Marija Orlowa lives in Saint Petersburg . In December 2008 she made her debut in Winterberg in the Skeleton European Cup and was ninth in her first race, reaching the top ten. Only in one of the eight races of the season did she miss the top ten. Her best performance was a sixth place in Igls , in the overall standings she was eighth. The following season went even better . Orlowa again only missed the top ten in one of the eight races of the season. The best results were fourth in Königssee and St. Moritz . In the overall standings she also came fourth behind Sophia Griebel , Michelle Bartleman and Micaela Widmer . At the 2010 Junior World Championships in Königssee, the Russian came ninth. In the 2010/11 season Orlowa competed in all four international racing series of skeleton sports. First, she took part in the first race of the season in the Skeleton America's Cup 2010/11 in Park City , where she was eleventh. Then she started for four races in the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup 2010/11 and came in all four races in the top ten. After two races in the European Cup in Altenberg, she contested her first races in the World Cup . On her debut in Igls, Orlowa was 19th. In the second race in Winterberg, she was ninth among the top ten. The race was also the 2011 European Skeleton Championship , where she was sixth.
In the following season Orlowa started exclusively in the World Cup , where she reached two top ten places and was twelfth overall. At the European Championships she was again sixth. She achieved the same position in the team competition of the world championship , in the individual she was 22. She was also in action in the 2012/13 World Cup and at the beginning of the season was only able to achieve positions between 12 and 17 before she was third in Igls and at the same time took second place at the European Championships . However, all of her results for the season were retrospectively canceled because she had used irregular runners. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Orlowa started in the North American Cup and returned to the World Cup after two victories there . After placings between 7 and 15, she finished third in Igls, thus taking her first regular podium. In the overall World Cup she was tenth, at the Olympic Games in Sochi sixth. In 2014/15 Orlowa was initially in action in the Intercontinental Cup and only entered the World Cup in January 2015 , where she celebrated her first World Cup victory at her first start in Altenberg. In her second race in Königssee, she finished third again on the podium. She was fourth at the European Championships and second in the last World Cup race of the season. In the overall standings she finished 12th after five participations in eight races. At the 2015 Skeleton World Championship she won the bronze medal in the team competition and finished eleventh in the individual.
At the end of 2016, Orlowa was suspended from Sochi, alongside Alexander Tretyakov , Olga Potylizyna and Jelena Nikitina, in the course of the investigation into the McLaren report for alleged doping offenses during the 2014 Olympic Games. In 2017, she received a lifelong Olympic ban.
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