Not to be confused with Maria Stepanova (poet) or Mariya Stepanova.
Russian basketball player
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexandrovna and the family name is Stepanova.
Maria Stepanova
Personal information
Born
(1979-02-23) 23 February 1979 (age 45) Shpakovskoye, Stavropol Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality
Russian
Listed height
6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight
187 lb (85 kg)
Career information
WNBA draft
1998: 1st round, 8th overall pick
Selected by the Phoenix Mercury
Position
Center
Career history
1998–2001, 2005
Phoenix Mercury
2006
KB Stars
Career highlights and awards
WNBA blocks leader (2005)
3× FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year (2005, 2006, 2008)
3× Russian Player of the Year (2005–2007)
Medals
Representing Russia
Women's Basketball
Olympic Games
2004 Athens
Team Competition
2008 Beijing
Team Competition
Maria Alexandrovna Stepanova (Russian: Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Степа́нова; born 23 February 1979) is a Russian professional and Olympic basketball player. In the United States, she played for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
At a height of 203 cm, she has been the fifth-tallest player in the league (along with Liz Cambage, Zheng Haixia and Lindsay Taylor). Margo Dydek, 7 ft 2 in (218 cm), Bernadett Határ, 6 ft 10.5 in (210 cm), Han Xu, 6 ft 11 in (211 cm), and Brittney Griner, 6 ft 9 in (206 cm), are taller than her. Heidi Gillingham, also 6 ft 10 in, and Allyssa DeHaan, 6 ft 9 in as well, never played in the WNBA. She wears size 15 (US) / 48 (EU) shoes. Though in the Russian national team, she has been overtaken by Ekaterina Lisina in being the tallest member.
Stepanova was born in the village of Shpakovskoye (now the town of Mikhaylovsk, in Stavropol Krai of the former Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, and grew up in Tosno, Leningrad Oblast.
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