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Maria Stepanova






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Maria Stepanova
Personal information
Born (1979-02-23) 23 February 1979 (age 45)
Shpakovskoye, Stavropol Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Listed height6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight187 lb (85 kg)
Career information
WNBA draft1998: 1st round, 8th overall pick
Selected by the Phoenix Mercury
PositionCenter
Career history
1998–2001, 2005Phoenix Mercury
2006KB Stars
Career highlights and awards

Medals

Representing  Russia
Women's Basketball
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Team Competition
Bronze medal – third place 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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