Oksana Masters

Oksana Masters is a Ukrainianborn American Paralympic rower and crosscountry skier from Louisville, Kentucky. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she won the first ever United States medal in trunk and arms mixed double sculls. She was named to the U.S. Nordic skiing team for the 2014 Winter Paralympics.

Oksana was born with several radiationinduced birth defects, including tibial hemimelia , missing weightbearing shinbones in her calves, webbed fingers with no thumbs, and six toes on each foot. She was abandoned by her birth parents at a Ukrainian orphanage where she lived until age 7. After she turned 7, Oksana was adopted by Gay Masters, an unmarried American speech therapy professor with no children of her own.

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