Maria Orlova - the hope of the Russian skeleton

Today, let's talk about the young hope of the Russian skeleton. Maria Sergeevna Orlova is a master of sports, stands for the Russian national team, a kind of sport - skleton, prize-winner of 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 to succeed in this sport can not and began to skeleton.

Actively Maria Orlova was skeleton from the age of 12, and in 2008 Masha was selected to the national team, where she began to take part in major international 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 has always clung to the top ten.

Further, Maria was waiting for the youth world championship, the result of which is the ninth place.

In the following season, Maria Orlova significantly increased the pace: only once she failed to gain a foothold in the top ten of the eight stages held, and in the overall standings, the season finished 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.

Season 2012 Maria Orlova did not quite happily. She participated in all cup competitions at once, and the best result was on the track in Switzerland (St. Moritz), where the athlete won ninth place. At the end of the season in the overall standings Masha was the 12th.

Significant rewards

In 2013, in the Austrian city of Igls at the European Championships, Orlova won silver, which went into general credit, thanks to this Masha received an additional cup medal - bronze. In the mixed team competition of the World Championships in Winterburg, Maria replenished her piggy bank with another bronze medal.

Ahead of the athlete is not one performance, and Maria Orlova, whose biography is not so extensive, will be seen on this sporting field more than once. We wish good luck to a young and promising girl.