Oksana Baiul

Oksana Baiul is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater. She is the 1993 World champion and the 1994 Olympic champion in ladies singles.

Baiul was born on November 16, 1977 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, an industrial city famous for manufacturing Soviet missiles. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. One day when she was two, her father disappeared. No one is certain whether Sergei Baiul deserted his family, died, or left town when he and his wife divorced. She was raised by her mother, Marinaa French teacherand her maternal grandparents.

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