Kazakhstan at the 1996 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	KAZ
Nocname:	National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1996
Website:
Location:	Atlanta
Competitors:	96 (72 men and 24 women)
Sports:	14
Flagbearer:	Yermakhan Ibraimov
Rank:	24
Gold:	3
Silver:	4
Bronze:	4
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1996
See also:	(1900–1912) (1952–1988) (1992)

Kazakhstan competed in the Summer Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Previously, Kazakhstani athletes competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics. 96 competitors, 72 men and 24 women, took part in 99 events in 14 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's light-heavyweight
			Men's individual
			Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg
			Men's flyweight
			Men's 50 metre rifle three positions
			Men's 50 metre rifle prone
			Men's 99 kg
			Men's light-welterweight
			Men's light-middleweight
			Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol
			Men's freestyle 52 kg

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Kazakhstan sent six archers to Atlanta. Only one, Vadim Chikarev, won a match in the individual round. Chikarev had competed on the Unified Team in Barcelona. The women's team defeated the United States in the team round.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Anna Mozhar – Round of 64, 37th place (0–1)
• Irina Leonova – Round of 64, 52nd place (0–1)
• Yana Touniiantse – Round of 64, 58th place (0–1)

Men's Individual Competition:

• Vadim Chikarev – Round of 32, 30th place (1–1)
• Vitaliy Shin – Round of 64, 33rd place (0–1)
• Sergei Martynov – Round of 64, 43rd place (0–1)

Women's Team Competition:

• Mozhar, Leonova, and Touniiantse – Quarterfinal, 8th place (1–1)

Men's Team Competition:

• Chikarev, Shin, and Martynov – Round of 16, 13th place (0–1)

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 100 metres

• Vitaliy Savin
• Vitaly Medvedev

Men's 20 km Walk

• Valeriy Borisov

Men's 50 km Walk

• Sergey Korepanov – 3:48:42 (→ 8th place)

Men's Pole Vault

• Igor Potapovich

Men's Triple Jump

• Sergey Arzamasov

Men's Shot Put

• Sergey Rubtsov

Women's 100 metres

• Nataliya Vorobyova

• Heat - 11.91 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400 metres

• Svetlana Bodritskaya

• Heat – 53.24 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400m Hurdles

• Natalya Torshina

• Qualification – 55.94 (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump

• Yelena Pershina

• Qualification – 6.50m (→ did not advance)
• Yelena Koshcheyeva

• Qualification – 5.55m (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Svetlana Zalevskaya

• Qualification – 1.93m

• Final – 1.93m (→ 14th place)

Women's Shot Put

• Qualification – 16.40m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

• Svetlana Kazanina

• Final Result – 6002 points (→ 18th place)

Women's 10 km Walk

• Svetlana Tolstaya – 45:35 (→ 21st place)
• Maya Sazonova – 47:33 (→ 35th place)

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Flyweight ( - 51 kg)

• Bolat Dzhumadilov → Silver Medal
  1. First Round – Defeated Vladislav Neiman (Israel), 18–7
  2. Second Round – Defeated Serhiy Kovganko (Ukraine), 21–4
  3. Quarterfinals – Defeated Damaen Kelly (Ireland), 13–6
  4. Semifinals – Defeated Zoltan Lunka (Germany), 23–18
  5. Final – Lost to Maikro Romero (Cuba), 11–12

Men's Bantamweight ( - 54 kg)

• Bektas Abubakirov
  1. First Round – Lost to Rachid Bouaita (France), 4–10

Men's Featherweight ( - 57 kg)

• Bakhtiyar Tileganov
  1. First Round – Lost to Floyd Mayweather (United States), referee stopped contest in second round

Men's Light Welterweight ( - 63.5 kg)

• Bolat Niyazymbetov → Bronze Medal
  1. First Round – Defeated Carlos Martínez (Mexico), 25–3
  2. Second Round – Defeated Davis Mwale (Zambia), 11–3
  3. Quarterfinals – Defeated Moghimi Babak (Iran), 13–8
  4. Semifinals – Lost to Héctor Vinent (Cuba), 6–23

Men's Welterweight ( - 67 kg)

• Nurzhan Smanov
  1. First Round – Defeated Lynden Hosking (Australia), referee stopped contest in second round
  2. Second Round – Defeated Abdul Rasheed Baloch (Pakistan), 13–9
  3. Quarterfinals – Lost to Juan Hernández Sierra (Cuba), 8–16

Men's Light Middleweight ( - 71 kg)

