top pair, the reigning world champion Tatjana Totmjanina and Maxim Marinin injury could not attend. Only after their Olympic victory and the subsequent resignation occupy Mukhortova / Trankov the third Russian launch pad at the World Championships, where they finished in 12th place.
2007 Mukhortova / Trankov first time Russian champions, but were unable to attend the European Championships due to an injury Muchortowas. At the World Championships, she improved on the previous year to a place and were 11
In the following season they were defeated at the Russian Championships by Yuko and Alexander Smirnov Kawaguti, but won at the European Championships silver medal behind the Germans Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy and their fellow countrymen Kawaguchi / Smirnov. At the World Championships Mukhortova and Trankov occupied the 7th place, where they had to interrupt their freestyle, as Maxim Trankov had problems with blood circulation in his right arm.
At Skate America, the start of the 2008/09 season, Mukhortova and Trankov led a surprise after a clean short program even before the German world champions Savchenko / Szolkowy. After a botched freestyle with three falls, however, they were only third in the end. Something similar happened to them at the European Championships, for here they were before the German duo and their Russian compatriots Kawaguchi / Smirnov, but slip back down to third place.
Achievements
(unless otherwise mentioned with Maxim Trankov )
Legend: * with Pavel Lebedev