An orphan from Ukraine, adopted by an American, became a Paralympic champion in Pkhenchkhane

Three weeks after the elbow injury and one day after she fell and left the race, an American, Oksana Masters, was born in Ukraine and won the gold at the Paralympic Games.

Oksana and Gay Masters.
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Masters, a four-time Paralympic champion, won the cross-country sprint on Wednesday, March 14, in Pyeongchang. In the race for a distance of a kilometer 1,1, she beat German Andrea Exau for more than two seconds, she writes USA Today.

“I didn’t believe it would happen,” Masters said after the race. “I knew I couldn’t miss the chance in my last race.”

On Tuesday, 14 of March, Oksana had to leave the mid-distance biathlon competition. This happened after the fall. Earlier in the Paralympic Games in Phenchhang, Oksana won silver in biathlon and bronze in the cross-country race.

Ранее ForumDaily писал about Oksana Bondarchuk, who was born 28 years ago in Khmelnitsky. Parents abandoned her still in the hospital. Born in the year of the Chernobyl catastrophe, the girl had physical disabilities - six fingers with webbed feet on each leg, and five, also with webbed hands, but no thumbs.

Oksana became known already with the surname of the American adoptive mother - Masters. In 7 years she went to the USA and got a chance not just different in quality of life, but the opportunity to become a successful athlete.

Oksana won the bronze medal in rowing at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games of the year and won a silver medal in ski racing at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games of the year. At the Paralympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, she participated in cycling.

This season, she began her journey by winning three gold medals in biathlon at the first world championships in Canmore, Alberta. But a fall on the ice in Montana, where she trained, made her stop training for a week on the eve of Pyeongchang.

Before the Games, she wrote in social networks that she was grateful for the opportunity to compete.

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