Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Pusanow

Nikolai Pushanov
Full name	Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Pusanow
Association	Soviet Union
birthday	April 7, 1938
place of birth	Kyschtym, Soviet Union
date of death	January 2, 2008
Place of death	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Career
society	CSKA Leningrad
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 0 × USSR championships 18 × ? × ? ×
winter Olympics gold 1968 Grenoble Season  Biathlon world championships gold 1962 Hämeenlinna Season silver 1965 Elverum singles silver 1965 Elverum team silver 1967 Altenberg Season Soviet championships gold 1963 singles gold 1967 singles gold 1963 Season
World Cup balance

Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Pusanow ( Russian: Николай Васильевич Пузанов ; born April 7, 1938 in Kyschtym , Chelyabinsk Oblast , former Soviet Union ; † January 2, 2008 in Saint Petersburg , Russia ) was a Soviet biathlete and Olympic champion.

Pusanow was initially a gymnast, only when he was in the army did he start cross-country skiing . At the suggestion of his coach Igor Ivanovich Bulochkin, he switched to biathlon, which was still a young sport in 1960, and started in 1963 for the Central Army Sports Club in Leningrad (CSKA Leningrad). Already at the Biathlon World Cup in 1962 , Pusanov won the gold medal in the then unofficial relay competition together with Vladimir Melanin and Valentin Pschenitsyn . He qualified for the Soviet team at the 1964 Winter Olympics . In Innsbruck only the individual race over 20 km was held, Pusanow was tenth in the victory of his compatriot Wladimir Melanin . Four years later , in addition to the individual, the 4 × 7.5 km biathlon relay was also part of the Olympic program for the first time. In the line-up of Alexander Tichonow , Vladimir Gundarzew , Pusanow and Viktor Mamatow , he won the gold medal in Grenoble with the Soviet relay . In 1972 he narrowly missed qualifying for the Olympic Games in Sapporo .

Even at the Biathlon World Championship in 1965 , the relay silver with Vladimir Melanin and Vasily Makarow was still an unofficial award, but Pusanov won his only individual medal in Elverum when he was only second over 20 km beaten by Norwegian Olav Jordet . Again he won the silver medal with the biathlon relay over 4 × 7.5 km (cast: Tichonow, Mamatow, Safin , Pusanow) at the Biathlon World Championship in Altenberg in 1967 , the competition was an official part of the competition program for the second time that year . In addition, he was the winner of the first Winter Spartakiad in 1962 as well as 18-time Soviet champion and multiple military champion. He was awarded the Honored Master of Sport award, and in 1969 he was awarded the " Sa trudowoje otlitschije " (For special work) medal. In 1970 he graduated from the University of Physical Culture in Saint Petersburg. After that, he worked at the medical military academy in Kirov at the physical institute, he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel . Pusanov was married and had a son and a daughter. He was buried in the Serafimov Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

Web links

• Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Pusanow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Олег Вдовин - Oleg Vdovin: Петербург простился с олимпийским чемпионом Николаем Пузановым (Petersburg goodbye to Olympic champion Nikolai Pusanow) ( Russian ) 8. January 2008. Archived from the original on May 16, 2010. Retrieved on May 3 of 2010.