Mariya Penrivna Litoshenko ( ua, Марія Петрівна Літошенко, born September 24, 1949) is a former Soviet/ Ukrainian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player who competed in the

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. She was born in Kyiv. In 1976 she won the gold medal with the Soviet team. She played all five matches and scored six goals.

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1949 births Living people Sportspeople from Kyiv Soviet female handball players Ukrainian female handball players Handball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub