From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oksana Grishuk
Oksana Grishuk
Oksana Grishuk
World Championships
Gold 1997 Lausanne Ice dancing
Gold 1996 Edmonton Ice dancing
Gold 1995 Birmingham Ice dancing
Gold 1994 Chiba Ice dancing
Silver 1993 Prague Ice dancing
Bronze 1992 Oakland Ice dancing
European Championships
Gold 1998 Milan Ice dancing
Gold 1997 Paris Ice dancing
Grishuk and Platov at the 1994 European Championships Gold 1996 Sofia Ice dancing
Personal information Silver 1994 Copenhagen Ice dancing
Full name Oksana Vladimirovna Silver 1993 Helsinki Ice dancing
Grishuk
Bronze 1992 Lausanne Ice dancing
Alternative names Oksana Grishchuk/
Grischuk Grand Prix Final
Pasha Grishuk
Gold 1997-1998 Munich Ice dancing
Former country(ies) Russia Gold 1995-1996 Paris Ice dancing
represented
Soviet Union
Competitor for Soviet Union
Born March 17, 1971
(1971-03-17) World Junior Championships
Odessa
Gold 1988 Brisbane Ice dancing
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Silver 1987 Kitchener Ice dancing
Former partner Evgeny Platov
Alexandr Chichkov
Olympic medal record
Former coach Tatiana Tarasova
Natalia Linichuk Competitor for Russia
Gennadi Karponosov
Natalia Dubova Figure skating
Skating club Sportsclub Moskva Gold 1994 Lillehammer Ice dancing
Retired March 1998 Gold 1998 Nagano Ice dancing
Medal record
Oksana (Pasha) Vladimirovna Grishuk (Russian: Оксана
Figure skating (Паша) Владимировна Грищук; born March 17, 1972 in
Ice dancing Odessa, USSR) is a Russian ice dancer. She is best known
for her partnership with Evgeny Platov from 1989–1998.
Competitor for Russia With Platov, she is a two-time Olympic champion (1994,
Olympic Games 1998), four-time World champion (1994–1997), and three-
time European champion (1996–1998). With previous
Gold 1998 Nagano Ice dancing partner Alexandr Chichkov, she is the 1988 World Junior
Gold 1994 Lillehammer Ice dancing champion.
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Career Grishuk and Platov won 20 consecutive competitions
from 1994 to 1998.[1] They were entered in the Guinness
Grishuk began skating at the age of four. Her father aban- Book of World Records in 1998 for becoming the only
doned the family when she was a child.[1] She moved team in the history of ice dancing to win Olympic gold
to Moscow in 1981 and began training under Natalia twice. Grishuk and Platov combined speed and difficult
Linichuk and Gennadi Karponossov in 1984. She initially elements, and displayed their mastery of numerous
competed with Alexandr Chichkov for the Soviet Union. styles of dance.[1][6] On their partnership, Platov said in
In 1987, they won the silver medal at the World Junior 1998: "It’s like being a husband and a wife. Sometimes,
Championships. The following year, they won gold at the you fight. Sometimes, you walk away and calm down. I
event as well as the Soviet Championships. They compet- met her a long time ago, and I still remember her as a lit-
ed one more season and won bronze at the Grand Prix tle girl on the ice. She was so little. So active. Usually, lit-
International de Paris (now known as Trophée Eric Bom- tle girls are boring. But that girl. Oh, there was a fire on
pard). He retired in summer 1989 due to injury. ice."[4] He also said: "It’s hard to change her mind. She
Grishuk was invited to join Natalia Dubova’s group fights every step. But it works out. That’s why she is so
where she was partnered with Evgeny Platov. They good."[1]
trained in Moscow.[2] Three months later, in December Grishuk and Platov retired from competition and did
1989, they won the bronze medal at the Soviet Cham- not compete at the 1998 World Championships. They
pionships. They were fifth in their World Championship skated together in shows until the summer of 1998. Pla-
debut in 1990. Their first European and World medals, tov then decided to skate with their former rival Maya
both bronze, came at the 1992 European Championships Usova. Grishuk teamed up with Alexander Zhulin with
and 1992 World Championships. whom she skated one year.
Due to tensions between Grishuk and Maya Usova, In 1994, Russian President Boris Yeltsin awarded Gr-
Dubova allegedly expelled Grishuk from her group in ishuk with a government medal of Friendship for highest
mid-1992,[2] although Grishuk said she chose to leave.[1] achievement in sport. In 1998, Yeltsin awarded Grishuk
Dubova found a new partner for Platov while Grishuk with a government medal of Labor also for highest
briefly searched for a new partner in Germany before achievement in sport.
returning to Moscow and her previous coach, Natalia In 2006, Grishuk was a celebrity judge on the WE tv
Linichuk.[2] Platov decided not to follow Dubova and re- series Skating’s Next Star, created and produced by Major
teamed with Grishuk in the fall of 1992.[2] League Figure Skating and hosted by Kristi Yamaguchi.
During the 1992–93 season, Grishuk and Platov won Also in 2006, Grishuk won Dance on Ice, a Russian celebrity
European and World silver medals. In 1993–94, they won skating show in Moscow, and was third in 2007. Grishuk
silver at the European Championships. They won their and Platov reunited in February 2008 in Nagano, Japan
first Olympic title at the 1994 Olympics.[3] They ended for their ten-year anniversary of winning the 1998
the season with their first World title at the 1994 World Olympic gold medal.[7]
Championships. They then left Russia and moved with
Linichuk to Newark, Delaware for better training and liv-
ing conditions.[1]
Personal life
Grishuk and Platov missed most of 1994–95 due to in- Grishuk studied at the Sport University of Moscow from
jury but returned to win the 1995 World Championships. 1988 to 1992. She has a daughter, Skyler Grace.
