Mariya Pisareva

Mariya Pisareva (Russian: Мария Писарева; 19 April 1933 – 10 December 2023) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the High Jump.

[1] 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.

This article about an Olympic medalist in athletics of the Soviet Union is a stub.