NOT CLINKING

“I will take the liberty of suggesting that in her short 20-year life, Oksana was still happy. She was talented. She was beautiful. She was loved. She became the winner, ”wrote not so long ago about the seven-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Oksana Kostina has one familiar journalist. It’s hard to disagree with this, but at the same time, all these arguments in the “happiness scale” do not convince as much as a single, but terrible counterargument: she was too little ...

February 11, 1993 near the capital's Domodedovo airport there was a car accident that shook the whole country. Moskvich, driven by the silver medalist of the 1992 Olympics modern pentathlon Eduard Zenovka, at full speed, flew into the oncoming lane, along which a heavy truck was moving. A few hours after the collision, the Moskvich passenger, seven-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics and Zenovka's fiancee, Oksana Kostina, died in the hospital from numerous internal wounds. “A porcelain figurine has broken,” Soviet Sport wrote the next day. Eduard also ended up on the operating table, his right kidney was removed, but he survived. Then he hardly squeezed out the words: “The last thing I remember: Ksenia lying in the snow, and my own cry: “Cover her with something, because she’s cold” ... In the “ambulance” I lost consciousness ... "

"VACUUM CLEANER" ON THE OCCUPATIONAL LANE

Eduard Zenovka says:

– That day I flew from Australia, where I won a big international tournament. Hanging in the air for 36 hours. Of course, on the plane he celebrated his victory with his teammates, but he did not take alcohol in his mouth for the last 15 hours of the flight. I say this because I later heard conversations, they say, Zenovka got behind the wheel drunk. Many people saw me at the airport, and if I really were drunk, would I now begin to prove the opposite?

At Sheremetyevo, I was met by my friend and Oksana, who arrived there in my father's car, since mine was being repaired. They threw a friend for training at the Oktyabr sports complex on Schukinskaya, or rather, he drove himself, and then I got behind the wheel. Let's go with Oksana to Domodedovo Airport - her coach asked her to give her friend some documents that needed to be urgently sent to Irkutsk ...

We didn’t drive fast, 60–70 kilometers per hour, and the asphalt didn’t seem to be slippery, so I still can’t understand how I flew into the oncoming lane. Apparently, I was simply distracted - after all, we had not seen each other for a long time. The car seemed to be pulled into a vacuum cleaner ...

THIS IS ALL GOD!

"Do you believe in God?" I asked Eduard Zenovka a few years ago. “No,” he replied, “only to fate. Everyone has their own, so on that day, February 11, 1993, it should have happened like that. Agree, too simple an answer to the question why a young and healthy "knight of the five qualities", as modern pentathletes are called, could not keep the steering wheel of a car moving at a speed of 70 km per hour. However, it seems to me the most accurate.

Eduard Zenovka - the great loser of the Olympics-92 in Barcelona: fortune at the Games turned away from him completely. To become double Olympic champion, it was enough for him just to get to the finish line in show jumping, knocking down as many obstacles as he wanted. But the absurd fall of the horse was worth the gold medal not only to the rider himself, but to the entire CIS pentathletes team. When he left, the audience sympathetically pointed their fingers at the sky, they say, you have nothing to do with it, it's all God ...

Four years later, in the Olympic Atlanta, God again did not want to see him on the highest step of the podium, not even rewarding the fact that Eduard, who returned to the pentathlon without one kidney, accomplished a real sporting feat at a track and field cross-country distance. A fatal fall at the finish line again stopped him a step away from gold.

You can also recall the tragicomic incident that occurred at the World Championships in Egypt, where, having lost the cross-country track, Zenovka ran a hundred meters in the other direction, and it becomes clear that on February 11, 1993, God again decided to test Edward for strength. He just didn’t take into account that at that moment there was a fragile porcelain figurine next to him ...

REJECTED

Vladimir Naipak, Vice President of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation, says:

- For the first time I saw Kostina in 1987 in Kharkov at the international tournament for the prizes of the Ballet magazine, dedicated to the memory of my mother, one of the founders of rhythmic gymnastics in the USSR, Honored Coach of the country Alexandra Semenova-Naypak. From the very first minute of the performance of this well-built girl (and she was then 15 years old) I was struck by the purity of her lines and some kind of inner composure. Oksana worked very neatly and meaningfully, her compositions had content and spiritual content. Every gesture, head turn, even glance was meaningful. And she came, by the way, from Irkutsk, which at that time was not listed among the centers of rhythmic gymnastics in the USSR, and the name of her coach - Olga Buyanova - said little to both specialists and fans of this sport. However, the unknown debutante became the absolute winner of this tournament, leaving behind 14 (!) Members of the USSR national team. It became a real sensation.

