Gusman Sittikovich Kosanov ( Kaz. Ғұsman Syytytyқұly Kosanov ) (1935-1990) - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1965), Soviet athlete , silver medalist of the 1960 Olympics in Rome (relay race 4 × 100 meters), the first Olympic medalist - a native of Kazakhstan and ethnic Kazakh .
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| Full name | Kosanov Gusman Sittikovich | ||||||||||||||||
| Date and place of birth | May 25, 1935 aul Izatulla , Bel-Agachsky district , East Kazakhstan region , Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||||||||||||
| Date and Place of Death | July 19, 1990 (55 years old) Alma-Ata , Kazakh SSR , USSR | ||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  the USSR | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm | ||||||||||||||||
| The weight | 68 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 Memory
- 4 Interesting Facts
- 5 notes
Biography
Guzman Kosanov was born into a large family in the Semipalatinsk region .
In 1951 he entered the railway school of Semipalatinsk . In addition to studying, he went in for sports: football, skiing, athletics, hockey.
During military service he was sent to serve in Sevastopol. Here he was admitted to the school of anti-tank defense. Once at a competition among cadets in the 100-meter race, he unexpectedly showed an excellent result - 10.8 seconds.
In 1955, at the Ukrainian SSR Championship, Kosanov in the 100 meter race with a result of 10.7 seconds. climbed to the second step of the podium. The champion of Ukraine then became the famous athlete Leonid Bartenev , who won 0.1 seconds against Kosanov. In 1957, the famous trainer Alexander Alexandrovich Maslovsky invited Kosanov to the city of Chisinau. Where he meets his future wife Zinaida Tikhonovna Rydenko . Guzman enters the college of physical education and continues to do athletics. In the first competition, he becomes the champion of Moldova in the 200 and 400 meters race and in the 4 × 100 relay race. In the spring of 1960, the 4 × 100 m relay race was won by the national team of the Armed Forces with a result of 40.7 seconds.
In the status of champion of the USSR, Kosanov, as part of the national team of the country, is preparing for the 1960 Games in Rome. As part of the USSR national team in the relay race 4 × 100 m, Gusman Kosanov, Leonid Bartenev , Yuri Konovalov and Edwin Ozolin took to the treadmill. In these competitions, the USSR team with a result of 40.1 seconds. (manual stopwatch) becomes the silver medalist after the German national team. Gusman Kosanov forever entered the annals of domestic sports as the first Kazakh, who brought his homeland the first Olympic medal of silver tide [1] .
In 1962, Kosanov returned to Kazakhstan and began to play for the SKA team ( Alma-Ata ).
At the 1964 Games in Tokyo, Kosanov also took part in the relay, but our team ( Edwin Ozolin , Boris Zubov, Guzman Kosanov and Boris Savchuk) was 39.4 seconds (manual stopwatch) on track 8 only fifth, losing only 0.1 with a prize. The champions were Americans with a world record of 39.0 s.
In 1965, in Kiev, at a match between the USSR and the USA, the Soviet relay four took revenge on the Americans, winning the relay 4 × 100 m with a new USSR record of 39.3. The entire quartet - Edwin Ozolin , Gusman Kosanov, Amin Tuyakov and Nikolai Politiko - received the title of Honored Masters of Sports of the USSR.
Gusman Kosanov has two sons, Marat (born March 26, 1962) and Arman (born January 28, 1971), and two grandchildren Asanali (born September 17, 1999) and Diasali (born July 31, 2001) [2] .
Rewards
G. Kosanov awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor , medal "For Labor Distinction" .
Memory
An international track and field tournament, named in his honor, is annually held in Almaty.
In Semey, the annual cross-country championship of the Republic of Kazakhstan in cross-country among universities and colleges is held, dedicated to the memory of G. Kosanov.
Interesting Facts
In the 100-meter race, Kosanov’s personal record was 10.2 seconds (1962) [3] , which was then a repeat of the USSR record Edwin Ozolin and is still a record for Kazakhstan. The result could only be repeated by Guzman’s colleague in the national teams of the USSR and the Kazakh SSR, the three-time champion of the USSR in 200m running ( 1965 , 1966 and 1967 ) and the then USSR champion in the 200m race - 20.6 seconds (1965) Amin Tuyakov .