Gusman Kosanov

Gusman Kossanow (Russian Гусман Косанов, English transcription Gusman Kosanov, . Born May 25, 1935 in Semipalatinsk, † July 19, 1990 in Almaty ) was a Kazakh sprinter who competed for the Soviet Union.

At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 he reached the quarter-finals in the 100 meters. In the 4 x 100 - meter relay team, he won the Soviet team in the cast Kossanow, Leonid Bartenew, Yuri Konovalov and Edwin Osolin the silver medal in 40.1 s behind the German relay race, with 39.5 s a world record aufstellte.

In 1964, he retired at the Olympic Games in Tokyo from over 100 meters in the flow and came up with the Soviet team in the 4 x 100 - meter relay to fifth place.