Maria Anatolyevna Sorokina (; born 19 August 1995) is a Russian
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...
player and member of the
Russian national team, currently playing in the
Zhenskaya Hockey League
The Zhenskaya Hockey League or ZhHL (), officially called the Women's Hockey League (WHL), is a professional ice hockey league in Russia, currently comprising eight teams. The league is also known as the PariMatch Women's Hockey League for sponso ...
(ZhHL) with
Agidel Ufa.
Sorokina represented Russia at the
IIHF Women's World Championships
The IIHF Women's World Championship is the premier international women's tournament in ice hockey. It is governed by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
The official world competition was first held in 1990, with four more champions ...
in
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
,
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
and
2017
2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
Events January
* January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
.
References
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1995 births
Living people
Ice hockey people from Tver
Russian women's ice hockey goaltenders
HC Agidel Ufa players
Connecticut Whale (PHF) players
Metropolitan Riveters players
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia
Winter World University Games medalists in ice hockey
Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade
Ice hockey players at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for Russia
21st-century Russian sportswomen
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