Oksana Kashchyshyna

Oksana Kashchyshyna

Personal information
Full name	Oksana Mykhailivna Kashchyshyna
Born	15 February 1978 Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Amateur team(s)
Ukraïna Dnipropetrovsk
Professional team(s)
2011	S.C. Michela Fanini Rox
Infobox last updated on October 6, 2013

Oksana Mykhailivna Kashchyshyna (Ukrainian: Оксана Михайлівна Кащишина; born February 15, 1978 in Dnipropetrovsk) is a retired Ukrainian professional road cyclist.^[1] She represented her nation Ukraine at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and later joined with Italy's SC Michela Fanini (Record Rox) pro cycling team for the 2011 season under an annual contract.^[2]

Kashchyshyna qualified for the Ukrainian squad in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving one of the nation's three berths from the UCI World Cup, along with her fellow riders Tetyana Styazhkina and Yevheniya Vysotska. She successfully completed a grueling race with a forty-second-place finish through a vast field of sixty-six cyclists in 3:34:13, trailing behind Germany's Judith Arndt by a 22-second gap.^[3][4]

Career highlights

2007

2nd Ukrainian Championships (Road)

2008

2nd Ukrainian Championships (Road)

42nd Olympic Games, Beijing (CHN)

2009

2nd Stage 1, Tour de Bretagne Féminin, France

References

1. "Oksana Kashchyshyna". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
2. "SC Michela Fanini Record Rox – In Spagna bene Malgorzata Jasinska" [SC Michela Fanini Record Rox – Malgorzata Jasinska is satisfied in Spain] (in Italian). Newsciclismo.com. 15 June 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
3. "Women's Road Race". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
4. "Cooke weathers storm to take Olympic gold". Velo News. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2013.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile
• Oksana Kashchyshyna profile at Cycling Archives