Ibragim Risoyevich Khasanov (4 November 1937 – 2 March 2010) was a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

sprint canoer Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today ...

, born in Stalinabad, who competed in the early to mid-1960s. Competing in two

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the King ...

, he earned his best finish of fourth in the K-1 1000 m event at

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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...

. Khasanov won a silver medal in the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the

1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Jajce, Yugoslavia (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). This event was held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation. The men's competition consisted of four Canadian (singl ...

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. He was a member of the Dushanbe team of the Spartak voluntary sports society.

References

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Ibrahim Khasanov's profile at Sports Reference.com
1937 births 2010 deaths Sportspeople from Dushanbe Canoeists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for the Soviet Union ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak Soviet male canoeists Tajikistani male canoeists Spartak (sports society) sportspeople Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR {{USSR-canoe-bio-stub