What is Oksana Grishuk?
[[File:Grishuk and Platov 1994 Europeans.jpg|thumb|Oksana Grichuk and Evgeny Platov at the 1994 European championships]] '''Oksana Vladimirovna Grishuk''' (born March 17, 1972 in [[Odesa]], [[Ukraine]]) is a [[Russians|Russian]] [[retire]]d [[ice dancing|ice dancer]]. She and her partner, [[Evgeny Platov]], won two [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medals and four world championships. Grishuk began training in skating at the age of four. She moved to [[Moscow]] in 1986, and studied at the [[Sport University of Moscow|Sport University]] from 1988 to 1992. After they won the gold medal in the [[1998 Winter Olympics]] in [[Nagano, Nagano|Nagano]], [[Japan]],<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/02/sports/skating-dancing-on-the-sharp-edge-of-her-skates.html?pagewanted=all | title=Dancing on the Sharp Edge of Her Skates | work=The New York Times | date=2 January 1998 | accessdate = 2012-07-21| last1=Longman | first1=Jere }}</ref> Platov decided to skate as a [[professional]] with a different partner, Maya Usova, so Grishuk began skating professionally alone. ==Amateur competitions== *World Championships: first in 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 *[[Olympic Games|Olympics]]: gold medal in 1994 and 1998 *European Championships: first place in 1996, 1997, and 1998 ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commons cat}} * [http://www.pashagrishuk.org The largest fansite about Oksana Grishuk, AKA Pasha] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200107023604/http://www.pashagrishuk.org/ |date=2020-01-07 }} * [http://www.pasha-grishuk.de Oksana Grishuk's official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070410082226/http://www.pasha-grishuk.de/ |date=2007-04-10 }} * [http://members.tripod.com/~usova-platov1/index.html Platov and Usova site] {{DEFAULTSORT:Grishuk, Oksana}} [[Category:1972 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Russia]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Odesa]] [[Category:Russian figure skaters]]