About Mariya Pisareva
Lived 1933 – 2023 (aged 90). Mariya Pisareva was a Russian athletics competitor.
Mariya Pisareva (; 19 April 1933 – 10 December 2023) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the High Jump. She trained at Zenit in Moscow.
Pisareva competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the High Jump where she won the silver medal jointly with Thelma Hopkins.
After her athletic career, she married a discus thrower Oto Grigalka. Mariya Pisareva died on 10 December 2023, at the age of 90.
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Who was Mariya Pisareva?
Soviet high jumper (1933–2023)
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Mariya Pisareva was born on 19 April 1933.
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Mariya Pisareva died on 11 December 2023.
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Mariya Pisareva was an athletics competitor.
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Mariya Pisareva was Russian.
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