They had a full season in 1995–96 and won another set of
European and World titles.
In 1996, Grishuk and Platov split from Linichuk and
Programs
moved to Tatiana Tarasova in Marlborough, Massachu- (with Platov)
setts.[1] Injury kept them out of competition in the first (with Zhulin)
half of the 1996–97 season but they returned to win their
second European and fourth World title. In September
1997, she changed her first name to Pasha after being re-
Results
peatedly confused with Oksana Baiul,[1] but later went (with Platov)
back to Oksana. In 1997–98, Grishuk and Platov won their (with Chichkov)
third European Championships. At the event, they were
slashed in a practice collision with Anjelika Krylova and Notes
Oleg Ovsiannikov but were not seriously hurt and both
teams said it was an accident.[4] Grishuk and Platov com- [1] ^ Longman, Jere (January 2, 1998). "SKATING;
peted at their third Olympics in 1998 in Nagano, where Dancing on the Sharp Edge of Her Skates". The New
they became the first ice dancers to repeat as gold medal- York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/02/
ists.[1][5]
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oksana Grishuk
Season Original dance Free dance Exhibition
1997–1998 • Jailhouse Rock • Memorial Requiem • Frozen
by Elvis Presley by Michael Nyman by Madonna
• You’ll See
by Madonna
• Foxy Lady
by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
1996–1997 • Libertango • The Feeling Begins • You’ll See
by Ástor Piazzolla by Peter Gabriel by Madonna
1995–1996 • España Cañí • Muchachita • I Will Always Love You
by Perez Prado by Whitney Houston
• Mambo Jambo
(a.k.a. Que Rico El Mambo)
by Perez Prado
• Bogota
by Gil Ventura
1994–1995 • Girls Girls Girls • Steppin’ Out • Adagio in G minor
by Remo Giazotto, Tomaso Albinoni
1993–1994 • Historia de um Amor • Rock Around the Clock • Rock Around the Clock
(vocal version)
1992–1993 • Aquarell • St. James Infirmary Blues • Aquarell
• Viennese Waltz
1991–1992 • Schön Rosmarin
• Liebesleid
by Fritz Kreisler
performed by Kryzler & Kompany
1990–1991 • Tarantella
• ’O Sole Mio
• Funiculì, Funiculà
1989–1990 • Moliendo Café • Sirtaki from Zorba the Greek
by Hugo Blanco by Mikis Theodorakis
Season Programs
1998–1999 • Un-Break My Heart
by Toni Braxton
• Smooth Operator
by Sade
• Enigma
sports/skating-dancing-on-the-sharp-edge-of-her- the original on December 24, 2011.
skates.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2009-05-22. http://articles.latimes.com/1994-02-22/sports/
[2] ^ Hersh, Phil (February 22, 1994). "Love Triangle sp-25648_1_winter-olympic-ice-dancing-
(plus 1) Tops Torvill And Dean". The Chicago competition.
Tribune. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/ [4] ^ Glauber, Bill (February 12, 1998). "Grishuk, fire on
1994-02-22/sports/9402220310_1_bronze- and off ice, dances to own beat in Games; Never a
medalists-jayne-torvill-zhulin-usova. Retrieved dull moment in Russian’s career as she, Platov
September 9, 2011. pursue gold". Baltimore Sun. Archived from the
[3] Harvey, Randy (February 22, 1994). "’94 WINTER original on December 24, 2011.
LILLEHAMMER OLYMPICS : Torvill and Dean Must http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-02-12/
Face Music as Russians Win : Ice dancing: British sports/1998043170_1_pasha-grishuk-oksana-
routine doesn’t go over with judges. Gritschuk and grishuk-oksana-baiul.
Platov get gold.". Los Angeles Times. Archived from
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Event 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98
Winter Olympic Games 4th 1st 1st
World Championships 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st
European Championships 5th 5th 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 1st
Russian Championships 1st 1st
Soviet Championships 3rd 2nd 1st
Grand Prix Final 1st 1st
Skate America 1st
Trophée Eric Bompard 1st 1st
NHK Trophy 2nd 2nd 1st 1st
Event 1986–1987 1987–1988 1988–1989
World Junior Championship 2nd 1st
Soviet Championships 1st
Trophée Eric Bompard 3rd
[5] Frey, Jennifer (February 16, 1998). "Basic Instinct Short description Figure skater
for the Gold, and an Oscar". Washington Post.
Date of birth March 17, 1972
Archived from the original on December 24, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/ Place of birth Odessa
longterm/olympics1998/sport/figskate/articles/ Date of death
dance15.htm. Place of death
[6] "Olympic Insider". TIME. February 16, 1998.
Archived from the original on January 29, 2011.
http://web.archive.org/web/20110129154626/
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/
0,9171,987831,00.html.
[7] Lifeskate.com, January 2, 2009
References
• World Junior Figure Skating Championships: ISU
Results: DancePDF (11.0 KB)
• Sports-reference: Pasha Grishchuk
• "Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov". IceNetwork.com.
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/
detail.jsp?id=39172&mode=P.
External links
• Oksana Grishuk’s official website
• "Evgeny Platov’s Olympics"
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• Olympic gold medalists for Russia
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