Oxana Slesarenko Explained

Oxana Slesarenko
Gender:	female
Birth Date:	27 April 1970
Birth Place:	Sverdlovsk, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Curling Club:	Rodnik CC (Yekaterinburg)
World Wheelchair Championship Appearances:	8
Paralympic Appearances:	1 (2014)

Oxana Vladimirovna Slesarenko^[1] (Russian: Окса́на Влади́мировна Слесаре́нко; born April 27, 1970, in Sverdlovsk, USSR) is a Russian wheelchair curler.

Career

She is a member of the local sports club "Rodnik" (Yekaterinburg), where she started wheelchair curling in 2003.^[2] It was the first wheelchair curling team in Russia.^{[3] [4]}

She was a participant of the 2014 Winter Paralympic games and eight World Wheelchair Curling Championships.

She injured her spinal cord in a car accident in 1986 when she was at the age of 16.^[5]

Awards

• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class (17 March 2014) – for the huge contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, and for the high athletic performances at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi^[6]
• Merited Master of Sports of Russia (2013)^[7]
• International Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Month: February 2012.^[8]

Teams

Season	Skip	Third	Second	Lead	Alternate	Coach	Events
2003–04				Oxana Slesarenko			(9th)
2004–05	Victor Ershov	Andrey Smirnov	Nikolay Melnikov	Oxana Slesarenko	Valeriy Chepilko	Oleg Narinyan	(15th)
2006–07	Nikolay Melnikov	Andrey Smirnov	Valeriy Chepilko	Oxana Slesarenko	Victor Ershov	Oleg Narinyan	(8th)
2007–08	Andrey Smirnov	Nikolay Melnikov		Oxana Slesarenko			(10th)
2010–11	Andrey Smirnov (fourth)	Marat Romanov (skip)			Oxana Slesarenko		(4th)
2011–12	Andrey Smirnov	Marat Romanov	Alexander Shevchenko	Svetlana Pakhomova	Oxana Slesarenko
2012–13	Andrey Smirnov	Marat Romanov	Alexander Shevchenko	Svetlana Pakhomova	Oxana Slesarenko	Anton Batugin	(5th)
2013–14	Andrey Smirnov	Alexander Shevchenko	Svetlana Pakhomova	Marat Romanov	Oxana Slesarenko	Anton Batugin
2014–15	Andrey Smirnov	Marat Romanov	Oxana Slesarenko	Alexander Shevchenko	Svetlana Pakhomova	Anton Batugin
2018–19	Andrey Smirnov	Oxana Slesarenko	Oleg Perminov	Olga Strepetova	Eugeny Pinzhenin	Sergey Shamov, Sophia Yarutina	RWhCC 2019 ^[9]
2019–20	Andrey Smirnov	Oxana Slesarenko	Oleg Perminov	Olga Rashchektaeva	Victor Ershov

External links

• • Profile at International Paralympic Committee site (old version)
• Profile at Russian National Paralympic Committee site
• Video:

Notes and References

1. Other writing: Oksana Slesarenko.
2. https://sportrodnik.ru/ Родник
3. Web site: "Спорт для инвалидов в нашей стране - единственная возможность нормально заработать" . e1.ru - новости Екатеринбурга . April 3, 2014 . ru . July 14, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170113044749/https://www.e1.ru/news/spool/news_id-403478-section_id-147.html . January 13, 2017.
4. Web site: Спортсмены Сборной России по керлингу на колясках – Чемпионы Мира 2012 года . Министерство физической культуры и спорта Свердловской области . March 1, 2012 . ru .
5. http://curlingrussia.com/mama-uralskoj-kerlingistki-vrachi-boyalis-chto-oksana-ne-vyzhivet-a-o-zanyatiyax-sportom-i-rechi-ne-shlo/ Зоя Андреевна Слесаренко: «Врачи боялись, что Оксана не выживет, а о занятиях спортом и речи не шло»
6. http://pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?92237 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 17 марта 2014 года № 144 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
7. Web site: Приказ Министерства спорта РФ от 22 апреля 2013 г. № 45-нг «О присвоении почетного спортивного звания "Заслуженный мастер спорта России"». 22 April 2013. 2. Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation. ru. 24 February 2017.
8. Web site: Russia's Slesarenko Named IPC Athlete of the Month . International Paralympic Committee . March 8, 2012 .
9. Web site: Чемпионат России по кёрлингу на колясках 2019 . Федерация кёрлинга России . August 21, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190821094059/http://curling.ru/results/25461-rus-whellchair-champ-2019 . August 21, 2019 .