Anna Kozak

Hanna Cossack (White Russian Ганна Козак, English transcription Hannah Kozak, . Born June 22, 1974 in Nowalukoml, Wizebskaja Woblasz ) is a Belarusian sprinter who specializes in the 400 -meter run.

Overall, it was seven times national champion (1994-1998, 2001, 2005 ).

In 1994 she retired from the European Championships in Helsinki in the flow. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, she reached the quarter-finals. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1998, she came again do not have the preliminaries out, and at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton in 2001 and in Helsinki in 2005 she reached the quarter-finals respectively.

In the 4 x 400 meters relay she left with the Belarusian team at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in the flow. At the European Championships in 2002 they came up with the Byelorussian quartet to sixth place, and in 2004 she won along with Natallja Salahub, Ilona Ussowitsch and Swjatlana Ussowitsch silver at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest. Two years later the Belarusian relay bronze won at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2006 ( in the cast Salahub, Cossack, Juljana Schalnjaruk and Ilona Ussowitsch ) and silver at the European Championships in Gothenburg ( in the cast Schalnjaruk, Swjatlana Ussowitsch, Cossack, Ilona Ussowitsch ).

In 2008, the Belarusian team with Cossack, Iryna Chljustawa and the two Ussowitschs again won silver at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia. In the same occupation, the team came in the summer at the Olympic Games in Beijing to fourth place.

Personal Best

• 400 m: 50.94 s, June 1, 1996, Madrid Hall: 52.96 s, January 26, 2008 Mogilev