Boris Borisovich Kokorew

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Boris Kokorew medal table
Boris Kokorew (2007)
Boris Kokorew (2007)

Sport shooting

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Olympic games
gold Atlanta 1996 Free pistol 50 m
World championships
gold Mexico City 1985 Air pistol (M)
gold Suhl 1986 Air pistol (M)
gold Budapest 1987 Air pistol (M)
bronze Moscow 1990 Air pistol
gold Moscow 1990 Air pistol (M)
gold Stavanger 1991 Air pistol (M)
silver Milan 1994 Free pistol (M)
silver Barcelona 1998 Free pistol (M)
silver Barcelona 1998 Air pistol (M)
silver Lahti 2002 Free pistol (M)

Boris Borissowitsch Kokorew ( Russian Борис Борисович Кокорев ; born April 20, 1959 in Tbilisi , Georgian SSR ; † October 22, 2018 in Moscow ) was a Russian sports shooter .

successes

Boris Kokorew took part in five Olympic Games . In 1988 he took eighth place with the air pistol in Seoul after successfully qualifying for the final. Four years later he started in Barcelona for the United Team and finished the competition with the air pistol in 22nd place. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , he entered the competition with the free pistol , in which he reached the final with 570 points. In this he scored a further 96.4 points, so that he won the gold medal and became Olympic champion with a total of 666.4 points ahead of Ihar Bassinski and Roberto Di Donna . He finished the 2000 Games in Sydney with the air pistol in 26th place and with the free pistol in twelfth place. When he last participated in the Olympics in Athens in 2004 , he reached the final with the free pistol and finished it in fifth place.

At world championships Kokorew won the title with the air pistol team in Mexico City in 1985 , in Suhl in 1986 , in Budapest in 1987 , in Moscow in 1990 and in Stavanger in 1991 . He also secured silver with her in 1998 in Barcelona . In 1990 he won his only medal in singles with bronze. With the free pistol he won the silver medal in the team competitions in Milan in 1994 , in Barcelona in 1998 and in Lahti in 2002 . He was European champion three times each with the air pistol and the free pistol.

Boris Kokorew had a child. He died in Moscow on October 22, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shooting at the 1988 Seoul Summer Games: Men's Air Pistol, 10 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed November 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Shooting at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games: Men's Air Pistol, 10 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed November 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Shooting at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Free Pistol, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed November 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Air Pistol, 10 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed November 17, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Free Pistol, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed November 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Shooting at the 2004 Athina Summer Games: Men's Free Pistol, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed November 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Олимпийский чемпион по пулевой стрельбе Кокорев скончался на 60-м году жизни. In: ria.ru. October 22, 2018, Retrieved October 17, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Kokorew, Boris Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kokorev, Boris Borisovich (English transcription); Кокорев, Борис Борисович (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian sports shooter
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2018
Place of death Moscow , Russia