Maria Vladimirovna Mukhortova

Maria Muchortova
Full name	Maria Vladimirovna Mukhortova
nation	Russia
birthday	November 20, 1985
place of birth	Leningrad ,  Soviet Union
size	162 cm
job	college student
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Jérôme Blanchard
Former partner	Maxim Trankov Pavel Lebedev
society	St. Petersburg Skating School
Trainer	Oleg Vasilyev
choreographer	Alexander Matveev
National squad	since 2005
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 1 × 2 × National medals 1 × 3 × 1 ×
European figure skating championships silver 2008 Zagreb Pair skating bronze 2009 Helsinki Pair skating bronze 2010 Tallinn Pair skating
Personal best
Total points 179.82 Cup of Russia 2007  Freestyle 116.72 Cup of Russia 2007  Short program 66.32 Skater America 2008
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 0 0 2
last change: January 22, 2009

Marija Wladimirowna Muchortowa ( Russian Мария Владимировна Мухортова ; born November 20, 1985 in Leningrad ) is a Russian figure skater.

Muchortowa started figure skating at the age of four. At that time she was living in Lipetsk with her parents . However, she returned to her native St. Petersburg to train there. Her first partner was Yegor Golovkin .

Her next partner was the later junior world champion Pavel Lebedew (with Natalia Schestakowa ), with whom she was able to take fourth place twice at junior world championships.

After the 2002/03 season a partner swap took place. Muchortowa now ran with Maxim Trankow and Lebedew with Shestakova. In the following year Muchortowa / Trankow won the bronze medal at the junior world championships and in 2005 the couple became junior world champions.

After this season they changed coach and went from Nikolai Velikow to Tamara Moskwina . Already in August of the same year, after a dispute with Moskvina, they changed coach and trained from then on with their assistant and double Olympic champion Artur Dmitrijew (1992 with Natalja Mischkutjonok & 1998 with Oxana Kasakowa ), before joining Oleg Wassiljew (Olympic champion with partner Jelena Walowa in December 2006) ) went. Muchortowa and Trankow start for St. Petersburg Skating School , St. Petersburg.

At the Russian championships in 2006, the couple finished third, but were not allowed to take part in international championships, as the Russian top couple, the reigning world champions Tatjana Totmjanina and Maxim Marinin, could not participate due to injury. Only after their Olympic victory and the subsequent resignation Muchortowa / Trankow occupy the third Russian starting place at the world championships, where they finished 12th.

2007 Muchortowa / Trankow were first Russian champions, but could not take part in the European championships due to an injury Muchortowas. At the World Championships they improved by one place compared to the previous year and came 11th.

In the following season they were defeated at the Russian championships by Yuko Kawaguti and Alexander Smirnow , but won the silver medal at the European championships behind the German Aljona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy and ahead of their compatriots Kawaguchi / Smirnow. At the World Championships Muchortowa and Trankow finished 7th, where they had to interrupt their freestyle because Maxim Trankow had problems with the blood circulation in his right arm.

At Skate America , the start of the 2008/09 season, Muchortowa and Trankow surprisingly led the German world champions Savchenko / Szolkowy after a faultless short program. After a failed freestyle with three falls, however, they only finished third in the end. It was similar for them at the European Championships, because here too they led the German duo and their Russian compatriots Kawaguchi / Smirnow, but slipped back to third place.

successes

(unless otherwise mentioned with Maxim Trankow)

Competition / winter season	01-02	02-03	03-04	04-05	05-06	06-07	07-08	08-09
winter Olympics	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
World championships	-	-	-	-	12.	11.	7th
European championships	-	-	-	-	-	-	2.	3.
Junior World Championships	4. *	4. *	3.	1.	-	-	-	-
Russian championships	-	5. *	-	-	3.	1.	2.	2.
Russian Junior Championships	3. *	-	1.	-	-	-	-	-
Skate America	-	-	-	-	-	5.	-	3.
Eric Bompard Trophy	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.	2.
Skate Canada	-	-	-	-	7th	-	-	-
Cup of Russia	-	-	-	6th	4th	7th	4th	-
ISU Grand Prix Final	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6th

Legend: * with Pavel Lebedev

Web links

Commons : Maria Mukhortova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Marija Muchortowa / Maxim Trankow in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Marija Muchortowa / Pawel Lebedew in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Official homepage of the couple