Oksana Slivenko
Oksana Nikolaevna Sliwenko, Russian Оксана Николаевна Сливенко, also Oxana Sliwenko ( born December 20, 1986 in Chekhov ) is a Russian weightlifter.
Life
Her parents, Nikolai Pavlovich Sliwenko and his wife Vera Ivanovna, they sent at the age of four years for gymnastics. However, with ten years Oksana recognized that she was not suitable to continue this sport. Therefore, they tried to develop sports in karate and swimming, with a great emphasis was placed on an intensive weight training. At twelve, she began in 1998, against the will of their parents, with the weight lifting. There she was discovered and trained by Valerie Tarenenko. Sliwenko is since 2000 member of the Russian national team, trained since then under Vladimir Safonov, 2005 won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in the weight class up to 63 kg and in 2006 Junior World Champion in the category up to 69 kg.
For women, the 69 kg class, she was at the 2006 at the World Championships in the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo World Champion and placed it with 263 kg ( 123/140 kg) a world record; the scoring performance in the snatch is still (as of April 2009) World Junior record. The 164 -centimeter-tall athlete has been Russian champion of the sport in 2006. She started with three gold medals also became European champion, the 69 - kg class in Strasbourg in 2007, she defended in Chiang Mai, Thailand, their World Champion title and thereby improved the duel world record in the class up to 69 kg to 276 kg. This world record has been improved at the Summer Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing by the Chinese Liu Chunhong by 10 kg. Oksana Sliwenko was in Beijing and at the start, but met on a Liu Chunhong, who was in fantastic shape while she was not at her best and only 255 kg ( 115-140 ) reached in a duel, but still enough for the silver medal.
At the World Weightlifting Championships 2011 in Paris, she was in the snatch with 118 kg, and jerk with 148 kg and 266 kg in single combat with before the same power, but 300 g heavier Chinese Xiang Yanmei World Champion.
European champion in single combat was Oksana Sliwenko been six times (as of 2013), namely in 2007 in Strasbourg with 257 kg, 2009 in Bucharest with 255 kg, 2010 in Minsk with 262 kg, 2011 in Kazan with 265 kg, 2012 in Antalya with 258 kg and 2013 in Tirana 257 kg.
These successes in battle many medals are added, which she won at World and European Championships in the individual disciplines cracking and crashing.
A big disappointment for Oksana Sliwenko there were in 2012 because they could not participate this year at the Olympic Games in London and realize her dream of winning an Olympic gold medal because of an injury.
The Moscow sports teacher student enjoys reading and listening to music in her spare time. For Oksana Sliwenko the weight lifting is life philosophy. Perspective they want to establish the male-dominated weightlifting scene and women.
International success
WM EM - Single Medals
- World Championship gold medals: 2006/Reißen, 2006/Stoßen; 2007/Stoßen; 2010/Reißen, 2010/Stoßen
- World Championship silver medals: 2007/Reißen; 2009/Reißen, 2009/Stoßen
- European gold medals: 2007/Reißen, 2007/Stoßen; 2009/Reißen, 2009/Stoßen; 2010/Reißen, 2010/Stoßen; 2011/Reißen, 2011/Stoßen; 2012/Reißen, 2012/Stoßen; 2013/Stoßen
- EM- Silver medals: 2013/Reißen
Notes
- All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =