Alexander Kosenkow (russian: Александр Косенков; born 14 March 1977) is a German sprinter who specialises in the
100 metres
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.
He represents the sports club
TV Wattenscheid
TV Wattenscheid 01 Leichtathletik is a German sports club focused on athletics. Founded in 1971 in Wattenscheid, Bochum in the Western part of Germany, the club's history is linked to that of an older club, ''Turnverein Wattenscheid 01'', a gymn ...
.
Biography
Kosenkow was born in
Tokmok
Tokmok ( ky, Токмок, lit=hammer; russian: Токмак, Tokmak) is a city in the Chüy Valley, northern Kyrgyzstan, east of the country's capital of Bishkek, with a population of 71,443 in 2021. Its elevation is 816 m above sea level. Fro ...
,
Kirghiz SSR
The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirghiz SSR; ky, Кыргыз Советтик Социалисттик Республикасы, Kyrgyz Sovettik Sotsialisttik Respublikasy, ky, Кыргыз ССР, Kyrgyz SSR, russian: Киргизск ...
, but represented
Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Germany competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. A total of 439 athletes were nominated to participate in the Games. The German Olympic Sports Confederation (german: Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund, ''DOSB'') no ...
in
Beijing
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.
He competed at the
4 × 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the individ ...
together with
Tobias Unger
Tobias Benjamin Unger (born 10 July 1979 ) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in sprints. ,
Till Helmke
Till Helmke (born May 6, 1984 in Friedberg, Hesse) is a male track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Germany. and
Martin Keller. In their qualification heat they placed third behind
Jamaica
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and
Canada
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, but in front of
China
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. Their time of 38.93 was the sixth fastest out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final. There they sprinted to a time of 38.58 seconds, which was the fifth time.
Achievements
Personal bests
* 100 m: 10.14 s (2003) - seventh on the German all-time list, behind
Frank Emmelmann
Frank Emmelmann (born 15 September 1961 in Groß Börnecke, Saxony-Anhalt) is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.
Biography
In 1981 he was 2nd in the European cup final in the 100 metres, to the 1980 Mosc ...
,
Thomas Schröder,
Sven Matthes
Sven Matthes (born 23 August 1969
GBR Athletics, accessed 13 June 2008
,
Eugen Ray
Eugen Ray (26 July 1957, in Gerbstedt, Bezirk Halle, East Germany – 18 January 1986, in Leipzig, East Germany) was an East German sprinter who ran in the 100 metres and 200 metres.
Biography
Ray established himself in the elite of world spri ...
,
Steffen Bringmann
Steffen Bringmann (born 11 March 1964 in Leipzig) is a retired East Germany, East German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.
Biography
At the 1986 European Championships in Athletics, 1986 European Championships he won silver medals in ...
and
Marc Blume
Marc Blume (born 28 December 1973 in Lüdinghausen) is a German sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres.
Biography
He is the twin brother of Holger Blume. Both represented the sports club TV Wattenscheid
TV Wattenscheid 01 Leichtathletik ...
.
* 200 m: 20.55 s (2004)
See also
*
German all-time top lists - 100 metres
References
External links
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1977 births
Living people
People from Chüy Region
German male sprinters
German people of Kyrgyzstani descent
German national athletics champions
Olympic athletes of Germany
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
European Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany
Russian and Soviet-German people