Background
Kosenkow was born in Tokmok, Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, but represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Kosenkow was born in Tokmok, Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, but represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
He represents the sports club television Wattenscheid. He competed at the 4 × 100 metres relay together with Tobias Unger, Till Helmke and Martin Keller. In their qualification heat they placed third behind Jamaica and Canada, but in front of China.
Their time of 38.93 was the sixth fastest out of sixteen participating nations in the first round and they qualified for the final.
There they sprinted to a time of 38.58 seconds, which was the fifth time. Personal bests 100 m: 10.14 s (2003) - seventh on the German all-time list, behind Frank Emmelmann, Thomas Schröder, Sven Matthes, Eugen Ray, Steffen Bringmann and Marc Blume.