{{Short description|Russian individual rhythmic gymnast}} {{Infobox gymnast | name = Oksana Kostina | image = Oksana Kostina, Corbeil-Essonnes, France.jpg | image_size = | caption = | full_name = | altname = | nickname = | country = {{RUS}} | formercountry = {{URS}} | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1972|04|15}} | birth_place = Irkutsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | hometown = | residence = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1993|02|11|1972|04|15}} | death_place = Moscow, Russia | height = | discipline = RG | level = | natlteam = | club = | gym = | collegeteam = | headcoach = | assistcoach = Olga Buyanova | formercoach = | choreographer = | music = | eponymousskills = | retired = | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = <!-- see Template:MedalRelatedTemplates --> {{MedalCountry | {{RUS}} }} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships}} {{MedalGold| 1992 Brussels|All-around}} {{MedalGold| 1992 Brussels|Rope}} {{MedalGold| 1992 Brussels|Hoop}} {{MedalGold| 1992 Brussels|Ball}} {{MedalGold| 1992 Brussels|Clubs}} {{MedalCompetition | European Championships}} {{MedalGold|1992 Stuttgart|Hoop}} {{MedalGold|1992 Stuttgart|Ball}} {{MedalGold|1992 Stuttgart|Clubs}} {{MedalBronze|1992 Stuttgart|All-around}} {{MedalBronze|1992 Stuttgart|Team}} {{MedalCountry | {{URS}} }} {{MedalCompetition | World Championships}} {{MedalGold| 1989 Sarajevo|Team}} {{MedalGold| 1991 Athens|Team}} {{MedalSilver| 1989 Sarajevo|Ball}} {{MedalCompetition | European Championships}} {{MedalGold| 1990 Gothenburg|Team}} {{MedalGold| 1990 Gothenburg|Hoop}} {{MedalCompetition| Goodwill Games}} {{MedalSilver | 1990 Seattle | Ball}} {{MedalBronze | 1990 Seattle | All-around}} {{MedalBronze | 1990 Seattle | Rope}} }}
'''Oksana Alexandrovna Kostina''' ({{langx|ru|Оксана Александровна Костина}}; 15 April 1972 – 11 February 1993) was a Russian individual rhythmic gymnast. She was the 1992 World All-around champion and 1992 European All-around bronze medalist.
== Career == For years, Kostina remained in the shadow of two Ukrainian gymnasts, Oksana Skaldina and Olexandra Tymoshenko. Though she won the all-around bronze medal at the 1992 European Championships, she was not selected for the Olympic Games in Barcelona. Kostina and her coach, Olga Buyanova, frustrated by what they felt was the Unified Team's favoritism toward Skaldina, traveled to Barcelona and Kostina trained with the British team for a short time before she was ordered home.<ref>[http://kostinarsg.narod.ru Сайт памяти Оксаны Костиной]</ref>
[[File:Carmen Acedo, Larissa Loukianenko, Maria Petrova y Oksana Kóstina 1992 Bruselas.PNG|left|thumb|300px|Kostina at the 1992 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships]] In the absence of the two Ukrainian gymnasts, Kostina won the All-around gold medal, as well as gold medals in rope, hoop, ball and clubs at the 1992 World Championships in Brussels. She became Russia's first World Champion as an independent country. Her goal was to compete at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
== Death == Kostina died in a car crash on 11 February 1993 in Moscow, a few weeks shy of her 21st birthday. She was engaged to Eduard Zenovka, a fellow athlete and Pentathlon bronze-medalist at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. A lorry that was driving in the opposite direction crashed head-on into their vehicle. Both athletes were seriously injured and needed surgery in hospital. Sixteen hours later, Kostina died from injuries sustained at the car crash. The police investigation revealed that Zenovka, who was driving the car, was heavily intoxicated at the time of the accident.<ref>[https://www.championat.com/other/article-3303301-istorija-gimnastki-oksany-kostinoj-kotoraja-ne-popala-na-olimpiadu-i-pogibla.html Ей холодно! Зачем гимнастку Костину хоронили в свадебном платье]</ref>
== Achievements == Kostina was one of the few gymnasts to win gold medals in all of the apparatus in a single World Championship, along with Darja Varfolomeev, Bianka Panova, Ekaterina Serebrianskaya and Evgenia Kanaeva.
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==External links== * {{FIG|bio=22229|lic=818|name=Oksana Kostina}} * [http://r-gymnastics.com/kostina-oksana-aleksandrovna Oksana Kostina] at r-gymnastics.com {{in lang|ru}}
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