Viktor Kakoschyn
Viktor Oleksandrowytsch Kakoschyn ( Ukrainian Віктор Олександрович Какошин ; born October 11, 1957 in Kiev ) is a former Soviet rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in eighth in 1980 .
Athletic career
The 1.92 m tall rower from Dynamo Kiev was a member of the Soviet eight that won the bronze medal behind the boats from the GDR and New Zealand at the 1979 World Championships in Bled. This eighth competed in the line-up of Viktor Kakoschyn, Ihar Majstrenka , Oleksandr Manzewytsch , Vitali Moroz , Andrei Ruditsin , Oleksandr Tkachenko , Andrij Tyschtschenko , Andrei Luhin and helmsman Hryhorij Dmytrenko .
Before the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Jonas Pinskus and Jonas Narmontas joined Moroz and Ruditsin. In the Olympic regatta, the Soviet eighth won the first run ahead of the British, in the other run the eighth from the GDR qualified directly for the final. The other four finalists reached the final via the reunion runs. In the final, the eighth from the GDR won with almost three seconds ahead of the British. 0.74 seconds behind the British, the Soviet eighth crossed the finish line one second ahead of the fourth-placed boat from Czechoslovakia.
Web links
- Viktor Kakoschyn at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Viktor Kakoschyn in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ World Championships in figure eight on sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 777
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| SURNAME | Kakoschyn, Viktor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kakoschyn, Viktor Oleksandrovytsch (full name); Какошин, Віктор Олександрович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Ukrainian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiev |