Two-time Olympic champion in synchronized swimming and sister of singer Nyusha, Maria Shurchkina, almost burned to death due to a bio-fire in Moscow.
According to Mesh in Sport, it all happened when she lit a bio fireplace in her apartment on the 17th floor of the Savoy residential complex. The athlete's clothes caught fire. That's why she has 1st and 2nd degree burns. Shurochkina was hospitalized in moderate condition.
Maria won Olympic gold twice (Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2021), and also became a multiple world and European champion. She is also the younger sister of singer Nyusha. Her father, Vladimir Shurochkin, previously appeared as part of the May Auction group.