Oksana Liapina

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Oksana Liapina was born, in Armavir, Russia on 28 April 1980 and shares her birthday with former team mate Roza Galiyeva.

A talented gymnast she competed in the 1995 Junior European Championships and helped her team win Gold.

In 1996 she went to the Olympic Games, along with Roza Galiyeva and Svetlana Khorkina but the team was disappointed when they could only win silver in team competition, rather than the Gold they felt they deserved, after coming top at the compulsaries. Russia had a tough time competing against the American crowd in Atlanta, which distracted them many times - resulting in many falls and wobbles. Oksana fell from the beam and ended the night in tears.

After the Olympics Oksana faired better and went on to win some of her first individual medals but an injury prevented her from proper training and competing, so she failed to make the 1997 World Championships.

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