Mariya Shubina

Mariya Shubina

Shubina in 1960
Personal information
Born	(1930-05-12)12 May 1930 Protasovo, Ichalkovsky District, Mordovian Autonomous Oblast, Middle Volga Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	20 April 2025(2025-04-20) (aged 94)
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport	Canoe sprint
Club	Spartak Vladivostok
Medal record Representing the Soviet Union Olympic Games 1960 Rome K-2 500 m World Championships 1958 Prague K-2 500 m 1963 Jajce K-1 500 m 1963 Jajce K-4 500 m 1963 Jajce K-2 500 m 1966 East Berlin K-4 500 m 1966 East Berlin K-2 500 m

Mariya Timofeyevna Shubina (Russian: Мария Тимофеевна Шубина; 12 May 1930 – 20 April 2025) was a Soviet sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. She won the K-2 500 m gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Shubina also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1958, K-4 500 m: 1963, 1966) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1963, 1966).

Shubina was born into a family of telephone communications engineers in Mordovia. In 1944 she enrolled in a gynecology school, and after graduating worked at a regional hospital. A keen cross-country skier and runner, she used to ski or run to work. In 1950 she enrolled in Kazan State Medical University, where she continued training and competing in ski and athletics. Her first canoe race was accidental – she was asked to replace a missing teammate; she did not even know how to swim. A canoe coach noticed her then and convinced her to start training.

In 1956 Shubina graduated from the Kazan University, and later studied sport medicine in Saint Petersburg. Beginning in 1964 she lived in Volgograd, together with her husband and sons Konstantin and Mikhail. In 1975 she defended a PhD in medicine.

External links

• Mariya Shubina at IMDb
• Mariya Shubina at Olympics.com
• Mariya Shubina at Olympedia