Oxana Boturchuk

Oxana Boturchuk is a Ukrainian Paralympic sprinter who competes mainly in the T12 classification for athletes with a visual impairment. She was born on 12 September 1984 and comes from the Dnipropetrovsk region, into a family of athletes: her father was a Master of Sports of the USSR in sambo and her mother a candidate for Master of Sports in athletics. She experienced vision loss after an auto accident. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing she won gold in the women's 100 metres T12, silver in the 200 metres T12 and silver in the 400 metres T12, and finished eighth in the long jump F12. The article credits her with three silver medals at the 2020 Games in Tokyo, and at the Paris Paralympics of 2024 she took silver in the 100 metres T12 final in 12.70 seconds and, with her guide Mykyta Barabanov, bronze in the 400 metres. A film about her life, titled Puls, was released in August 2021. She is a lecturer in special physical training at DSUIA and holds the Ukrainian Order of Merit.