Maria Komissarova

Maria Leonidovna Komissarova (; born September 5, 1990) is a Russian athlete who competes in freestyle skiing. She was due to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics, but during a training run before her event, she fractured a vertebra with a dislocation of her spine, rendering her unable to compete.

Career Komissarova was born on 5 September 1990,

At the 2012 World Cup in Grindelwald, Switzerland, Maria Komissarova became the first-ever Russian woman to win a medal in the World Cup in ski cross, placing second.

In 2013, surgery on a leg injury meant that Komissarova was unable to compete for six months. However, while training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park on the ski cross course on 15 February 2014, she suffered a spinal cord injury with a fracture and dislocation of the twelfth thoracic vertebra. Komissarova was rushed into surgery which lasted six and a half hours. Vladimir Putin visited the skier and spoke to her father. Komissarova said in an Instagram update at the end of February that she was paralyzed from the waist and down. The Russian Freestyle Federation has called for donations to cover her medical costs. She hopes to recover, saying "some day I will definitely be on my feet again". However, on 5 March, the opinion of her doctors was published stating she would never fully recover. £400,000 has been raised for her treatment.