Two-time Olympic synchronized swimming champion Maria Shurchkina is in intensive care with burns to her body after a fire in her apartment in Moscow. This was reported by her sister, the singer Nyusha.
According to her, the athlete's face and head were not injured. Shurochkina's condition is estimated to be stable.
Earlier Izvestia wrote that on the evening of November 8, a fire occurred in the house of the Olympic champion - according to preliminary data, it could be caused by a biological fireplace. As the publication's source notes, Maria Shurchkina has first and second degree burns and is hospitalized at the Skliposovsky Research Institute.
The Water Association expressed willingness to support the girl. "We wish Maria strength and a speedy recovery," the statement said.