Alexander Kosenkow

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Alexander Kosenkow (3rd from left) at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona

Alexander Kosenkow (born March 14, 1977 in Tokmok , Kyrgyz SSR , USSR ) is a German athlete of Kyrgyzstan German origin who has been successful as a 100 and 200 meter runner since the mid-1990s .

Alexander Kosenkow has been working for TV Wattenscheid 01 since 1997 . With a height of 1.78 m, he has a competition weight of 64 kg.

Athletic career

In 1991 Alexander Kosenkow, whose mother is a Kyrgyz German , came to Germany as an emigrant and found a new home in Neuenkirchen-Vörden .

In 1995 he was a bronze medalist at the European Junior Championships with the German 4 x 100 meter relay . From 2001 to 2005 he was a member of the German relay team at the World Championships, but only reached the finals in Helsinki in 2005 and was seventh here.

At the European Championships in Munich in 2002 , he was a member of the German relay team, which took fourth place in 38.88 seconds with Ronny Ostwald , Marc Blume , Kosenkow and Christian Schacht . In 2006 this season was honored retrospectively with the bronze medal, as the British season was disqualified because of the doping case around Dwain Chambers .

At the 2004 Olympic Games Kosenkow failed with the relay in the run-up. In the 100-meter run he reached the intermediate run. Four years later, he reached the final of the 2008 Olympic Games with the relay and finished fifth there.

Kosenkow was German champion over 200 meters in 2001 and over 100 meters in 2003. With the season of TV Wattenscheid 01 (and together with Marc Blume ) he was German champion several times. In 2007 he won the German championship title both indoors over 200 meters and outdoors over 100 meters. Another championship over 200 meters in the hall followed in 2009.

At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona he won the bronze medal together with Tobias Unger , Marius Broening and Martin Keller in the relay with a time of 38.44 s.

At the European championships in Helsinki in 2012 , Kosenkow won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with Julian Reus , Tobias Unger and Lucas Jakubczyk . In the same line-up, they improved the 30-year-old German record to 38.02 s on July 27, 2012. At the 2014 European Championships in Zurich , he won silver again in the relay together with Julian Reus, Sven Knipphals and Lucas Jakubczyk.

It is still active today (as of 2019).

Personal bests

  • 60 meters: 6.62 s (2000)
  • 100 meters: 10.14 s (2003)
  • 200 meters: 20.43 s (2009)
  • 200 meters (hall) 20.65 s (2011)

successes

International

  • 1995: Third in the Junior European Championship (4 × 100 m)
  • 1997: Third in the U23 European Championship (4 × 100 m)
  • 1999: Third in the U23 European Championship (4 × 100 m)
  • 2002: European Championship third (4 × 100 m)
  • 2005: World Cup seventh (4 × 100 m)
  • 2006: European Championship fifth (4 × 100 m)
  • 2007: World Cup sixth (4 × 100 m)
  • 2008: Olympic fifth (4 × 100 m)
  • 2010: European Championship third (4 × 100 m)
  • 2012: European Championship runner-up (4 × 100 m)
  • 2014: European Championship runner-up (4 × 100 m)
  • 2015: fourth place in the World Championship (4 × 100 m)

National

  • 2001: German champion (200 m), second German champion (100 m)
  • 2003: German champion (100 m)
  • 2007: German champion (100 m), German indoor champion (200 m)
  • 2009: Second German champion (200 m), German indoor champion (200 m)
  • 2010: German champion (100 m), German indoor champion (200 m)
  • 2013: Sixth German champion (200 m)
  • 2014: Third German champion (200 m)
  • 2015: Fifth German Champion (200 m)
  • 2016: Sixth German champion (100 m)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maurice Huke and Alexander Kosenkow win sprint titles. Retrieved October 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kosenkow, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokmok , Kyrgyz SSR , USSR