Maria Stepanova
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Maria Alexandrovna Stepanova (Template:Langx; born 23 February 1979) is a Russian professional and Olympic basketball player. In the United States, she played for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
At a height of 203 cm, she has been the sixth-tallest player in the league (along with Zheng Haixia and Lindsay Taylor). Margo Dydek, 7 ft 2 in (218 cm), Bernadett Határ, 6 ft 10.5 in (210 cm), Han Xu, 6 ft 11 in (211 cm), Brittney Griner and Liz Cambage, both 6 ft 9 in (206 cm), are taller than her. Heidi Gillingham, also 6 ft 10 in, and Allyssa DeHaan, 6 ft 9 in as well, never played in the WNBA. She wears size 15 (US) / 48 (EU) shoes. Though in the Russian national team, she has been overtaken by Ekaterina Lisina in being the tallest member.
Stepanova was born in the village of Shpakovskoye (now the town of Mikhaylovsk, in Stavropol Krai of the former Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, and grew up in Tosno, Leningrad Oblast.
Honours and awards
- Honoured Master of Sports of Russia
- Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class (2 August 2009) - for outstanding contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high achievements in sports at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008
- 3× FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year (2005, 2006, 2008)
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- 1979 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic basketball players for Russia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- People from Stavropol Krai
- Phoenix Mercury draft picks
- Phoenix Mercury players
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class
- Russian expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Russian women's basketball players
- Sportspeople from Stavropol Krai