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Born | Leningrad, Soviet Union | September 5, 1990
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 71 kg (157 lb; 11.2 st) |
Life partner | Alexei Chaadaev |
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Coached by | Vladimir Baryshnikov Mario Reyfettseder |
Updated on 16 February 2014 |
Maria Leonidovna Komissarova ( Russian: Мария Леонидовна Комиссарова; born September 5, 1990) is a Russian athlete who competes in freestyle skiing. She was due to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics, but during a training run before her event, she fractured a vertebra with a dislocation of her spine, rendering her unable to compete.
Komissarova was born on 5 September 1990, [1] in Leningrad, Soviet Union (today St. Petersburg). [2]
At the 2012 World Cup in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Maria Komissarova became the first-ever Russian woman to win a medal in the World Cup in ski cross, placing second. [3] She has been described as the "face of Russian freestyle skiing". [4]
In 2013, surgery on a leg injury meant that Komissarova was unable to compete for six months. [3]
Komissarova was due to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. [1] However, while training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park [5] on the ski cross course on 15 February 2014, she suffered a spinal cord injury with a fracture and dislocation of the twelfth thoracic vertebra. [3] [6] Komissarova was rushed into surgery which lasted six and a half hours. [5] The Russian Federation, for which she was competing, said, "Doctors carried out the necessary examination and took the decision to operate on her on the spot". [3] Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said, "We hope that the operation will be successful and that she will be back". [3] She was due to compete on the 21 February 2014, [3] but it was announced after the accident that she would not be competing. [5] Hers was the first serious injury of the 2014 Olympic Games. [3]
On the same day Komissarova was admitted to hospital, on the evening of 15 February 2014, [7] Vladimir Putin visited the skier [8] and spoke to her father. [7]
On 16 February 2014, the day after the incident, Komissarova was moved to a Munich hospital where she underwent further surgery on 17 February. [9] [10] Komissarova said in an Instagram update at the end of February that she was paralyzed from the waist and down. [11] The Russian Freestyle Federation has called for donations to cover her medical costs. [12] She hopes to recover, saying "some day I will definitely be on my feet again". [13] However, on 5 March, the opinion of her doctors was published stating she would never fully recover. [14] £400,000 has been raised for her treatment.
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Personal information | |
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Born | Leningrad, Soviet Union | September 5, 1990
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 71 kg (157 lb; 11.2 st) |
Life partner | Alexei Chaadaev |
Sport | |
Country | ![]() |
Sport | ![]() |
Coached by | Vladimir Baryshnikov Mario Reyfettseder |
Updated on 16 February 2014 |
Maria Leonidovna Komissarova ( Russian: Мария Леонидовна Комиссарова; born September 5, 1990) is a Russian athlete who competes in freestyle skiing. She was due to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics, but during a training run before her event, she fractured a vertebra with a dislocation of her spine, rendering her unable to compete.
Komissarova was born on 5 September 1990, [1] in Leningrad, Soviet Union (today St. Petersburg). [2]
At the 2012 World Cup in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Maria Komissarova became the first-ever Russian woman to win a medal in the World Cup in ski cross, placing second. [3] She has been described as the "face of Russian freestyle skiing". [4]
In 2013, surgery on a leg injury meant that Komissarova was unable to compete for six months. [3]
Komissarova was due to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. [1] However, while training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park [5] on the ski cross course on 15 February 2014, she suffered a spinal cord injury with a fracture and dislocation of the twelfth thoracic vertebra. [3] [6] Komissarova was rushed into surgery which lasted six and a half hours. [5] The Russian Federation, for which she was competing, said, "Doctors carried out the necessary examination and took the decision to operate on her on the spot". [3] Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said, "We hope that the operation will be successful and that she will be back". [3] She was due to compete on the 21 February 2014, [3] but it was announced after the accident that she would not be competing. [5] Hers was the first serious injury of the 2014 Olympic Games. [3]
On the same day Komissarova was admitted to hospital, on the evening of 15 February 2014, [7] Vladimir Putin visited the skier [8] and spoke to her father. [7]
On 16 February 2014, the day after the incident, Komissarova was moved to a Munich hospital where she underwent further surgery on 17 February. [9] [10] Komissarova said in an Instagram update at the end of February that she was paralyzed from the waist and down. [11] The Russian Freestyle Federation has called for donations to cover her medical costs. [12] She hopes to recover, saying "some day I will definitely be on my feet again". [13] However, on 5 March, the opinion of her doctors was published stating she would never fully recover. [14] £400,000 has been raised for her treatment.