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Maria Voronina
Voronina in 2018
Personal information
Full nameMaria Aleksandrovna Voronina
Born (2000-02-18) February 18, 2000 (age 24)
Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia
HometownObninsk
Height168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight61 kg (134 lb)[1]
Beach volleyball information
Current teammate
Teammate
Maria Bocharova
Career
Teams
 Russia VC Obninsk[2]

Maria Aleksandrovna Voronina (Russian: Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Воро́нина; born February 18, 2000, in Obninsk[3]) is a Russian beach volleyball player. She is a Youth Olympic champion 2018 with Maria Bocharova.[4][5][6]

Career

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Voronina was a member of the Obninsk beach volleyball school for eight years and she was coached under Elena Masalyova.[7][8]

Voronina and her teammate Maria Bocharova won the European Junior Championships U18 and U20 in 2017 and in 2018 they won the FIVB Beach Volleyball U19 World Championships.[9][10]

At 2018 Summer Youth Olympics the Voronina–Bocharova duet made it to the final, they beat a couple from Italy Scampoli–Bertozzi (21:19, 21:19) and won the championship.[11]

At 2019 Beach Volleyball U21 World Championship the Voronina–Bocharova duet made it to the final, but lost to a couple from Brazil Victoria-Vitoria in a difficult dramatic tie-break match:

Russia-Brazil(1-2(21-17;15-21;13-15)) It was the first major failure.

References

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Media related to Maria Voronina at Wikimedia Commons


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