Maria Bulanova

Maria Bulanova is a right-handed ten-pin bowler from Moscow, Russia, born on 13 October 1998, and one of the leading players of the Federation of Bowling of Russia. She has been on the Russian national youth and adult teams since 2012 and was Russian champion from 2013 to 2015. In September 2013, at age 14, she became the youngest player to win a European Bowling Tour title, and she took fifteen medals at European youth championships. She later bowled for the Vanderbilt Commodores in the United States, earning All-American honours and the 2017 National Rookie of the Year and 2019 Division I Player of the Year awards. She was the first Russian athlete to win gold at an international adult championship.