Oxana Vladimirovna Slesarenko (russian: Окса́на Влади́мировна Слесаре́нко; born April 27, 1970, in Sverdlovsk, USSR) is a Russian

wheelchair curler Wheelchair curling is an adaptation of curling for athletes with a disability affecting their lower limbs or gait. Wheelchair curling is governed by the World Curling Federation, and is one of the sports in the Paralympic Games, Winter Paralympic ...

Career

She is a member of the local sports club "Rodnik" ( Yekaterinburg), where she started wheelchair curling in 2003. It was the first wheelchair curling team in Russia. She was a participant of the

2014 Winter Paralympic games The 2014 Winter Paralympics (russian: Зимние Паралимпийские игры 2014, Zimniye Paralimpiyskiye igry 2014), the 11th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, were an ...

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.

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'' * Merited Master of Sports of Russia (2013) *

International Paralympic Committee The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; german: Internationales Paralympisches Komitee) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and fun ...

Athlete of the Month: February 2012.

Teams

References

External links

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Profile at International Paralympic Committee site (old version)

Profile at Russian National Paralympic Committee site
*Video: {{DEFAULTSORT:Slesarenko, Oxana Living people 1970 births Sportspeople from Yekaterinburg Russian female curlers Russian wheelchair curlers Paralympic medalists in wheelchair curling Paralympic silver medalists for Russia Wheelchair curlers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics Paralympic wheelchair curlers for Russia World wheelchair curling champions Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class 21st-century Russian women