Mariya Timofeyevna Shubina (russian: Мария Тимофеевна Шубина; born 12 May 1930) is a

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sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. She won the K-2 500 m gold medal at the

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. Shubina also won six medals at the

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with four golds (K-1 500 m:

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, K-2 500 m:

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, K-4 500 m: 1963,

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) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1963, 1966). Shubina was born in a family of a phone communications engineer in

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. In 1944 she enrolled to a gynecology school, and after graduating worked at a regional hospital. A keen cross-country skier and runner, she used to ski or run to work. In 1950 she enrolled to

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, where she continued training and competing in ski and athletics. Her first canoe race was accidental – she was asked to replace a missing teammate; she did not even know how to swim. A canoe coach noticed her then and convinced to start training. In 1956 Shubina graduated from the Kazan University, and later studied sport medicine in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. Since 1964 she lives in

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, together with her husband and sons Konstantin and Mikhail. In 1975 she defended a PhD in medicine.

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* 1930 births Living people Canoeists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic canoeists of the Soviet Union Soviet female canoeists Olympic medalists in canoeing Russian female canoeists ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Mordovia