Maria BUTYRSKAYA

 

 

Russia

Single

 

Date of birth / Születési idõ

 28 June 1972

Place of birth / Születés helye

 Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)

Height / Magasság

 160 cm

Weight / Súly

 48 kg (1998)

Home town  /Lakóhely

 Moscow

Profession / Foglalkozás

 Student

Hobbies / Hobbi

 billiards, music, ballet

Start skating / Korcsolyázás kezdete

 1977

Club

 Dynamo Moscow

 

Coach / Edzõ

 Elena Tchaikovskaya, Vladimir Kotin

Choreographer / Koreográfus

 Elena Tchaikovskaya

Former coach / Régebbi edzõ

 Viktor Kudriavtsev

Practice low season / Gyakorlás holtszezonban (h/week)

 18 at Moscow

Practice high season / Gyakorlás fõszezonban  (h/week)

 24 at Moscow

 

Music Short Program as of 2000/2001 season

 Scène d'amour by Francis Lai - performed by Sarah Brightman

Music Free Skating as of 2000/2001 season

 Seventeen Moments in Spring (Russian movie soundtrack) by  Mikael Tariverdiev

Music Short Program as of 2001/2002 season

 Tune of the White Nights (soundtrack) by Isaak Shwartz

Music Free Skating as of 2001/2002 season

 Tale of Wandering  by Alfred Schnittke


Results / Eredmények

 

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

Olympic Games / Olimpia

 

 

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

6

World Champ./ Világbajnokság

 

 

 

4

5

3

1

3

4

WD

European Champ./ Európabajnokság

5

4

7

3

4

1

1

2

2

1

National Champ./ Nemzeti Bajnokság

 

2

1

1

1

1

1

2

3

2

 

International Competition:

 1999

 NHK Trophy, Nagoya

1

 2000

 ISU Grand Prix Final, Lyon

3

 2000

 Japan Open, Tokyo

2

 2000

 Sparkassen Cup on Ice, Gelsenkirchen

1

 2000

 Trophée Lalique, Paris

1

 2000

 NHK Trophy, Asahikawa

2

 2001

 Japan Open, Tokyo

1

 2001

 ISU Grand Prix Final, Tokyo

4

 2001

 Sparkassen Cup on Ice, Gelsenkirchen

1

 2001

 Trophee Lalique, Paris

1

 2001

 Goodwill Games, Brisbane

6

 2002

 ISU Grand Prix Final, Kitchener

4

Maria Butyrskaya became the first Russian lady skater ever to win the World Championships. Winning at the age of 26, she also was the oldest ladies World Champion in history. The Russian won her first major title when she became European Champion in 1998. Butyrskaya is thinking about working in the field of choreography when she has finished her active skating career. Even now she is doing a lot of her own choreography, and she also takes part in designing her costumes. The Muscovite usually picks her music herself. The FP "17 Moments in Spring" is the soundtrack of a famous Soviet movie about a Russian spy against Nazi Germany during the second World War. The music was newly arranged for the skater. Butyrskaya started to skate at her kindergarden and soon won all the little competitions the kindergarden people set up for the children. She was then accepted at the famous ZSKA club in Moscow where she trained for years. However, when she was a teenager a coach didn't believe in her talent anymore and she had to leave the club and to look for another coach.
International Skating Union, Chemin de Primerose 2, CH - 1007 Lausanne 01.01.2003 

Pictures / Képek