Biography Oksana Grishchuk

The latest news biography in the middle of the x Oksana Grishchuk was among the brightest athletes in the world, paired with Evgeny Platov for the first time in history became a two -time Olympic champion in ice dancing. Legends went about the eccentric nature of Oksana and unsurpassed performance in the world of figure skating. Oksana now lives and works in the USA.

Childhood and youth Oksana Vladimirovna Grishchuk was born on March 17 in Odessa. Soon after the birth of the girl, her parents divorced. Father, football player Vladimir Grishchuk, left the family. The future champion with mom and grandmother grew. Mother took four -year -old Oksana to the children's section of figure skating to the coach Valentina Kasyanova.

She had a girl for five years and began to show good results. This pushed her mother to move to Moscow, it seemed to her that in the capital of the USSR, her daughter had more opportunities for development. With Go Oksana trained like a loneliness. In adolescence, she came to the famous coaching pair - Natalya Linichuk and Gennady Karponosova. In her youth, Grishchuk rode paired with Alexander Chichkov.

Coaches, uniting pupils, quickly began to observe the success of the junior duo. For Oksana, this was the reason to change his partner, and at the same time a coach. The athlete went into the team of Natalia Dubova competing with Linichuk. Natalya Vladimirovna for a long time could not forgive the pupil, regarding the act as a betrayal. Dubova, meanwhile, put Oksana in a pair with a promising dancer Evgeny Platov, who had a riding with Larisa Fedorinova.

It was in a duet with a young man who also turned out to be Odessa, Grischuk achieved all kinds of heights in sports. The skater Oksana Grishchuk, despite the fact that the partners for a long time rubbed each other in terms of technology, speed and other aspects of skiing, after three months they showed a stunning result. In December, the skaters became the bronze medalists of the USSR championship, and in the year they won gold at the last championship of the Soviet Union in Figure Skating in history.

Then the athletes took fourth place. At the European and world championships of the same year, the results were better - the duet won bronze medals. In the same event, coach Natalya Dubova, according to Oksana, provoked her departure. In the fall of Go, the athlete returned to her former mentor Natalya Linichuk. She, having forgiven the insult, took her into the team, putting her in a pair of the novice skater Peter Chernyshev.

The new partner of Platov was the skater Tatyana Navka. With the whole team, Dubova, Eugene, flew to long fees to the American lake-sales. However, he soon realized: only with Oksana he will be able to come to the long -awaited gold. Getting in a couple already under the leadership, Linichuk, Grishchuk and Platov plunged into work. And the results were not long in coming: in the year Oksana and Eugene became the triumphs of the Olympics in Lillehammer, rolling around an arbitrary program with the highest points.

It is noteworthy that the primacy of the duet pulled out of the hands of his longtime rivals - Alexander Zhulin and Maya Usova. Following the Olympic success was followed by four gold medals of Odessa athletes at the world championships. In the year, a conflict flared up between Oksana and Natalya Vladimirovna: the athlete accused the coach of insufficient attention to their pair with Eugene.

Grishchuk seemed that Linichuk was doing a great job with their competitors - Angelica Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov. On the basis of disagreements, Grishchuk and Platov went to Tatyana Tarasova. Tatyana Anatolyevna, although she prepared a couple for the second Olympic triumph, then in the memoirs she admitted what it cost her. So she brought me. Grishchuk was huddled and rude, and then to my door suddenly brought bouquets of flowers, ”the mentor wrote in the book“ Beauty and the Beast ”.

Before training, Tarasova took a strong sedative, so as not to respond to the tantrums and whims of Oksana. One way or another, at the Olympics in Nagano Grishchuk and Platov became gold medalists, for a long time setting the record of the first two -time Olympic champions in ice dancing. Their number of an arbitrary program for the composition "Memorial" conquered the hearts of the audience.

By the way, the second on the pedestal was then the pupils of Linichuk - Angelica Krylova and Oleg Ovsyannikov. At this time, the athlete took the pseudonym Pasha. The fact is that the skater was often confused with her star colleague - a loner of Oksana Bayul. The ambitious champion touched this greatly, in the end she renamed herself in honor of her grandmother. After some time, Grishchuk and Alexander Zhulin announced the continuation of his career in professional sports and stood in a couple.

Then Oksana did not perform solo for long, and with the beginning of the new millennium, she decided to start a new life by moving to the United States. After the end of his career, the new page in the life of the skater was also connected with sports. In America, Grishchuk opened the Academy of figure skating, deciding to transfer skills to the younger generation. The athlete kept warm feelings to her homeland, emphasizing that her daughter’s career was connected with Russia.Oksana dreamed of taking the post of president of the Figure Skating Federation of the Russian Federation, but this could not come true.

Grishchuk, remaining the famous figure skiing in the world, continued to attract the attention of the press. At the beginning of the year, she visited Germany, where she held a series of master classes. Then Oksana gave an interview to the Russian sports publication, talking about how the scale of the Olympic competitions from the inside is felt, and that she continues to root for Russian athletes in large tournaments.

The star of sports about Russia never forgot the television. In M Grishchuk, she participated in the show "Dancing on the ice" and, paired with actor Peter Krasilov, took first place. A year later, in the same project, their result with musician Peter Drango became the third. Fans expected to see Oksana in the "Ice Age", but at the last moment the negotiations were interrupted.

This was immediately refuted by Ilya Averbukh. The coach said that it was difficult to participate in Grishchuk in the program with ensuring its arrival from the States and residence in Russia. Personal life personal life of the Olympic champion aroused interest in the public because of her bold acts. There were many scandalous and vivid moments in the biography of an attractive athlete.

The first, of course, belongs to an affair with the then -married skater Alexander Zhulin. Oksana admitted in an interview that she was ready to fulfill any desire of her lover, but he did not appreciate her feelings and betrayed her. The aristocrat, which is not indifferent to spectacular athletes, personally approached to get acquainted with the skater he liked at the Olympics in Nagano.

The acquaintance resulted in several meetings and walks. Even joint photos of Prince Albert and the Olympic champion leaked into the press. However, the couple soon broke up. In the beginning of the X, having left for America, the champion began to meet with a fitness instructor named Jeff. From the actual husband, Grishchuk gave birth to the only daughter Skyler. Soon after, the couple broke up, but Skyler's parents remained in friendly relations for the sake of their daughter.

Today, the matured heiress makes a model career and is engaged in large tennis. The scandal in the year Oksana gave a scandalous interview in which she again raised the topic of a long -standing conflict with Tatyana Tarasova. The skater admitted that she could not come to terms with a lie about herself, set forth in the book of the coach "Beauty and the Beast." Tired of convincing the audience that the facts described by Tarasova are very embellished and unreliable, Grishchuk, without waiting for an official apology from the lady respected by everyone, decided to tell how her cooperation with Tatyana Anatolyevna passed.

According to the champion, before the Olympic Games of the year, the coach convinced her to move from Dynamo to the trade union society. At the same time, she assured that in case of victory, Grishchuk would give not only an apartment, but also a car, a summer cottage. After the couple’s refusal, Tatyana Anatolyevna went on a trick.

Eugene, she “secretly” said that Grishchuk was offered shooting in Hollywood, so soon the athlete would leave the duet. Platov believed her began to dance with Maya Usova, by irony of the fate of his ex -wife Zhulin. Grishchuk learned about this from Times journalist. This betrayal ruined the relationship between former champions for a long time. Over time, they made up. In an interview, Oksana noted that she might make a mistake without collecting press conferences to tell the truth.

In addition, the champion could fail the coach, accusing him of slander, but did not do this by virtue of a non -conflict nature. Oksana Grishchuk is now Grishchuk less often reminds the public about himself than the eminent colleagues of her generation, because of living in the United States. However, she remains a professional in sports. Oksana gives master classes in figure skating, supports her daughter in her career, and also engages in fitness with different age groups.

In the year, the skater conducted a series of wellness classes for people over 60 years old. In an interview, the athlete admitted that she managed to win at the Olympics of the year because of the desire to avenge Alexander Zhulin. He promised to announce their engagement in exchange for Oksana's departure from figure skating, but, having left for the States, he spun an affair with Tatyana Navka.

At the World Championships in the year, due to injury, the legs of the Plates could not fulfill the support of the partner. But the couple skilled it so masterfully that the judges did not notice the mistakes. For the production of the Tango Olympic issue, Natalya Linichuk invited professional dancers from Argentina in the year.