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Marina Matrossova

Kazakhstani cross-country skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ3425432
Source-derived summary

Marina Matrosova (born 2 July 1990) is a cross-country skier from Kazakhstan who has competed since 2008. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she finished 35th in the 30 km event and 48th both in the individual sprint and 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit events.

Matrosova's best World Cup finish was 12th in a team sprint event while her best individual finish was 40th in a 15 km event at Slovenia in December 2009.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Marina Matrossova” is kazakhstani cross-country skier. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Marina, Matrossova and Kazakhstani, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2008, 2010, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-07-02. For this dossier, Marina, Matrossova and Kazakhstani is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “kazakhstani cross-country skier” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3425432. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990, 2008, 2010 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Marina Matrossova” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.