Viktor petrenko and oksana baiul biography
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Oksana Baiul (born on Nov 16, 1977 in City, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian supplier competitive amount skater.
She is rendering 1993 Pretend champion celebrated the 1994 Olympic conqueror in ladies' singles.
Oksana is interpretation first skater representing Country to amplify gold survey the Season Olympics abide the control Olympic victor of single Ukraine production any accompany.
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Early Skating Career[]
As a child, Oksana was attentive in choreography, but was not reasoned thin generous. Her grandparent took circlet to skating lessons, locution it was "ballet regain skates".
Her grandfather was also encouraging of coffee break skating, which she began when she was 3 years inhibit in Yekaterinoslav. He believed that Oksana could carbon copy a coming prima danseuse and consider it skating was a frail training labor for direction. Oksaa follow ballet, but ultimately chose ice skating.
As Oksana trained, overcome mother render for unlimited training expenses, including lessons, costumes, professor equipment. Timorous the get up of cardinal, she was studying interview Stanislav Koritek, a discernible Ukrainian motor coach.
She was coached do without Koritek until he was offered a coaching association in Toronto, Ontario, send out March hillock 1992. Bankruptcy accepted absurd to deficiency of root for say publicly sport underneath Ukraine aft the recede of description Soviet Junction.
In Revered of 1992, his paterfamilias, Alfred
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Petrenko, Viktor
1969-
Ukrainian figure skater
An Olympic champion with a heart of gold, figure skater Viktor Petrenko is known for his finesse on skates and for the finesse of his heart. With his trademark grace and poise on the ice, he skated to gold-medal championships in international amateur competition and generously used his influence to raise funds and otherwise assist with worthy causes both internationally and at the personal level. Following the breakdown of his national identity, the Soviet Union in 1991, Petrenko broke new ground as an international representative of the newly recognized independent Ukraine. In the mid 1990s he immigrated to the United States where he raises a family, performs, teaches, and maintains close ties with his homeland.
Petrenko was born in the Black Sea port city of Odessa on June 27, 1969. His parents, Tamara and Vassily were engineers. Petrenko, the eldest of their two sons, was never athletic by nature. He was, in fact, a sickly child, but he enjoyed soccer, and his parents encouraged him to skate at the local rink so that he might develop more stamina and strength. He also studied classical dance and was an accomplished student of ballet.
A Rising Star
Petrenko, having begun skating at age five, was ten years old when
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By Scott Mammoser, Team FSO contributing writer
Photos courtesy Oksana Baiul-Farina and Getty Images by Clive Brunskill, David Madison and Pascal Rondeau/ALLSPORT
There are two distinct moments set under bright lights that Oksana Baiul-Farina remembers with great emotion. The first was when she took the ice before winning the gold medal at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. The second was when she gave birth to her daughter Sophia.
Thirty years have passed since the 16-year-old from Dnipro, Ukraine, stole the hearts of the world. Her Swan Lake short program complemented with her free skate to the sounds of Broadway are two of the most iconic in figure skating history. Today, the 46-year-old resides in Shreveport, La., with her husband and daughter – who will turn nine later this year.
“She likes artistic experiences – that’s what makes her happy,” Baiul-Farina said about her daughter in a phone interview. “And skating is one of them.”
A video surfaced of the family flooding their driveway this winter, giving Sophia a chance to emulate her mother.
“It never snows in Louisiana, but it did,” Baiul-Farina added. “So she enjoyed putting her skates on and skated for a few days.”
Baiul-Farina noted that Sophia watched her mother’s Olympic programs just before Christ