Oksana Grishuk
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Oksana (Pasha) Gritschuk (born March 17, 1972 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a Russian figure skater. She began training in skating at the age of four. Gritschuk 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 gone platinum, Oksana Baiul. Added to this notoriety was the leaking of the fact that Grichuk 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 Grichuk on the ice while Usova teamed up with Platov.
Amateur competitions
- World Championships: first in 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997
- Olympics: firts in 1994 and 1998
- European Championships: first place in 1996, 1997, and 1998
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