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About Mariya Shubina
- Mariya Timofeyevna Shubina (Russian: ????? ?????????? ??????, born 12 May 1930) is a Soviet sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.
- She won the K-2 500 m gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
- Shubina also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1958, K-4 500 m: 1963, 1966) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1963, 1966).Shubina was born in a family of a phone communications engineer in Mordovia.
- 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 Kazan State Medical University, 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.
- Since 1964 she lives in Volgograd, together with her husband and sons Konstantin and Mikhail.
- In 1975 she defended a PhD in medicine.
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