Mikhail Krywanossau

Mikhail Krywanossau
Full name	Mikhail Pyatrovich Krywanossau
nation	Soviet Union Belarusian SSR
birthday	May 1, 1929
place of birth	Krytschau , Soviet Union
size	189 cm
Weight	90 kg
job	Trainer, university professor
date of death	November 11, 1995
Place of death	Krytschau, Belarus
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	67.32 m (October 22, 1956 in Tashkent )
society	Iskra Minsk, Burewestnik Minsk
Trainer	Yevgeny Shukevich
End of career	1958
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Melbourne 1956 63.03 m  European championships gold Berm 1954 63.34 m silver Stockholm 1958 63.78 m
last change: April 4, 2020

Mikhail Pjatrowitsch Krywanossau ( Belarusian Міхаіл Пятровіч Крываносаў , Russian Михаил Петрович Кривоносов Mikhail Petrovich Krivonosov ., English transcription Mikhail Krivonosov, * 1. May 1929 in Krychaw , BSSR ; † 11. November 1995 the same place) was a Soviet - Belarussian hammer thrower , who in was successful in the 1950s. He became European champion in 1954 and won the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He also improved the world record in hammer throw several times.

Athletic career

Michail Krywanossau is considered the first great hammer thrower in the Soviet Union. Until the Second World War, this competition was mainly dominated by athletes from the United States, before a decades-long dominance of athletes from the Soviet Union began. With the victory at the Soviet championships in 1952, he qualified for the first time for participation in the Olympic Games in Helsinki , where he went straight to the final , but in which he failed a valid attempt. Two years later he won the European Championships in Bern , where he set a new world record with a width of 63.34 m and improved the old record of the Norwegian Sverre Strandli by almost a meter. This record only lasted a few months before it was replaced as the record holder on December 12, 1954 by his compatriot Stanislaw Nenaschew . Krywanossau was able to counter the following year, however, and won the World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw with a throw of 64.33 m and thus regained the world record. Later that year he improved the record in Belgrade to 64.52 m and in 1956 in Nalchik to 65.85 m, in Minsk to 66.38 m, and then he set his last world record in Tashkent with 67.32 m, which lasted for about a month when he was replaced by the American Hal Connolly . He and the American athlete were also the top favorites for the Olympic Games in Melbourne in November , where the Belarusian was left behind with 63.03 m in the final and thus won the silver medal behind Connolly. In 1958 he took part again in the European Championships in Stockholm and won the silver medal there with 63.78 m, this time behind the Pole Tadeusz Rut . He then ended his active career as a professional athlete.

In the years between 1952 and 1954 to 1958 Krywanossau was the Soviet hammer throw champion.

Career

After finishing his active career, Krywanossau worked as a coach for the Soviet Union and was national coach for the respective Olympic Games in 1968 and 1972. He was also a lecturer at the Belarusian State University of Physical Culture in Minsk and was vice-rector of the university from 1976 until his death in 1995.

Personal

Krywanossau had an older sister and, in addition to athletics, was an avid swimmer and cross-country skier. He graduated from the Belarusian State University of Physical Culture in 1953 with a degree in pedagogy and received a doctorate in 1971. He died on November 11, 1995 at the age of 65 in his hometown of Krytschau .

Awards

• Order of Lenin : 1957

Web links

• Mikhail Krywanossau in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Michail Krywanossau in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on sportedu.by (Belarusian)