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competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the

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. Previously, Kyrgyz athletes had competed for the

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Results by event

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Men's 100 metres * Vladislav Chernobay Men's 800 metres *

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Men's Marathon * Nazirdin Akilbekov — 2:23:59 (→ 63rd place) Men's 110 metres Hurdles * Yevgeny Shorokhov Men's Triple Jump * Maksim Smetanin Women's Marathon * Irina Bogachova — 2:35.44 (→ 21st place)

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Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg) * Sergey Kopenkin :*First Round — Defeated Cristian Giantomassi (Italy), 12-11 :*Second Round — Lost to Leonard Doroftei (Romania), 1-10 Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg) * Nourbek Kassenov :*First Round — Defeated Shane Heaps (Tonga), 11-2 :*Second Round — Lost to Nariman Atayev (Uzbekistan), 7-11 Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg) * Andrey Kurnyavka :*First Round — Lost to

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(Cuba), 3-9

Canoeing

Men's Kayak Doubles (500 metres) * Andrey Mitkovets * Yury Ulyachenko Men's Kayak Doubles (1,000 metres) * Andrey Mitkovets and Yury Ulyachenko

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Track Competition

Men's Points Race * Yevgeny Vakker :* Final — 1 point (→ 16th place)

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Men's Heavyweight * Vadim Sergeyev Women's Extra-Lightweight * Nataliya Kuligina

Modern Pentathlon

Men's Competition * Igor Feldman – 4547 points (→ 30th place)

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Men's Air Pistol, 10 metres * Yury Melentyev Men's Free Pistol, 50 metres * Yury Melentyev Men's Air Rifle, 10 metres * Yury Lomov Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres * Yury Lomov Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres * Yury Lomov

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Men's 100m Freestyle * Sergey Ashikhmin :* Heat — 51.07 (→ did not advance, 29th place) Men's 400m Freestyle *

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:* Heat — 4:00.69 (→ did not advance, 26th place) Men's 200m Butterfly * Konstantin Andriuchine :* Heat — 2:01.59 (→ did not advance, 26th place) Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay * Sergey Ashikhmin,

, Dmitri Lapine, and Vitaliy Vasilev :* Heat — 3:30.62 (→ did not advance, 18th place) Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay * Sergey Ashikhmin,

, Dmitri Lapine, and Vitaliy Vasilev :* Heat — 8:00.00 (→ did not advance, 17th place) Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay * Konstantin Priahin, Evgeni Petrachov, Konstantin Andriuchine, and Sergey Ashikhmin :* Heat — 3:56.24 (→ did not advance, 21st place) Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay * Viktoria Polejaeva, Olga Titova, Olga Korotaeva, and Olga Bogatyreva :* Heat — 8:45.76 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

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Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight * Raatbek Sanatbayev Men's Freestyle Light-Flyweight * Vladimir Torgovkin Men's Freestyle Heavyweight * Konstantin Aleksandrov Men's Freestyle Super-Heavyweight * Aleksandr Kovalevsky

References

Official Olympic Reportssports-reference
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