Mariya Dzhumabaevna Pinigina (Мария Джумабаевна Пинигина, née Kulchunova; born 9 February 1958 in Ivanovka, Kyrgyz SSR) is a former Olympic athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres, training at Spartak in Kyiv.

Pinigina competed for USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the 4 × 400 metres where she won the gold medal with her teammates 400m hurdles silver medalist Tatyana Ledovskaya, 400m bronze medalist Olga Nazarova and olympic 400m champion Olga Bryzgina.

That USSR relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten.

[2] Mariya Pinigina is married to Olympic wrestling champion Pavel Pinigin[citation needed].

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article relating to Kyrgyzstani athletics is a stub.