Oksana Grishuk
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Figure skating | |||
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| Gold | 1994 Lillehammer | Ice dancing | |
| Gold | 1998 Nagano | Ice dancing | |
Oksana (Pasha) Grishuk (born March 17, 1972 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a Russian figure skater. She began training in skating at the age of four. Grishuk moved to Moscow in 1986, and studied at the Sport University of Moscow from 1988 to 1992.
She won two Olympic gold medals and four World Championships in ice dancing with Evgeny Platov. The pair won 22 consecutive competitions during this time. They combined speed and difficult elements, and displayed their mastery of numerous styles of dance. In the mid or late 1990s, she bleached her hair platinum and began to identify herself as "Pasha" to help avoid confusion with another former Soviet ice skater who'd recently dyed her hair platinum, Oksana Baiul. Added to this notoriety was the leaking of the fact that Grishuk had carried on an affair with competitor Alexander Zhulin, who was married at the time to Maya Usova. Usova and Zhulin eventually divorced, and ironically enough, he paired up with Grishuk on the ice while Usova skated with Platov.
[edit] Competitive highlights
- World Championships: first in 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997
- Olympics: first in 1994 and 1998
- European Championships: first place in 1996, 1997, and 1998
[edit] External links
- Pasha Grishuk - The largest fansite for Oksana Grishuk
- Oksana Grishuk's official website
- Care to Ice Dance? - Grishuk & Platov
- "Evgeny Platov's Olympics"
[edit] Navigation
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1976: Lyudmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov | 1980: Natalia Linichuk & Gennadi Karponossov | 1984: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean | 1988: Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin | 1992: Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko | 1994: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov | 1998: Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov | 2002: Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat | 2006: Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov |
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1995/1996: Oksana Grishuk / Evgeni Platov | 1996/1997: Shae-Lynn Bourne / Viktor Kraatz | 1997/1998: Pasha Grishuk / Evgeni Platov | 1998/1999: Anjelika Krylova / Oleg Ovsyannikov | 1999/2000: Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat | 2000/2001: Barbara Fusar-Poli / Maurizio Margaglio | 2001/2002: Shae-Lynn Bourne / Viktor Kraatz | 2002/2003: Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh | 2003/2004-2005/2006: Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov | 2006/2007: Albena Denkova / Maxim Staviski |
