The Olympic champion was hospitalized with burns after a fire.
The 11-time world champion in synchronized swimming was injured in a fire in her apartment in Moscow. According to preliminary data, her clothes caught fire when the athlete lit the bio-fireplace.
Shurochkina was taken to the Skliposovsky Research Institute with first and second degree burns to her face, arms and chest. At first her condition was assessed as moderate, but later it worsened to severe due to the danger to her life.
Maria Shurochkina is the Olympic champion of the 2016 and 2020 games, as well as the sister of the singer Nyusha.
We wish her a speedy recovery.