Maria Aleksandrovna Stepanova (Russian: Мария Александровна Степанова) (born February 23, 1979) is a Russian professional and Olympic basketball player. In the United States, she plays for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
At a height of six foot eight inches, she is the second-tallest player in the league (along with Katie Feenstra, Zheng Haixia and Lindsay Taylor). Only Margo Dydek, at 7' 2", is taller. She wears a size 15 (US) / 48 (EU) shoe.
Stepanova was born in the village of Shpakovskoye, in the former Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the USSR, and grew up in Tosno, Leningrad Oblast.
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