Mariya Dmitriyenko Explained

Mariya Dmitriyenko
Birth Name:	Мария Дмитриенко
Birth Date:	24 March 1988
Birth Place:	Shymkent, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Sport:	Sports shooting

Mariya Dmitriyenko (Kazakh: Mariia Dmitrienko; Russian: Мария Дмитриенко|Mariya Dmitriyenko, born 24 March 1988) is a Kazakh sports shooter. She competed in the women's trap event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[1]

In March 2012, she won the Amir of Kuwait International Shooting Grand Prix, but at the award ceremony, the parody national anthem from the 2006 film Borat was mistakenly played instead of the real Kazakh national anthem. The team complained, and the award ceremony was restaged. The incident apparently resulted from the wrong song being downloaded from the Internet.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mariya Dmitriyenko . 7 August 2016 . Rio 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160806033324/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/mariya-dmitriyenko . 6 August 2016 . live .
2. Web site: Borat anthem played by mistake at medals ceremony. Eurosport . 24 March 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120326205959/http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/borat-anthem-played-mistake-medals-ceremony-112050453.html . 26 March 2012.
3. News: Borat anthem stuns Kazakh gold medallist in Kuwait . BBC News . 23 March 2012 . 21 June 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180718165835/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17491344 . 18 July 2018 . live.