Maria Yuryevna Zasypkina (Russian: Мария Юрьевна Засыпкина, born 9 December 1985) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast. She won a team silver medal at the 2001 World Championships and an individual bronze at the 2000 European Championships, on the vault. In November 2001 she sustained a severe spine injury and retired from gymnastics. Zasypkina's mother is an engineer-designer working at

Almaz-Antey JSC Concern VKO "Almaz-Antey" (russian: link=no, ОАО "Концерн ВКО "Алмаз-Антей"») is a Russian state-owned company in the arms industry, a result of a merger of Antey Corporation and NPO Almaz, unifying some of the nat ...

. Her father is a retired competitive sprint runner. Her elder sister Anna is a retired competitive artistic gymnast. Zasypkina shares surname with Svetlana Zasypkina, another Russian artistic gymnast who retired in 1988 after a similar spine injury. These events were presented in the film ''

A Little Doll ''A Little Doll'' (russian: Куколка, Kukolka) is a 1988 Soviet drama film directed by Isaak Fridberg. Plot The film tells about a young gymnast who is seriously injured, as a result of which she decides to leave the sport. But it’s ver ...

''.Как сложилась судьба девушки из фильма "Куколка"?
yandex.ru (24 April 2019).

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1985 births Living people Russian female artistic gymnasts Sportspeople from Tula, Russia 21st-century Russian women {{russia-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub