Oxana Slesarenko

Oxana Vladimirovna Slesarenko (Окса́на Влади́мировна Слесаре́нко; born April 27, 1970, in Sverdlovsk, USSR) is a Russian wheelchair curler.

Career
She is a member of the local sports club "Rodnik" (Yekaterinburg), 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 (17 March 2014) – 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 (2013)
 * International Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Month: February 2012.