Marija Timofejewna Schubina

Marija Schubina 1960

Marija Timofejewna Schubina ( Russian Мария Тимофеевна Шубина ; born May 8, 1930 in Protasovo , Itschalki Rajon , Mordovia ) is a former Soviet canoeist . She won an Olympic gold medal and four world titles.

Life

Schubina received her first international medal at the World Championships in 1958 , when she won in a two- person kayak together with Nina Grusinzewa in front of the second Soviet boat with Antonina Seredina and Jelisaweta Kislowa . 1959 won the European Championships Seredina and Kislowa before Schubina and Grusinzewa. At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , Seredina won the gold medals in a single kayak and in a two-man kayak, and in a two-man game, she and Schubina had 1.9 seconds ahead of West Germans Therese Zenz and Ingrid Hartmann .

In 1963, Schubina won the single kayak competition at the World Championships in Jajce in front of Lyudmila Chwedossjuk , and in a double the two Soviet canoeists took second place behind the West German Roswitha Esser and Annemarie Zimmermann . In the four-man kayak , which was held for the first time at the World Championships , the Soviet crew won with Valentina Bizak , Chwedossjuk, Schubina and Seredina.

In 1965 Chwedosyuk won the European Championships in the one before Seredina. Seredina and Schubina won in two, ahead of Chwedossjuk and Nadezhda Levtschenko, and the four canoeists won the four-man competition together. At the 1966 World Championships in East Berlin , Schubina and Seredina took second place behind the boat from the GDR. Schubina, Seredina, Pinajewa-Chwedossjuk and Levchenko won in the four. In the same line-up, the four-man also won the 1967 European Championships a year later.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

• Marija Timofejewna Schubina in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• The world championship results on Sport-Complete
• The European Championship results on Sport-Complete

Footnotes

1. ↑ According to the results lists on sport-komplett.de, the European and World Championships took place in Jajce in 1963 and had the same results except for the four-man team that was not listed at the European Championships. So far, no evidence has been found that there were actually two different events.