Since then I have been following sports career Kostina. She had a different, different from others, intellectual and, I would even say, unusual gymnastics. Not only Buyanova helped to embody it on the platform, but also Vladimir Sokolov, the head of the Irkutsk "Pilgrim Theatre", a composer who wrote music for Oksana. It was this trinity that made everyone believe that there is a school of rhythmic gymnastics in Irkutsk, and the city is one of the centers of this sport in the Soviet Union.

Is it any wonder that already in 1989 Kostina was in the national team, where, together with Alexandra Timoshenko and Oksana Skaldina, she won the team championship at the World Championships in Sarajevo. Two years later, in the same composition, she won the second team medal at the World Championships in Athens. But the problem was that, according to the regulations existing in rhythmic gymnastics, only two athletes from one country can participate in the final of the individual all-around of the largest competitions, European Championships, World Championships and the Olympic Games. In this situation, if the head coach of the national team has, for example, only one worthy candidate, we can talk about the personal drama of the coach, and if he has three magnificent gymnasts at his disposal, then we should talk about the tragedy of the "third wheel". This is how Kostina always turned out to be rejected in the late 80s - early 90s, since her main competitors Alexandra Timoshenko and Oksana Skaldina had an undiscussed trump card - the title of absolute world champion ...

THIRD WHEEL

"What do you want, pay homage blessed memory Oksana Kostina or to stir up the already forgotten scandal of ten years ago? - I listened to such a question in different interpretations more than once in the process of working on this material. That scandal would have surrendered to me, if not for his fatal role in the fate of the Irkutsk gymnast, left behind by the 1992 Olympic team. Kostina herself and her coach Olga Buyanova outlined the essence of the problem in an open letter that appeared in Sovetsky Sport a month and a half before the start of the Games in Barcelona:

“... In a fair fight, we won the right to participate in the Olympics, which was confirmed at a meeting of the CIS Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation on July 5, 1992. In the same place, the head coach of the CIS rhythmic gymnastics team N. Kuzmina determined the team to participate in the Games consisting of Alexandra Timoshenko (Ukraine) and Oksana Kostina (Russia).

The final composition of the participants in the Olympic Games is approved at a meeting of the sports council and the council of presidents Olympic committees CIS. But there a different decision was made. Contrary to the opinion of the federation and the head coach of the national team, a team was approved on it in the following composition: Alexander Timoshenko and Oksana Skaldina (both from Ukraine). Thus, the officials decided our fate ... "

I have no doubt that if Skaldina, for example, had not got the Olympic ticket, her letter would have appeared in the press. But in that situation, experience, the title of the absolute world champion, the gold medal for the absolute championship at the CIS-92 championship and the support of the influential Irina Deryugina, who headed the United Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation, turned out to be on her side. Kostina's main trump card was an unconditional victory at the last qualifying round- The CIS Cup, but this, unfortunately, was not enough ...

The hardest psychological blow that Oksana received was tried to soften ... the President of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, who invited Kostina to Barcelona as an honored guest. But it would be better if he didn't. Perhaps fate itself was protecting her, because it was in the capital of Catalonia, or rather, on a plane flying along the route Barcelona - Moscow, that they crossed life paths Zenovka and Kostina ...

PORCELAIN FIGURINE CRASHED

“After the Olympics, I couldn’t see anyone for more than a month,” Oksana later recalled. - I was almost one hundred percent sure that I would no longer be able to morally go to the platform. This whole story was worth such nerves, and then suddenly I wanted to prove to everyone that I can do whatever I want!

And she did, winning two months later five gold medals out of five possible at the XV World Championships in Brussels! A success that can be repeated, but cannot be surpassed. Although it was achieved in the absence of the main competitors - Tymoshenko and Skaldina - but, looking at the inspired gymnastics of the new absolute world champion, it was clear that no one would have resisted her.

After this victory, Oksana was going to participate in commercial tournaments with demonstration performances, the benefit of the invitation fell like a cornucopia. “Really, it was worth winning to see that the whole world cannot live without me,” Oksana, who was born again, laughed. She again had big plans, but on February 11, 1993, they broke off in the oncoming lane ...

Galina Danilovna, Oksana's mother, says:

- A policeman came to our house and said: "You have a corpse in Moscow." I answered: “I don’t have a corpse there, I have a living one there, healthy child". Oksana called the day before, she was so joyful, happy. Waiting for Edik from Australia. I was going to remember my grandmother tomorrow, who, one might say, raised her and Tanya, Oksana's older sister. Grandmother died on February 11, 1992. This is a fateful day for our family...

And after her death, we were robbed several times, absolutely all of Oksana's jewelry was taken out. And when my dead girl was brought from Moscow, she was not wearing any jewelry: no earrings, no rings, no gold bracelet that Edik managed to give her at the airport. Even the whole bag was thrown out. Yes, God judge them, these thieves - they did not get rich, and we did not become poor. Around us hundreds of times more people who remember and love Oksana. In the cemetery, fresh flowers often lie on her grave, and once we met with the young man who brings them. And he admitted: “I loved your daughter very much, but I was always afraid to approach her ...”

FROM THE DOSSIER OF "SOVIET SPORT"

OKSANA KOSTINA

KOSTINA KSENIA

One of the strongest gymnasts-"artists" of the world in the late 80s - early 90s. She was born on April 15, 1972 in Irkutsk. Silver and bronze medalist at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle. European champion 1992 in individual exercises in Stuttgart. World champion in team event 1989 (Sarajevo) and 1991 (Athens) Five-time world champion in 1992 (Brussels), including in the absolute championship. At the World and European Championships she won 14 medals, 9 of them gold.

VERBATIM

Honored Coach of the USSR Olga Buyanova:

- It makes no sense to compare Oksana Kostina and Alina Kabaeva. According to natural data, Oksana had only 30 percent of Alina's arsenal. But she conquered others. Oksana went out onto the carpet, and everyone, as if spellbound, looked at her. She could not be confused with anyone, because she had her own handwriting. Even the music is special, specially written for her. Oksana has risen primarily due to painstaking work. She turned on her creative abilities to the fullest. I moved forward without sudden jumps, purposefully, step by step. It is interesting for me to work with people like Oksana Kostina, who was talented not in body, but in soul.

INFORMATION FOR THINKING

Unlike ice hockey, in almost all other game types sport, even in those whose popularity is disproportionately less, in Europe every year the strongest club of the continent is determined.

Kind of sport	Tournament name	Number of participating teams
Basketball	Euroleague	32 (m), 16 (w)
Volleyball	Champions League	16 (m), 16 (w)
	Champions League	32 (m), 32 (w)
Hockey with a ball	Champions Cup
Water polo	Champions League
	Champions Cup
	Champions Cup
	European Cup
	European Cup
	European Cup
American football	Euroleague
Field hockey	Champions Cup	24 (m), 21 (w)
indoor hockey	Champions Cup	28 (m), 24 (w)
	European Cup

*Korfball- the younger brother of basketball, there are four men and women on the court at the same time from each side.

Oksana Kostina did not get to the Olympics and did not have time to get married. On February 11, 1993, she died in a car accident on the way to Domodedovo.

February 11 marks the 24th anniversary of the death of the wonderful athlete Oksana Kostina. In rhythmic gymnastics, she became a real phenomenon, halls gathered for her and spectators from different countries cheered for her. Kostina was unable to compete at the Olympics due to the decision of the officials, she left the sport, having won all the gold of the World Championship in Brussels, and a few months later she died in a car accident. Her fiancé overestimated his strength on a slippery road.

Pearl of Siberia

Oksana Kostina was brought to rhythmic gymnastics by her parents. Of course, no one then thought that a weak and often sick girl would make a gymnast, which is simply impossible to copy. Kostina studied with Sarah Gorelik, then with Natalya Fursova, and then got into the group with Olga Buyanova, who had noticed her three years before.

“Among 30 or 40 children, I saw her right away. She was so fragile, with a smart little face. How she moved, passed the standards, approached, departed! She did all this with natural eversion legs and with some amazing culture, completely uncharacteristic of small children. She had not yet sat on the twine, had not made a bridge, but it was obvious that the girl was very, very capable, ”Buyanova recalled in her book.

Kostina worked with gymnasts who were three or four years older, but she endured, worked and withstood all the loads. And the loads were the hardest: Oksana had to do 30 runs per workout, and often more. Stretching and the ability to work with objects were added to the musicality, danceability and choreography. Six months later, Oksana was in no way inferior to the girls in her group.

Kostina quickly stood out among many other gymnasts at her age, and we are talking about the USSR, where the competition was enormous. Oksana was distinguished by the purity of lines and artistry on the carpet. The athlete tried to turn each performance into a mini-performance: sometimes it turned out better, sometimes worse, but Kostina was never insincere and dishonest in her performances. Together with the gymnast, the skill of her coach also grew.

To the Olympics as a tourist

In 1989, Oksana Kostina, with programs performed to music written by the composer and director of the Pilgrim Theater Vladimir Sokolov, became the third in the USSR championship. Sokolov wrote music until the end of it sports career, and after the death of Kostina included fragments of his works in theater performances.

Kostina got into the Olympic team along with Alexandra Timoshenko. But instead of one Oksana, another went to the Olympics - Skaldina.

All the strongest athletes of the country came to Krasnoyarsk for that championship, and the third place of the 17-year-old gymnastics from Irkutsk became a sensation. It was remembered even more than the demarche of the Olympic champion Marina Lobach, who left the tournament due to dissatisfaction with the marks. The status of the winner of the USSR championship allowed Kostina to get into the national team and move to the base in Novogorsk with her coach. At the same time, she was included in the team for the World Championship in Sarajevo for the first time and for the first time received gold medal in team competition.

She achieved these successes in cooperation and rivalry with Ukrainian gymnasts, Alexandra Timoshenko and Oksana Skaldina. It was they, along with Kostina, who fought for three years to get to the Olympic Games in Barcelona. And Kostina won that fight. At the 1992 tournaments, she repeatedly proved her right to one of the two Olympic tickets. And at the European Championships in Stuttgart, and at the CIS Cup.

Kostina got into the Olympic team along with Alexandra Timoshenko. But instead of one Oksana, another went to the Olympics - Skaldina. The USSR had ceased to exist by that time, and the one who approved the final composition of the team sports advice and the Council of Heads of the Olympic Committees of the CIS countries made a different choice. Main coach Natalya Kuzmina and the leadership of the federation could not change anything.
Kostina found out about this a month and a half before the start of the Olympic Games, which were her goal and dream. Coach Olga Buyanova convinced her not to quit training, and at the same time tried to do everything possible to change her mind. An open letter was written to Boris Yeltsin, and Shamil Tarpishchev, the country's presidential adviser on sports at the time, responded to it.

Oksana Kostina was preparing for the triumphant World Championships in Brussels in October 1992, despite excess weight and the resulting stretching of the Achilles.

He ensured that Kostina and Buyanova went to Barcelona and received temporary accreditations on the spot. Two days before the start of the "artists" competition, another council gathered, where it was already finally decided - Skaldina was speaking.

Departure, return and absolute triumph

The suspension from the Olympics very much psychologically crippled Oksana Kostina. She told Buyanova that she was leaving the sport, abandoned training and returned home to Irkutsk. The athlete was brought out of this state by the pentathlete Eduard Zenovka, whom Kostina met in Barcelona and who became a two-time winner at those Games. The athletes began a romantic relationship.

Zenovka convinced Kostina to listen to the opinion of the coach, who persuaded her to stay at least for one tournament and leave the sport beautifully. And this tournament was the championship in Brussels, where the Federation had already announced Kostin gymnastics Russia. Kostina was preparing for it, despite the extra weight and the resulting Achilles sprain. The Federation allowed Buyanova to declare Dr. Vitold Sivokhov, who worked with Kostina throughout her career, as a member of the delegation.

And Oksana Kostina performed brilliantly in Belgium. For the first time in the history of rhythmic gymnastics, she won all the gold medals - in the all-around and exercises with individual objects. True, Kostina entered the last two exercises only after a tough conversation with Buyanova - the pain in her leg was very strong, and the athlete had already won three gold medals. The audience gave Kostina a real ovation.
After that, the gymnast received numerous offers to perform at commercial tournaments and shows, showed her skills in different countries, said that she intended to become a coach and educate new stars. Although she was only 20 years old. Dreamed of family and children.

Funeral in a wedding dress

But on February 11, 1993, Oksana Kostina died. Eduard Zenovka, along with his fiancee, was driving to Domodedovo Airport to hand over some documents to the coach, and then return home. The athlete, who just a few hours earlier had arrived from the competition in Australia, could not cope with his Moskvich on a slippery road and flew into the oncoming lane, along which the truck was driving.

Oksana Kostina was buried in Irkutsk. At the insistence of her mother and sister, the athlete was placed in a coffin in wedding dress and fate - she never had time to get married.

