Oxana Guseva is a

Paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

swimmer from

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competing mainly in category S7 events.

Career

Oxana competed in both the 2004 and

2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was f ...

winning a solitary silver medal. It was in 2004 she won that medal in the 400m freestyle behind Australia's Chantel Wolfenden who swam a new games record, she also finished sixth in the 100m freestyle, eighth in the 50m butterfly, fourth in the 200m individual medley but failed to make the final of the 100m freestyle and was part of the Russian team that finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m medley just 0.12 seconds behind the bronze medal-winning Australian team. At the 2008 games she again swam in the 400m freestyle but this time could only manage sixth, she also finished eighth in the 100m freestyle, eighth in the 50m butterfly and sixth in the individual medley.

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* Paralympic swimmers of Russia Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for Russia Russian female butterfly swimmers Russian female freestyle swimmers Russian female medley swimmers Living people Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics S7-classified Paralympic swimmers Year of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships Paralympic medalists in swimming 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-Paralympic-medalist-stub