Oksana Slivenko

Who is Oksana Slivenko?

Oxana Nikolayevna Slivenko is a Russian weightlifter.

She won the silver medal at the 2005 Junior World Championships in the 63 kg category, and again at the 2006 Junior World Championships in the 69 kg category.

Slivenko participated in the women's 69 kg class at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the gold medal, with a World Record snatch of 123 kg, and clean and jerking an additional 140 kg for a total of 263 kg.

At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the gold medal again in the 69 kg class, with a World Record total of 276 kg.

She won the silver medal in the 69 kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics, with a total of 255 kg. Slivenko was forced to withdraw from London Olympics 2012, on account of suffering an injury in a training session.