Maria Sotskova is the 2017 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time Internationaux de France silver medalist, the 2016 NHK Trophy bronze medalist, the 2017 CS Finlandia Trophy champion, and the 2018 Russian national silver medalist.
19 Facts About Maria Sotskova
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Maria Sotskova placed 8th at the 2017 and 2018 World Figure Skating Championships and at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Maria Romanovna Sotskova was born on 12 April 2000 in Reutov, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
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Maria Sotskova began skating as a four-year-old after her mother decided to bring her to an ice rink.
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Maria Sotskova won a bronze medal behind Serafima Sakhanovich at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships.
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Maria Sotskova made her junior international debut at the 2013 Junior Grand Prix event in Riga, Latvia; she won the silver medal behind Evgenia Medvedeva by a margin of 3.03 points.
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Maria Sotskova then took silver behind Sakhanovich at the 2014 Russian Junior Championships and was assigned to the 2014 World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Maria Sotskova finished fourth in Barcelona, Spain at her second JGP Final.
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In June 2015, Maria Sotskova travelled to Artesia, California to have her programs choreographed, and to work with Rafael Arutyunyan on her jumps.
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In February, Maria Sotskova represented Russia at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Hamar, Norway, winning the silver medal behind teammate Tsurskaya again.
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Maria Sotskova was the only Russian to finish the competition, as her two teammates Polina Tsurskaya and Alisa Fedichkina withdrew right before the short skate and the free respectively, due to unexpected ankle injuries for both.
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Maria Sotskova began her season at the 2016 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial, where she placed second in the short and first in the free skate to win the gold medal ahead of teammate Yulia Lipnitskaya.
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At the 2018 European Championships, held in January in Moscow, Maria Sotskova finished fourth, losing to teammates Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva and Italy's Carolina Kostner.
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Maria Sotskova made her season debut at the 2018 Japan Open, where she placed sixth individually.
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At the 2019 Russian Championships, Maria Sotskova placed twelfth in the short program due to doubling her triple Lutz, therefore losing 3.8 points in base value.
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Maria Sotskova placed sixteenth in the free skate and sixteenth overall.
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Maria Sotskova was named as the second alternate to the 2019 Winter Universiade, and after the withdrawals of teammates Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Evgenia Medvedeva, she was added to the team along with Stanislava Konstantinova.
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Maria Sotskova placed seventh there with a total score of 170.20, the lowest score of her senior career.
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Over two months after her retirement, she received a 10-year disqualification from the sport by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency for forging a medical certificate to explain a doping violation; it was later reported that Maria Sotskova was using the banned diuretic furosemide.