• Yermakhan Ibraimov → Bronze Medal
  1. First Round – Defeated Nick Farrell (Canada), 15–4
  2. Second Round – Defeated Hendrik Simangunsong (Indonesia), referee stopped contest in first round
  3. Quarterfinals – Defeated Markus Beyer (Germany), 19–9
  4. Semifinals – Lost to Alfredo Duvergel (Cuba), 19–28

Men's Light Heavyweight ( - 81 kg)

• Vassili Jirov → Gold Medal
  1. First Round – Defeated Julio González (Mexico), referee stopped contest in second round
  2. Second Round – Defeated Pietro Aurino (Italy), 18–13
  3. Quarterfinals – Defeated Troy Amos-Ross (Canada), 14–8
  4. Semifinals – Defeated Antonio Tarver (United States), 15–9
  5. Final – Defeated Lee Seung-Bae (South Korea), 17–4

Men's Super Heavyweight (+ 91 kg)

• Mikhail Yurchenko
  1. First Round – Bye
  2. Second Round – Lost to Alexei Lezin (Russia), referee stopped contest in first round

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Road competition

Men's Individual Road Race

• Andrey Kivilev
• Alexander Vinokourov
• Aleksandr Shefer
• Andrey Teteryuk

Women's Individual Road Race

• Final – did not finish (→ no ranking)

Track competition

Men's Points Race

• Sergey Lavrenenko

• Final – 7 points (→ 10th place)

Men's Individual Pursuit (4,000 metres)

• Vadim Kravchenko

Women's Points Race

• Alla Vasilenko

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Women's 3m Springboard

• Irina Vyguzova

• Preliminary Heat – 276.45

• Semi Final – 202.86

• Final – 273.06 (→ 10th place)
• Yelena Ivanova

• Preliminary Heat – 235.50

• Semi Final – 187.20 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Women's 10m Platform

• Irina Vyguzova

• Preliminary Heat – 319.11

• Semi Final – 158.40

• Final – 274.20 (→ 7th place)

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. One male fencer represented Kazakhstan in 1996.

Men's foil

• Vyacheslav Grigoryev

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Half-Lightweight

• Sergey Akhirov

Men's Lightweight

• Akhat Akhirov

Men's Half-Middleweight

• Ruslan Seilkhanov

Men's Middleweight

• Sergey Alimzhanov

Men's Half-Heavyweight

• Sergey Shakimov

Men's Heavyweight

• Igor Peshkov

Women's Half-Middleweight

• Valentina Kamsulyeva

Women's Half-Heavyweight

• Yevgeniya Bogunova

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Individual Competition:

• Alexandre Paryguin – 5551 pts (→ Gold Medal)
• Dmitriy Tyurin – 3878 pts (→ 31st place)

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol (25 metres)

• Vladimir Vokhmyanin

Men's Air Rifle (10 metres)

• Sergey Belyayev

Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions (50 metres)

• Sergey Belyayev

Men's Small-Bore Rifle Prone (50 metres)

• Sergey Belyayev

Men's Running Target (10 metres)

• Yury Rodnov

Women's Air Pistol (10 metres)

• Galina Belyayeva
• Yuliya Bondareva

Women's Sporting Pistol (25 metres)

• Yuliya Bondareva
• Galina Belyayeva

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 50 m Freestyle

• Sergey Borisenko

• Heat – 23.29 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Men's 100 m Freestyle

• Aleksey Yegorov

• Heat – 50.49 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Aleksey Yegorov

• Heat – 1:51.66 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Sergey Ushkalov

• Heat – 58.41 (→ did not advance, 41st place)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

• Aleksandr Savitsky

• Heat – 1:05.85 (→ did not advance, 38th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Andrey Gavrilov

• Heat – 54.56 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

• Aleksandr Savitsky

• Heat – 2:08.78 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

• Sergey Borisenko, Aleksey Khovrin, Sergey Ushkalov, and Aleksey Yegorov

• Heat – DSQ (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

• Heat – 3:49.51 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

• Yevgeniya Yermakova

• Heat  - 25.97

• B-Final – 26.06 (→ 13th place)

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Light-Heavyweight

• Rishat Mansurov

• Final – 155.0 + 182.5 = 337.5 (→ 10th place)
• Kuanysh Rymkulov

• Final – DNS (→ no ranking)

Notes

• Book: The Official Report of the Centennial Olympic Games, Volume III The Competition Results . (ed.) Watkins, Ginger T. . Peachtree Publishers . Atlanta . 1997 . 1-56145-150-9 . PDF . 2008-02-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222634/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3.pdf . 2007-09-27 .
• Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 2008-02-13.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kazakhstan at the 1996 Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417044237/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/KAZ/summer/1996/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2012-02-16 . sports-reference.com.