Oksana Grischuk is a figure skater who, speaking in pair skating with Evgeny Platov, twice became an Olympic champion. So far, not a single Russian couple has been able to repeat such a success on the ice. So, Oksana Grischuk. The biography of this athlete is ups and downs, victories and defeats, happiness and despair ...
Way to success
The future figure skating star was born in 1972. Her mother Lyudmila Rokhbek was an engineer-economist, and father Vladimir Grischuk was a football player. Unfortunately, the happy family broke up. A year after the birth of the daughter, the father abandoned them.
Oksana Grischuk first appeared on the ice when she was only four years old. Her mother dreamed that her daughter was a skater, so she seriously approached the preparation of her daughter. The first coach of Oksana was Valentina Kasyanova, in whom the girl trained as a loner. The start to the beginning of a sports career was an invitation to Leonid Brezhnev's anniversary evening. Secretary General noted the talent of a ten-year-old skater. So, Oksana was assigned to the Dynamo Moscow school to continue her career.
At the age of twelve, Oksana moved to the sports dance group to coach Natalya Linichuk. The first partner Grischuk was Alexander Chichkov. Together with Sasha, they won more than one award among juniors. So, in 1988, the couple won the youth world championship. However, during the tournament, Alexander was injured and could not continue his career. In the summer of 1989, the couple broke up. So Oksana Grischuk received a new partner - Evgeny Platova.
Lucky duet
It was Evgeny Platov who became for Oksana the partner with whom she achieved her highest awards and sports achievements.
So, the pair rolled so fast that three months after the start of training, they won a bronze medal at the USSR Championship. However, this was only the beginning. They were not going to give in and dreamed of the highest step of the pedestal. And in 1991 they did it - Oksana Grischuk and Evgeny Platov won their first gold in the national championship. The next goal was Olympic gold.
At their first Olympics - 1992 - Oksana and Eugene took fourth place. Then there were bronze medals in the world and European championships. At this time, the couple trained with Karponosov and Linichuk. Two years of continuous preparation, as well as self-confidence and an unwavering will to win, did their job: at the 1994 games in Lillehammer, Platov and Grischuk became champions!
And in 1998 in Nagano, they repeated their success, becoming two-time Olympic champions. For this achievement, they even hit the Guinness Book of Records. After all, no one had done anything like this before, and even today could not repeat it.
Crazy Love
However, despite the success and high sports level that Oksana Grischuk reached, her personal life did not work out. Due to constant training, she even did not have time for anything. But love always comes unexpectedly ...
And her chosen one was Alexander Zhulin - her colleague and rival at the same time. He, like Grischuk herself, danced on ice with his partner Maya Usova. And dreamed of Olympic gold. The feelings that Oksana had for Alexander Zhulin were like madness. She wanted to be with him constantly. But he was married, they met secretly. However, their novel was still known to coaches, colleagues ...
According to Oksana herself, Zhulin told her that he would definitely divorce his wife, with whom she lives exclusively for the sake of sports image and the press. And he promised the girl that he would announce to everyone about the divorce, as well as about the relations that exist between them, only after Oksana quit the sport. And the skater in love hung skates on a nail. This happened shortly before the Olympics. Unfortunately, later Oksana Grischuk found out that her lover preferred another - a very young figure skater Tanya Navka. The offended and offended girl returned to sports again. And together with Zhenya Platov she won gold, while Zhulin and her partner became only the second.
Prince of Monaco and skater Oksana Grischuk
Photos of this couple often appeared in print. Grischuk herself admitted that at first she considered Prince Albert only a friend, but he showed persistence, and she lost.
They met in the Olympic village in Nagano. Prince of Monaco took part in the bobsled race. At first they were just friends, but in 2000, Oksana and Albert started a serious romance. The couple all the time appeared together at the royal receptions in Monaco, and on the yacht of Bill Gates, and at various social events. Albert even introduced Oksana to his father, King of Monaco. However, this affair did not end with a wedding. During a tour of America, Oksana met her new love - Jeff, fitness instructor.
Daughter
Oksana and Jeff began to live together. And in the spring of 2002, Grischuk found out that she was pregnant. However, the lovers were in no hurry to register their relationship. Oksana considers her little daughter a miracle. And not in vain. A child was born, and this is despite the fact that the woman had an abortion!
Oksana Grischuk named her daughter Skyler Grace. The name Skyler means “heavenly”, and the name Grace, meaning “grace”, was given to the girl in honor of the mother of Prince of Monaco, actress Grace Kelly. A few months after the birth of his daughter, Jeff left Oksana and disappeared in an unknown direction.
Life after sports
After leaving sports Oksana Grischuk founded the Figure Skating Academy, where she trains young athletes.
In 2006, she took part in the First Channel show "Dancing on Ice", where her partner was Peter Krasilov. Their duet took first place.
In 2007, Oksana was invited to participate in the continuation of "Ice Dancing." And the skater gave her consent. This time, her partner was Peter Dranga. And again Oksana was in the favorites - third place.
Oksana Grischuk and her daughter live in California. A woman trains young skaters and dreams that she will meet such a man with whom she will be happy.