Grigory Georgievich Kosych

Grigori Kossych medal table
Sport shooting
Soviet Union Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	Mexico City 1968	Free pistol 50 m
World championships
gold	Cairo 1962	Free pistol (M)
gold	Wiesbaden 1966	Free pistol (M)
gold	Phoenix 1970	Free pistol (M)
bronze	Phoenix 1970	Large caliber pistol (M)
gold	Phoenix 1970	Air pistol 10 m (M)
gold	Thun 1974	Air pistol 10 m
gold	Thun 1974	Free pistol (M)
gold	Thun 1974	Air pistol 10 m (M)

Grigori Georgijewitsch Kossych ( Russian Григорий Георгиевич Косых ; born February 9, 1934 in Oral , Kazakh SSR ; † February 23, 2012 in Moscow ) was a Soviet sports shooter .

successes

Grigori Kossych took part in three Olympic Games in competition with the free pistol . At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City he scored 562 points and together with Heinz Mertel placed himself at the top of the competition. In the jump-off, Kossych got the full 30 possible points, Mertel only got 26 points. With that, Kossych was Olympic champion ahead of Mertel and Harald Vollmar . In 1972 in Munich he finished eighth with 555 points, four years later he was seventh in Montreal with 559 points.

At world championships , Kossych secured seven titles: in the team competition with the Free Pistol he was world champion in 1962 in Cairo , 1966 in Wiesbaden , 1970 in Phoenix and 1974 in Thun . In 1970 and 1974 he was also successful with the air pistol team and won his only individual title in 1974 with the air pistol. In 1970 he also took third place in the team competition with the large-caliber pistol. With the free pistol he was European champion in the singles in Bucharest in 1965 and in 1969 in Pilsen , as well as in 1973 in Linz with the air pistol. Kossych won a total of 18 titles at Soviet championships, five of them in individual competitions. He ended his career in 1981 and then worked as a shooting sports coach in Moscow .

Web links

Grigori Kossych in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
Grigori Kossych in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Shooting at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Mixed Free Pistol, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
↑ Shooting at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Mixed Free Pistol, 50 meters Shoot-off for 1st Place. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kossych, Grigory Georgievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kosykh, Grigory (English transcription); Косых, Григорий Георгиевич (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet marksman
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oral , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH	February 23, 2012
Place of death	Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union

[1] Shooting at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Mixed Free Pistol, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .

[2] Shooting at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Mixed Free Pistol, 50 meters Shoot-off for 1st Place. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .