Maria Stepanova
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Born
1979 (47 years old)
Mikhaylovsk, RussiaPosition
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202 cm
Weight
85 kg
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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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 Basketball Olympics Bronze Women |  Russia Basketball Women | 2008 | |
 WNBA blocks leader |  Phoenix Mercury | 2005 | |
| Basketball Olympics Bronze Women | Russia Basketball Women | 2004 |
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| Russia Basketball Women | 1996-2011 | International | - | - | |
| Phoenix Mercury | 1998-2001 | Permanent | - | - | |
| Phoenix Mercury | 2005 | Permanent | - | - | |
 UMMC Ekaterinburg Women | 2008-2015 | Permanent | - | - |
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