Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Gussakow

	Nikolai Gusakov
Full name	Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Gussakow ; Николай Николаевич Гусаков
nation	Soviet Union
birthday	May 14, 1934
place of birth	Petrozavodsk , Karelian ASSR
size	170 cm
date of death	December 14, 1991
Place of death	St. Petersburg , Russia
Career
society	CSKA Leningrad
Medal table
winter Olympics
Soviet championships

Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Gussakow ( Russian: Николай Николаевич Гусаков ; born May 14, 1934 in Petrozavodsk , † December 14, 1991 in St. Petersburg ) was a Soviet Nordic combined .

Career

Gussakow, who was married to the Olympic champion Marija Ivanovna , made his first international appearance at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . In the individual competition on the normal hill and over 15 kilometers, he took a strong seventh place. In February 1957 he reached third place at the Salpausselkä ski games in Lahti . In the same place he finished eighth at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1958 . In addition, he won the combined competition of the international ski competitions in Le Brassus in 1958 before Gunder Gundersen . He celebrated his greatest success at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley when he won the bronze medal. His mileage, which was decisive for his success after tenth place in the special jumping event, was particularly noticeable. In 1961 Gussakow became the first non-Scandinavian athlete to win at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in Oslo . At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane in 1962 , he finished 30th. In contrast, he narrowly missed the medal ranks as fourth at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck .

At the national level, he won the Soviet championship title in 1958. In 1960 he was second in Tomsk behind Dmitri Kotschkin .

After his death in 1993, Gussakov was buried in the sand cemetery in his native town. In October 2013, a monument was inaugurated for him in Petrozavodsk.

statistics

Participation in Winter Olympics

Year and place	Single NK
Italy 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	07th
United States 1960 Squaw Valley	03.
Austria 1964 Innsbruck	04th

Participation in Nordic World Ski Championships

Year and place	Single NK
Finland 1958 Lahti	08th.
Poland 1962 Zakopane	30th

Web links

Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Gussakow in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Nikolai Nikolaevich Gussakow on Olympic.org - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Gussakow in the Olympedia.org database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Results Lahti Ski Games 1957 , on lahdenmuseot.fi, accessed on September 29, 2019.
^ Soviet combined victory in Le Brassus , in: Passauer Neue Presse , issue No. 8 of Monday, January 13, 1958.
↑ Best combiner: Kotschkin , in: Berliner Zeitung , issue No. 77 from March 22, 1960.
↑ ^a ^b Памятник карельскому спортсмену Николаю Гусакову (Monument to the Karelian athlete Nikolai Gusakov) , on skimjumping.rus, from October 20, 2013, accessed on December 2, 2019 (in Russian).

personal data
SURNAME	Gussakow, Nikolai Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Гусаков, Николай Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet nordic combiner
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Petrozavodsk , Karelian ASSR
DATE OF DEATH	December 14, 1991
Place of death	St. Petersburg , Russia

[1] Results Lahti Ski Games 1957 , on lahdenmuseot.fi, accessed on September 29, 2019.

[2] Soviet combined victory in Le Brassus , in: Passauer Neue Presse , issue No. 8 of Monday, January 13, 1958.

[3] Best combiner: Kotschkin , in: Berliner Zeitung , issue No. 77 from March 22, 1960.

[Denkmal-4] Памятник карельскому спортсмену Николаю Гусакову (Monument to the Karelian athlete Nikolai Gusakov) , on skimjumping.rus, from October 20, 2013, accessed on December 2, 2019 (in Russian).