Oxana Vladimirovna SlesarenkoOther writing: Oksana Slesarenko. (; born 27 April 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.Родник It was the first wheelchair curling team in Russia.
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.Зоя Андреевна Слесаренко: «Врачи боялись, что Оксана не выживет, а о занятиях спортом и речи не шло»
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 SochiУказ Президента Российской Федерации от 17 марта 2014 года № 144 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации» Merited Master of Sports of Russia (2013) International Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Month: February 2012.
Teams Season Skip Third Second Lead Alternate Coach Events 2003–04 Victor Ershov Valeriy Chepilko Andrey Smirnov Oxana Slesarenko Nikolay Melnikov Oleg Narinyan (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 Marat Romanov Oxana Slesarenko Oleg Makarov Efim Zhidelev (10th) 2010–11 Andrey Smirnov (fourth) Marat Romanov (skip) Alexander Shevchenko Svetlana Pakhomova Oxana Slesarenko Vladimir Shevchenko,Anton Batugin (4th) 2011–12 Andrey Smirnov Marat Romanov Alexander Shevchenko Svetlana Pakhomova Oxana Slesarenko Margarita Nesterova 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 WPG 2014 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 2019–20 Andrey Smirnov Oxana Slesarenko Oleg Perminov Olga Rashchektaeva Victor Ershov RWhCC 2020
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External links
Profile at International Paralympic Committee site (old version) Profile at Russian National Paralympic Committee site Video: