Oxana Vladimirovna Grishchuk

Oxana Grishchuk
Full name	Oxana Vladimirovna Grishchuk
nation	Soviet Union United Team Russia
birthday	March 17, 1972
place of birth	Odessa, Soviet Union
size	164 cm
Weight	50 kg
Career
discipline	Ice dance
Partner	Yevgeny Platov
Former partner	Alexander Chichkov
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 3 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Lillehammer 1994 Ice dance gold Nagano 1998 Ice dance  World figure skating championships bronze Oakland 1992 Ice dance silver Prague 1993 Ice dance gold Chiba 1994 Ice dance gold Birmingham 1995 Ice dance gold Edmonton 1996 Ice dance gold Lausanne 1997 Ice dance  European figure skating championships bronze Lausanne 1992 Ice dance silver Helsinki 1993 Ice dance silver Copenhagen 1994 Ice dance gold Sofia 1996 Ice dance gold Paris 1997 Ice dance gold Milan 1998 Ice dance

Oxana Vladimirovna Grishchuk ( Russian Оксана Владимировна Грищук , also Pascha Grishchuk , born March 17, 1972 in Odessa , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian figure skater who competed in ice dancing for the Soviet Union, the United Team and Russia .

career

Oxana Grishchuk started figure skating in Odessa at the age of four. Her father, Vladimir Grishchuk, was a football player. Her mother, Ljudmila Rohbeck, has a degree in business administration. The parents separated when Oxana Grishchuk was four years old. Her first trainer was Valentina Kasyanova. When she was ten, she came to Moscow to join the Dynamo Moscow sports club. In Moscow she was first trained by Jelena Alexandrowa. With twelve years Grishchuk switched from single run to ice dancing . Her first ice dance partner was Alexander Tschitschkow . At his side she was Junior World Champion in 1988 . In 1989 he had to end his career for health reasons.

In 1989 Natalia Dubowa brought her together with Yevgeny Platov . Just three months later, they finished third on the podium at the Soviet championships . They finished their joint debut at World and European Championships in 1990 in fifth place.

In 1992 Grishchuk and Platov went for the first time as Soviet champions. They won their first bronze medals at these tournaments at both the European and World Championships . They finished their debut at the Olympic Games in Albertville in fourth place.

In the autumn of 1992 Natalja Linitschuk and Gennady Karponosov were new coaches from Grishchuk and Platov. As the reigning Russian champions , the ice dance couple became vice-European and vice-world champions in 1993 .

In 1994 they were again vice European champions . At the Olympic Games in Lillehammer , Grishchuk and Platov won the gold medal. They defeated the reamateurized Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean , who were also reigning European champions, and the then reigning world champions Maja Ussowa and Alexander Schulin . In Chiba , Japan , Grishchuk and Platow became world champions for the first time a little later .

Grishchuk and Platov missed much of the 1994/95 season, including the European Championship, due to injury. At the World Cup in Birmingham , however, they were able to compete again and defended their world championship title.

In 1996, Grishchuk and Platov became European champions for the first time in Sofia . In Edmonton they became world champions again. Then Tatyana Tarasova became her new trainer. They missed the first half of the 1996/97 season but returned in time to defend their European Championship title in Paris in 1997 . In Lausanne they became world champions for the fourth time in a row.

1998 won Grishchuk and Platow in Milan for the third time in a row at the European Championships. At the Olympic Games in Nagano they defended their title and were again Olympic champions. Then they ended their competitive career.

In the period from 1994 to 1998, Grishchuk and Platov won 20 competitions in a row. They are the only pair of ice dancers to have won gold twice at the Olympics. Grishchuk and Platov combined speed and demanding elements and demonstrated their mastery of numerous different dance styles.

After their competitive career, Grishchuk and Platow ran together in various shows. Then they decided to swap partners with their former rivals Maja Ussowa and Alexander Schulin . Nine years after the end of their careers, Platow and Oxana "Pascha" Grishchuk appeared together again for the first time at the annual Christmas show on Red Square in Moscow. In 2008 they met in Nagano to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their Olympic victory.

Oxana Grishchuk studied art at Moscow University and is a choreographer . She speaks Russian, English, German and Italian.

Oxana Grishchuk became a mother on August 19, 2002. Her daughter is called Skyler Grace. The child's father is her significant other, Jeff Carrillo. The family lives in Los Angeles , California . Grishchuk now also works as a trainer.

Results

Ice dance

(with Yevgeny Platov )

Competition / year	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
winter Olympics			4th		1.				1.
World championships	5.	4th	3.	2.	1.	1.	1.	1.
European championships	5.	5.	3.	2.	2.		1.	1.	1.
Soviet championships	3.	2.	1.
Russian championships				1.			1.

(with Alexander Tschitschkow )

Competition / year	1987	1988
Junior World Championships	2.	1.
Soviet championships		1.

Web links

• Oxana Vladimirovna Grishchuk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Personal web presence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jere Longman: SKATING; Dancing on the Sharp Edge of Her Skates . In: The New York Times , January 2, 1998. Retrieved May 22, 2009. 
2. ↑ Olympic Insider . In: TIME , February 16, 1998. Retrieved May 22, 2009. 
3. ↑ Lifeskate.com, January 2, 2009 ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.