Oksana Stepicheva

Oksana Stepicheva (née Kovalyova; Russian: Оксана Степичева; born 3 September 1969) is a Russian former track and field athlete who competed in sprinting events for the Soviet Union and Russia.

Born Oksana Kovalyova (Russian: Оксана Ковалёва), she won her first international medal at the 1987 European Athletics Junior Championships, finishing as runner-up to East Germany's Diana Dietz in the 200 metres.

The two repeated this finish in the 4×100 metres relay, where the Soviet women's team which included Lyudmila Dmitriadi took second place.

[2] Stepicheva rose to the top of the national scene with a 200 m win at the 1990 Soviet Athletics Championships, where she ran a best of 22.97 seconds.

First, she ran a personal best indoors of 22.97 seconds at the Meeting Pas de Calais in France.