Kostina died a few hours after the accident from numerous internal injuries. Zenovka shouted: "Cover her with something, she's cold!" — and then lost consciousness. Eduard survived but lost a kidney. He left the sport, went into business, but returned again. Already with one kidney, he competed at the Olympics in Atlanta, where at the very finish of the cross-country he stumbled, fell and lost in the fight for gold to the pentathlete from Kazakhstan Alexander Parygin.

Oksana Kostina was buried in Irkutsk. At the insistence of her mother and sister, the athlete was put in a coffin in a wedding dress and veil - she did not have time to get married. Until 2008, a tournament in memory of Oksana Kostina was held in her hometown. This tournament will be held again in 2018.

20 years have passed since the great gymnast died

On February 11, 1993, a car accident occurred near Domodedovo Airport, which shocked not only sports Russia- Oksana Kostina was loved in different countries of the world. The Moskvich, driven by Eduard Zenovka, silver medalist of the 1992 Olympics in modern pentathlon, flew into the oncoming lane at full speed ... A few hours after the collision, the passenger of the Moskvich, seven-time world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Oksana Kostina, died in the hospital for multiple internal wounds. She went to the airport to meet her fiancé - Eduard Zenovka. Oksana was buried in a wedding dress. At parting with her, the musicians of the Pilgrim Theater played. We could not help remembering Oksana today, because there were no more such gymnasts and never will be. And it's not about grace, not about absolute control of your body, not about the highest skill. Oksana had a rare spiritual fullness. Watch videos of her performances, they are on the Internet. Those eyes are unforgettable. Oksana was a truly beautiful person, very strong, courageous and kind. Three people tell us today about Oksana: her mother, Galina Kostina; the coach who brought her to the sports Olympus is Olga Buyanova; and the composer who created the music for her performances - the artistic director of the Pilgrim Theater Vladimir Sokolov. Oksana was the only gymnast in the world for whom music was written specifically. She was the only one. And not just for my mom.

Galina Kostina, mother

It is always difficult to come to an orphaned house. Oksana's mom still lives in that
apartment on Utkina Street, where her girl grew up and grew up. On this house now
hangs a memorial plaque in memory of Oksana. Everything in the apartment still breathes Oksana:
her photos, medals, cups... And each new mother's day is similar to the previous one:
inhale - Oksana, exhale - Oksana. Relatives of Oksana Kostina are still not
I believe in the irreversibility of death, in the eternal departure of this tender girl.

When Oksana went to first grade, older sister took her to the Palace
pioneers to view. There were 200 children. Late evening. They are all non-existent.
We have already lost them. Suddenly we see - our girls are walking, and Oksana is running ahead:
"They took me, they took me!" "Where did they take you?" - I ask. "I don't know where
some gymnastics. But then she really liked this business, not a single
She didn't miss class. If she rested for 2-3 days, then she already began to suffer - in
the hall was pulling. The child was very responsible. I studied well at school, everything
did well. She was very good at math. She loved to ask her father questions and
later she was surprised: “Dad, how do you know everything? From books? I'll finish my business
I will read all literature.

She had many friends. Is there time for friendship?

There were many girls around. Whenever she came home from competitions,
In the yard, the news swept by: “Our bone has arrived!” Children ran from all over the area.
She loved children and the children loved her. When I was little, then everyone on the street
coached. She loved people. And in general, I loved life, I wanted to live. Nobody is
I thought that Oksana would die. And how do you think about this? Who could have foreseen?.. Home
she came - she dragged everything to the kids, to her nieces. She loved them very much. chewing gum
weren't in stores then. Oksana brought it to the children in boxes. I remember once we
with Nastya, the eldest, we meet Oksana at the airport. She let's sniff the bag:
“Oksanochka, it smells like chewing gum!” She is on any trip, as free time fell out,
immediately in Child's world” ran, bought gifts for her nieces. Loved children.
Apparently, she felt that there would be none of her own. Oksana believed in fate, but not
foresaw her tragic departure.

Once she told me: “I will finish gymnastics, then I will start living. We will live with
you, mom." We had a very warm, tender, trusting relationship. We lived
as a whole. I remember her every day, I think about her, I talk about her. Here
hanging her last picture from France, where she successfully performed. I loved very much
Paris, and in Paris she was loved and expected. And I still live like it's alive. But
everything is grey. After Oksana, the world seems gray. They say time heals. Not,
nothing heals. It all seems to me that she is flying somewhere. And I still wait for her
I will go to her myself. Galina Danilovna does not hold a grudge against Eduard Zenovka, who was
driving that day. What's to be angry about? This is destiny. He still calls his mom
Oksana, sends gifts to New Year. His parents call, do not forget. Olga
Buyanova and Anatoly Buyanov also support Oksana's mother well, they invite her to
competitions.

