Maria Stepanova

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Maria Stepanova
KB Stars
Career highlights and awards
  • FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year
    (2005, 2006, 2008)
  • Russian Player of the Year
    (2005–2007)
Medals
Representing  Russia
Women's Basketball
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Team Competition
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing
Team Competition

Maria Alexandrovna Stepanova (Russian: Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Степа́нова; born 23 February 1979) is a Russian professional and Olympic basketball player. In the United States, she played for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

At a height of 203 cm, she has been the fifth-tallest player in the league (along with

Ekaterina Lisina
in being the tallest member.

Stepanova was born in the village of Shpakovskoye (now the town of Mikhaylovsk, in Stavropol Krai of the former Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, and grew up in Tosno, Leningrad Oblast.

Honours and awards

  • Honoured Master of Sports of Russia
  • Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class (2 August 2009) - for outstanding contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high achievements in sports at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008
  • FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year
    (2005, 2006, 2008)

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