Oxana Slesarenko
Oxana Vladimirovna Slesarenko is a Russian wheelchair curler.
Career
She is a member of the local sports club "Rodnik", where she started wheelchair curling in 2003. 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.
Awards
- Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class – 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 Sochi
- Merited Master of Sports of Russia
- International Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Month: February 2012.