If not for the people, I would not have survived simply. But the people around are good people. Give them
God of health!

Olga Buyanova, coach

It was very hard to lose such a gymnast. Still don't know how I do it
survived. Today I watch recordings of Oksana's performances and am amazed at how much she
was perfect. And at the same time I am surprised: I was still as young as ours
did it work? In her period from 19 to 20 years old, I experienced such delight, such
unity and understanding! .. Sometimes I sat at performances and thought: “How
a small child such a miracle has grown?

Do I think about Oksana? Certainly. Can I imagine how her fate would have turned out?
I'm sure it's very good. She was so talented not only in sports.
She was very smart, almost an excellent student, despite the fantastic
sports load. Intellectually, she was also gifted, had a penchant for
languages. She could also graduate from high school, she would be an excellent choreographer,
wonderful mother. Everything would be fine with her. Oksana was extremely rare not only
talented, but also a positive person.

Vladimir Sokolov, composer

Oksana and I didn't have different words. Now it is customary to discuss, to argue.
And we didn't have anything like that. It was like love at first sight. Lenya
Demin, our sound engineer, called her an athlete. We called her that after that. But
this was a great girl.

You immediately realized that the great?

Certainly. A lot of great people live in Siberia, but, unfortunately, not
they always open up. Different circumstances interfere with them. And Olga Buyanova -
great coach who helped some of them. I was able to keep working
despite such a terrible loss. In the film "Oksana", shot by our
East-Siberian newsreel studio, they show already little Natasha
Lipkovskaya. She also became the world champion, the Queen became the world champion, and
Dasha Dmitrieva had not yet been born. The Siberian land is inexhaustible. This is the main thing
for me. And the fact that I am sometimes useful to such people.

Olga Buyanova brought Oksana to your basement to see Lenin when she was just a girl. By
In fact, a child has come to you.

But she came and immediately said the word "yes" seriously. For me it was
the impetus for the realization of her beautiful yes. Our footballers have no word
“yes”, and Russian hockey has the word “yes” and the state of the winners. And our
the traditions of the winners must be preserved and multiplied. Oksana is eternal, she is a carrier
these traditions, human talent. How to preserve and increase these traditions -
here is the task. A person like Oksana creates the prerequisites for development. And if
think about her, going on some road, she will always help. Who do you want! And
Galina Danilovna is the same - they have such a breed. Oksana's mom comes and says
yes or no, we never have a moment to debate. I have to her
the deepest love, respect and admiration as a person, a mother. We have
there is a performance called "Mother's Heart" - it is about this, about mothers.

You said that people like Oksana were not born yet, that they are people
future...

Yes, Oksana is a person of the future. Because still the level of her
I did not meet the performance skills. This is a clear gem. God bless Dasha
Dmitrieva to rise to such heights! She has everything for this: strength, stamina,
the beauty.

Even through the years and distances, it is clear that Oksana was a very
clean, bright, kind.

And she had no time for clothes, for a bank account, for the vanity of life. She is
strived to be perfect in what life offered her. And she rushed it
express. For whom? Yes, for you, for me, for us, for those who live today. And you can
choose her path, her aspiration or the path of a successful young lady at the competition "A
well…”

When such young and talented people leave, the feeling of acute
injustice.

Her early departure is an absolute injustice. Following these modern
By standards, I believe that goodness on earth is 51 percent. But this extra percentage
demands such sacrifices. To be that 51 percent, the best must burn themselves.
That's how the world is supposed to be. Because, if God forbid, there will be only 49 percent
goodness, talent, some comet will fly in and it will become very hot for everyone.

Mom is sorry.

Of course it is. But the Lord gave her a great daughter. And this is forever. Here
no time, no concept of the past. She is a mother, and this is a great word. than a mother
Oksana Kostina is different from another great mother? They have one greatness, one
genes. This is Siberia, Siberians. Buyanova in Siberian is very strong, and beautiful, and
beautiful. Siberia is stronger than the middle territories - more pampered, spoiled,
compromise. Living in Siberia is harsh. The more beautiful are the actions of Olga Buyanova,
which continues this path of the winner, while maintaining the memory of
Oksana.

Specialization:

individual all-around

Club: Date of Birth: Date of death: Professional career: Coach(s):

Awards and medals

Rhythmic gymnastics
World Championships
Gold	Brussels 1992	all-around
Gold	Brussels 1992	skipping rope
Gold	Brussels 1992	hoop
Gold	Brussels 1992	ball
Gold	Brussels 1992	maces
Gold	Athens 1991	team
Gold	Sarajevo 1989	team
Silver	Sarajevo 1989	ball
European Championships
Gold	Stuttgart 1992	hoop
Gold	Stuttgart 1992	ball
Gold	Stuttgart 1992	maces
Bronze	Stuttgart 1992	all-around
Bronze	Stuttgart 1992	team
Gold	Gothenburg 1990	team
Goodwill Games
Bronze	Seattle 1990	all-around
Bronze	Seattle 1990	skipping rope
Silver	Seattle 1990	ball
State awards

Oksana Alexandrovna Kostina (April 15 ( 19720415 ) , Irkutsk, USSR - February 11, Moscow region, Russia) - Soviet and Russian athlete, represented rhythmic gymnastics in individual exercises.

Biography

In total, she won 14 medals at the World and European Championships, of which 9 were gold.

An international tournament in memory of Oksana is held annually in Irkutsk. The winners were Yulia Barsukova, Irina Chashchina, Laysan Utyasheva, Zarina Gizikova.

A memorial plaque hangs on the house where Oksana lived.

Sports results

• Sarajevo (Yugoslavia) Silver medalist of the World Championship in the team event, 2nd place in exercises with the ball.
• Seattle (USA) Goodwill Games bronze medalist in all-around, 2nd place in ball exercises.
• (Germany) Gymnastics masters. 2nd place in the all-around, 1st place ball, rope, hoop.
• Gothenburg (Sweden
• Athens (Greece) World champion in the team event.
• Bronze medalist of the European Championship in all-around, 1st place ball, clubs, hoop.
• Brussels (Belgium) World champion in all-around, 1st place ball, clubs, hoop, rope.

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Prince Andrei was given tea. He drank greedily, looking ahead at the door with feverish eyes, as if trying to understand and remember something.
- I don't want any more. Timokhin here? - he asked. Timokhin crawled up to him along the bench.
“I'm here, Your Excellency.
- How is the wound?
– My then with? Nothing. Here you are? - Prince Andrei again thought, as if remembering something.
- Could you get a book? - he said.
- Which book?
– Gospel! I do not have.
The doctor promised to get it and began to question the prince about how he felt. Prince Andrei reluctantly but reasonably answered all the doctor's questions and then said that he should have put a roller on him, otherwise it would be awkward and very painful. The doctor and the valet raised the overcoat with which he was covered, and, wincing at the heavy smell of rotten meat spreading from the wound, began to examine this terrible place. The doctor was very dissatisfied with something, altered something differently, turned the wounded man over so that he again groaned and, from pain during the turning, again lost consciousness and began to rave. He kept talking about getting this book as soon as possible and putting it there.
- And what does it cost you! he said. “I don’t have it, please take it out, put it in for a minute,” he said in a pitiful voice.
The doctor went out into the hallway to wash his hands.
“Ah, shameless, really,” said the doctor to the valet, who was pouring water on his hands. I just didn't watch it for a minute. After all, you put it right on the wound. It's such a pain that I wonder how he endures.
“We seem to have planted, Lord Jesus Christ,” said the valet.
For the first time, Prince Andrei realized where he was and what had happened to him, and remembered that he had been wounded and that at the moment when the carriage stopped in Mytishchi, he asked to go to the hut. Confused again from pain, he came to his senses another time in the hut, when he was drinking tea, and here again, repeating in his recollection everything that had happened to him, he most vividly imagined that moment at the dressing station when, at the sight of the suffering of a man he did not love , these new thoughts that promised him happiness came to him. And these thoughts, although vague and indefinite, now again took possession of his soul. He remembered that he now had a new happiness and that this happiness had something in common with the Gospel. That's why he asked for the gospel. But the bad position that had been given to his wound, the new turning over again confused his thoughts, and for the third time he woke up to life in the perfect stillness of the night. Everyone was sleeping around him. The cricket was shouting across the entryway, someone was shouting and singing in the street, cockroaches rustled on the table and icons, in autumn a thick fly beat on his headboard and near a tallow candle that was burning with a large mushroom and stood beside him.
His soul was not in a normal state. A healthy person usually thinks, feels and remembers at the same time about an innumerable number of objects, but he has the power and strength, having chosen one series of thoughts or phenomena, to stop all his attention on this series of phenomena. A healthy person, in a moment of deepest reflection, breaks away to say a courteous word to the person who has entered, and again returns to his thoughts. The soul of Prince Andrei was not in a normal state in this respect. All the forces of his soul were more active, clearer than ever, but they acted outside of his will. The most diverse thoughts and ideas simultaneously owned him. Sometimes his thought suddenly began to work, and with such force, clarity and depth, with which it had never been able to act in a healthy state; but suddenly, in the middle of her work, she broke off, was replaced by some unexpected performance, and there was no strength to return to her.
“Yes, a new happiness has opened up to me, inalienable from a person,” he thought, lying in a half-dark, quiet hut and looking ahead with feverishly open, stopped eyes. Happiness that is outside of material forces, outside of material external influences on a person, the happiness of one soul, the happiness of love! Any person can understand it, but only God alone can recognize and prescribe its motif. But how did God ordain this law? Why a son? .. And suddenly the train of these thoughts was interrupted, and Prince Andrei heard (not knowing whether he was delirious or really hears this), heard some kind of quiet, whispering voice, incessantly repeating to the beat: “And drink, drink, drink,” then “and ti ti” again “and drink ti ti” again “and ti ti”. At the same time, to the sound of this whispering music, Prince Andrey felt that some strange airy building of thin needles or splinter was erected above his face, above the very middle. He felt (although it was hard for him) that he had to diligently keep his balance so that the building that was being erected would not collapse; but it still collapsed and again slowly rose to the sounds of evenly whispering music. "It's pulling! stretches! stretches and everything stretches, ”Prince Andrei said to himself. Together with listening to the whisper and with the feeling of this stretching and rising building of needles, Prince Andrei saw in fits and starts the red light of a candle surrounded by a circle and heard the rustling of cockroaches and the rustling of a fly beating on the pillow and on his face. And every time a fly touched his face, it produced a burning sensation; but at the same time he was surprised that, hitting the very region of the building erected on his face, the fly did not destroy it. But besides that, there was one more important thing. It was white at the door, it was a statue of a sphinx that crushed him too.

Not to say that Oksana Kostina from the very beginning of her sports career served big hopes. But thanks to her artistry and perseverance, by the age of 20 she became the owner of many awards, among which were gold medals from the European and world championships. How much more joy Kostina brought to her fans, we will never know now.

Successes and failures

Oksana Kostina was born on April 15, 1972 in Irkutsk. She, like many other girls of that time, wanted to do gymnastics, so one fine day Oksana appeared in sports section. And soon the young athlete was under the tutelage of an experienced coach Olga Buyanova. In 1989, Kostina was already in the national team Soviet Union. Soon she, along with her team, went to the World Championships in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she became the champion in the team event.

Despite all the successes, Oksana never achieved her goal. cherished dream- participation in Olympic Games in Spanish Barcelona. In 1992, another gymnast Oksana Skaldina went there instead. Apparently, this circumstance was a real blow for the girl.

Death of a gymnast

However, in Kostina's personal life, everything went well. She met with Eduard Zenovka, also an athlete, only in the pentathlon. Young people were going to get married. But this wedding was not destined to take place.

On February 11, 1993, Oksana was on her way to Domodedovo Airport. Behind the wheel of "Moskvich" was her fiance Eduard Zenovka. At some point, Eduard drove into the oncoming lane, where a GAZ truck immediately crashed into his car. When the gymnast was taken to the ambulance, she was still alive, but on the same day she died in the hospital from her injuries. Zenovka survived.

Causes of the accident

They say the road was slippery that winter day. In addition, according to some reports, Eduard Zenovka was in a state of mild alcohol intoxication. Be that as it may, the fatal maneuver that Zenovka made cost 20-year-old Oksana Kostina her life.

Oksana achieved everything exceptionally hard work, and, as you know, it is hardworking people who succeed in life more often than others. 2 years before her death, Kostina was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of the Soviet Union, and a year later she became the world champion in competitions in Brussels. The only pity is that we will never know about what else the athlete could have achieved. Future Olympic champion, future wife already in the grave. Now she is the eternal bride.

Shortly after the accident, Eduard Zenovka left big sport and went into business. Maybe the reason for this was the state of health, or maybe because he was tormented by guilt. Who knows…

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